What types of stone carving grinding tools are used for landscape boulders?

1. stone carving mold

It is generally used for the production of master molds for large landscape boulders products, because Stone Carving molds have high heat resistance, small thermal conductivity of materials, good copyability, and low prices. Therefore, some relief sculptures with simple lines and small and medium-sized round sculptures often use stone carving molds. But everyone knows that stone carving products are fragile, stone carving molds are not durable, and dry very slowly. They should be placed in a stable place to avoid breaking.

2. Rubber mold
It is generally used for the production of complex reliefs, round sculptures and certain parts of the sculpture. It is made of silicone rubber and polyurethane resin. The rubber mold has a certain degree of softness, so it must be combined with other materials. It can be used, usually together with stone carving mold sets. For example, animal stone sculpture such as lions and dragons mostly use this kind of mold.
3. Concrete form
Concrete formwork is mostly used for products with regular linear shapes and low reuse times, such as spiral, corrugated, circular, arched or three-dimensional trough-shaped products. It has low cost and good rigidity. It can be built with bricks as the foundation, then covered with cement mortar, sanded, puttyed, and then polished, polished, and painted. This kind of cement mold can be directly used to produce finished landscape boulders, or it can also be used to reproduce the master mold of landscape boulders molds. The cement mold dries slowly, and even under normal conditions, it will take more than a week before surface construction such as painting can be carried out.
4. Metal mold
Metal molds, especially steel molds, are usually used for small-scale, large-volume molded products. For example, when making landscape boulders slabs, stainless steel plates with smooth surfaces are used; when making exterior profiles, angle steel and channel steel are used. Because molded products not only need to be pressurized, but also heated. It is also used for large products that are not cluttered in appearance.