Saltydoghayden

Ive got a character that is a Stone Mason.
The thing Is I want his name to be something that relates to Stone masonary.

doesw anyone have any ideas? like what equiptment they use or something that i could use for a name?

Ozmandius

I'm a sculptor by trade, and although I don't work in stone myself, I am reasonably familiar with the techniques.

The only stone related word that leaps to mind is Lithos. It's a Greek word meaning stone and it is a root of the word lithograph; meaning a print made by pressing paper against a carved stone covered in ink.

As for the tools of the trade, well that really depends on the time frame. Modern sculptors of course use iron chisels, hammers, and wedges. But the ancient Egyptians and others created incredible works of art without the use of iron. To split large blocks of stone they set fires on top of the stone to weaken the stress points and then hammered with harder stones until the block broke at the fault line. Smaller stones were then used to grind in the details.

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mammamaia

well, there's a news anchor named 'stone phillips'!

how 'bout:

hardy cutter
chip carver
spike hammer
doug dado
pat plinth
sam stele
buster fullstein
lane cobble
rock waller

and so on...

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Nimbus1944

Barney Rubble comes to mind, but it's been done..

One rock-related name has been around at least 2000 years: Peter.

What era is your builder living in? The best stone craftsmen today seem to be recent Italian immigrants, and the laborers predominently Hispanic. A few decades ago they might have been English or Irish; the mason who owned my house and built its stone chimney was a McMahon. For foreign-language words, try http://www.wordreference.com/ .

A nickname of "Cap" for the capstone might fit. A stone providing good support, but not pretty enough for the front of a wall, was a "Backer." A stone wall in Irish is claí.

The era would also determine what tools he uses. Through the 19th century in rural America, the stones might have been transported on a stone-boat (sled), fitted using a mason's hammer, and measured with a Gunter's chain or a perch-pole.

Two excellent books on stone walls, which would give you lots of background:
Susan Allport, Sermons In Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
Kevin Gardner, The Granite Kiss: Traditions and Techniques of Building New England Stone Walls

For old tools, terms and techniques, see the books of Eric Sloane.

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Philo

Its masonry, like carpentry. I assume this is a typo, but I hear lots of folks pronounce it with the 'a' sound as well.

In any case, I design buildings for a living so I specify stone now and again. I've got some terms you might like so I'll babble on a bit about what I know with an eye toward using lots of terms.

Stone is laid up in bed joints and end joints of Portland cement mortar, and the joints are then pointed or tooled when nearly set. Various bond patterns include; ashlar (Stone thats been squared and dressed,) coursed rubble, random rubble etc... Walls can be laid up, solid (backed) or as a veneer which is anchored to a back-up wall made of brick, block, or sheathed studs.

Stone comes in three basic groups: Igneous (volcanic, e.g.,Basalt, Granite) Sedimentary (compressed sand, shells, etc, e.g., Limestone, Sandstone) and Metamorphic (reconstituted, e.g., marble, slate, schist) All of these stones are quarried for the building industry. There are others as well.

Stone can be finished in a variety of ways including, rusticated or pitched, peaned, bush-hammered, crandalled, plucked, honed, flamed and polished.

Some arbitrary stone masonry terms: Lintel, reglet, quirk, corbel, dowel, anchor, cramp, dolmen, slab, staging, flashing, trowel, hammer and chisel.

Thats all I can think of, send me a PM if you want me to explain in further detail any of the terms or methods I've described.

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Flint
Rocky
Rocco
Fleck

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Mystery

Petre, in greek and latin Petra means stone, also try
Votsallo is pebble
lithos - generally rock

Another good name Is Mega Litharia(Mega short of Meagen) which measn great stone.

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deafmute

Ashlar thats a pretty good one I think, Philo.

If his ancestry is important, maybe picking a name from there? There are many occupational surnames.

Maurer, a German surname means stone mason. There's also the -stein suffix from "stone". Steinhauer: one who cuts and breaks stone. Berg, Berger, from mountain...as in Erzberger for ore mountain or Schwarzberg, black mountain. Et al, et al.

Many european cultures did this French, Norse, Scottish. Some are more patrynomic than others (the Spanish) but still a good potential source.

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