KOPELOV CUT STONE, INC.

BERNALILLO, NEW MEXICO

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Niles Bement lathe
Capacity: 5 ft diameter, 16 ft length Lathe — turning column
16 inch diameter, limestone Cincinnati planer
Planing limestone sill Planing profile
Sespe brownstone Wire saw
4 ft x 10 ft quarry block Wire saw
Cutting 6" x 6" granite blanks for curbing Cantilever cut-off saw
For ripping and special angle cuts Hand chiseling
Pitched face with sunken draft Carving
"Egg and Dart" molding Carving studio

Stone Fabrication
Tools and Equipment

Stone Fabrication

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We use modern machinery to cut quarry blocks to specific dimensions for further operations. This reduces the labor involved in the “roughing out” process, and enables us to hand-carve stone details with traditional methods.

The adjacent photos show some of our equipment in use. The machines, listed below, help us produce items such as columns, cornices, and moldings.

  • Lathe: The Niles Bement can accommodate stones up to 5 feet in diameter of limited length. We can turn smaller diameter units up to 16 feet long.

  • Planers: The Niles Bement can profile and mill pieces up to 4 ft x 4 ft x 16 ft long. The Cincinnati has a 3 ft x 3 ft x 8 ft capacity and is primarily used for moldings and line finishes.

  • Saws and Hand Tools: The wire-saw is used to cut large blocks to size for the lathe, planers, and cut-off saw. Further refinement is carried out using hand and pneumatic carving tools.

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