The Art & Craft of Stonework: Dry-Stacking, Mortaring, Paving, Carving, Gardenscaping
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Book Overview
More than 300 outstanding photos highlight the expressiveness of stonework from New Jersey to Nepal. "Well written and beautifully illustrated...wonderful. Shows readers a variety of techniques used to shape and place stones in their yards [and] ideas for creating paths and walls. Provides much information on actually building things."- Library Journal.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:157990520X
ISBN13:9781579905200
Release Date:August 2003
Publisher:Lark Books (NC)
Length:176 Pages
Weight:1.51 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.6" x 10.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
The tips you need to complete your visions
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This is like a dictionary of stonework. You can find any details you need to complete a project easily. Great for people that need to know how to do stonework in a short period of time.
The best stone masonry book in my collection
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Probably the best book I own on stone masonry. I bought a lot of stone-masonry/stone-scaping books over the past 5 years and most of them do not come anywhere close. These books have a good chapter or two, or maybe some good photography, but most of them fail in one respect or another. Reed's book is very good throughout and is very suitable for both beginners and pros. An excellent section on tools and basic techniques. Detailed chapters on free-standing walls, retaining walls, single/two-faced walls, dry-stack/mortared, hidden-joint/visible-joint, dry/wet paving. The author could probably improve the book (for the beginners) by adding a chapter on stone types with good pictures illustrating the various types of stone as well as examples of walls with different stone/technique combinations.Anyway, I own most of the other books listed on the "Customers who bought this book also bought..." page and this is the one to get. Overall, if you plan on getting involved with stone you should own this book.
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