Filo diamantato manuale
A manually guided diamond-wire cutting method used in marble work to make controlled cuts through stone.
Methods
Frullino
A common Italian workshop term for a small powered grinder, typically an angle grinder, used with cutting, grinding, or abrasive attachments in stone carving.
Contornatrice
A contour-cutting machine used in stone workshops to follow profiles and remove material around the outline of a form.
Smodellatura
The stage in model-based marble carving that brings the roughed block toward the essential lines, major forms, dimensions, and proportions of the final sculpture through measured transfer from a model or bozzetto.
Capopunto
A principal reference point transferred from the model to an enlarged or copied sculpture; it establishes the fixed framework from which additional measured points are located.
Croce a T
A T-shaped support used with a pointing apparatus to establish three fixed reference points between a model and its stone copy.
Punciotto
A traditional steel plug-and-feather splitting set used to detach marble during roughing by driving a tapered wedge between two shaped metal feathers placed in drilled holes.
Sassofono
A workshop nickname for a polishing grinder whose shape protects angular areas of marble while carrying abrasive and cloth polishing attachments.
Stampetta
A long round-section steel tool with a rosette-shaped point, worked by percussion and rotation to excavate holes and small depressions in stone.
Macchinetta
The traditional three-point pointing machine used to reproduce a sculpture at 1:1 scale by transferring measured surface coordinates from a model to stone.