Dennis carter founder and owner of deer isle hostel in maine uses a two pound hammer to split a 26 000 pound granite block in half.
Can copper cut granite.
The slides are in no particular order but you can see the cut panels covered with sticky plastic for protection we used a 3m spray adhesive to glue the copper to a 1 4 plywood backer.
The evidence is cut into the stone what we also have to take into consideration is that most of the boxes in the serapeum were made of granite and most likely stone brought from the quarry at aswan about 500 miles from saqqara.
Copper bronze and iron are insufficiently in terms of indentation hardness to cut by abrasion hard stones such as basalt diorite granite greywacke schist and siliceous sandstone quartzite.
Hubby had to cut holes for the electrical outlets and in they went.
A harder material than the metal itself is required as an abrasive in order to cut these rocks.
Not only that but the lid of each box was cut from the same stone as the box itself.
Today quarrymen cut and carve granite using saws with diamond edged blades and steel chisels.
Used a fine grit steel wool to clean and begin the patina process.
The reflectivity of copper that may be an issue for lasers is not a problem for an omax abrasive waterjet.
To split the granite chisels forged from wrought iron were used doctrine the same tools as for limestone are used this is to say tools made from copper 2.
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To achieve a smooth surface the stone is split along a row of holes because granite splits relatively smoothly the stones have to be burnished and polished only slightly doctrine the granite is sawed with copper saws.
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Cut granite slab outdoors if possible to simplify cleanup.
Cutting granite countertops is a breeze with an abrasive waterjet and you don t have to worry about chipping like you would with a saw.
Setting aside the fringe community explanation of using alien technology it was most likely done through elbow grease and perseverance and ingenuity.
But ancient egyptian quarrymen and stonemasons didn t have these modern tools.
This is a very interesting question.
The hardest metal that the egyptians possessed was copper.