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PRODUCTION TOUR

KOLLMANN MONUMENTAL WORKS, INC. ››› PRODUCTION TOUR

Polishing the granite slabs

slab polishing machine

5) The slabs go to our polishing machine to

have both sides polished for a typical polished 2

monument. We first have to polish one side of

the slab which takes 1/2 a day, then we flip the

slab over to polish the backside. We typically

have the polishing bed full of slabs, slants and

other various polishing jobs to keep machine busy.

The slab polishing process involves the use of

several different grits of diamond polishing bricks.

We start with a low grit brick that grinds all of the

the saw marks out of the slab and prepares the

surface for the bricks to follow. The last set

of bricks are extremely high grit that bring out the

full color, depth and crystal structure of the stone.

Cutting the memorial to shape

Marvin cutting stone with pitching tool

7) Our stonecutter uses a hammer and special hand

tools to cut the granite to shape. He often uses

templates and chalk outlines as a guide to help him

create the needed shape.

Splitting the slab

tony preparing stone for splitting

6) We need to split the slabs into smaller memorials,

we do this by using our hydraulic splitter. The

splitter takes off the excess granite and gets the

piece ready to be cut to shape by our stone cutter.

Laying out the memorial for sandblasting

ed laying out stone

8) Layout is comprised of us putting the stencil on
     the blank memorial to get the stone ready to be
     sandblasted. This is not an easy task since we
     need to make sure that the stencil is laid out
     perfectly to match the customers order ticket.

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