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familiar, and therefore faster, with our scutch hammers. We therefore used the
Brick axes to carefully dress the brick faces to the specified finish by carefully
chopping across and along the brick faces to create a series of parallel blade
marks that were diagonal across the plain or flat faces, and straight on the
convex or concave curved profiles (Fig. 28). These axes held-up pretty well but
occasionally needed to be re-sharpened so that they had the keen cutting edge
necessary to create the 'axing' marks; and this was done by us using the fine
grit stone.
Figure 28
Finished remedial
work at Kirby Muxloe
Castle showing the
axing marks on the cut-
moulded jamb bricks to
match the original.
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