A common Italian workshop name for a handheld angle grinder used with cutting, grinding, sanding, and diamond discs in stone carving.
Flessibile is a common Italian workshop name for the handheld angle grinder. The term is specifically indexed in the Pietrasanta interviews of Le voci del marmo.
It overlaps with smerigliatrice angolare, the formal technical term, and with the colloquial frullino used in some workshops.
Etymology
Italian flessibile, literally “flexible”; established workshop usage for an angle grinder.
Sculptor Notes
This synonym is worth preserving because it is exactly the sort of word an English-speaking sculptor may hear in an Italian studio. Knowing that flessibile, frullino, and smerigliatrice angolare can refer to closely related tools prevents needless confusion.
References
https://levocidelmarmo.sns.it/lista_times.php