carving.mov transcript:
"These lines are clean but where the tool bit - where the knife cuts to the centre, it's all broken off into little very rough pieces and that's because the stone is grainy . . . Also if I were to cut against the grain although the stone is very soft the knife would just bounce off the stone because it would go into the grain rather than just lifting it up. Here's an example of a grain piece here. That just jumped off because I struck it in such a way that the grain was lifted and broke off."

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