Eased
Arris: 2 mm · drawn at 20 mm
The default for a worktop, a table and a counter edge. A small arris that will not chip on the corner, and that a cloth will run along without catching.
Used for: Worktops, tables, counters
Edge profiles
How the edge is finished, drawn to section
An edge is not a decoration; it is a decision about how the piece is handled and how it wears. A bullnose cannot take a square corner without a mitre, an eased edge is the one that will not chip on the arris of a table that gets knocked, and a laminated edge is a way of building apparent thickness out of two pieces of thinner stone. Below, each profile is drawn to section against the thickness of the material, with what it is for.
12 of 12 profiles shown
Bevelled
Arris: 6 mm · drawn at 20 mm
A wider chamfer, usually on 45 degrees. It reads as a deliberate line rather than as a softened corner, and it is the profile to ask for where the edge is meant to be seen.
Used for: Feature edges, bar tops, plinths
Bullnose
Arris: Full radius · drawn at 20 mm
A full radius across the face. The most forgiving edge there is - there is no corner to chip - and the one that costs the most to produce, because the radius has to be cut and honed all the way.
Used for: Bars, counters, tactile edges
Mitred
Arris: 45 degrees · drawn at 20 mm
Two pieces joined at 45 degrees so the edge reads as one solid thickness. The join is the weak point, and it is the way to make a thin material read as a thick one.
Used for: Thin material, long runs, aprons
Laminated
Arris: Built up · drawn at 20 mm
Apparent thickness built from two or more pieces of thinner stone. Where the edge has to look like a 60 mm slab and the material is only 20 mm, this is how.
Used for: Apparent thickness, waterfall returns
Ogee
Arris: Concave to convex · drawn at 20 mm
A classical profile with a hollow and a swell. It is a period detail, it is machined rather than cut, and it is worth specifying where the piece has to read as joinery rather than as a slab.
Used for: Period work, furniture, skirtings
Square
Arris: Sharp · drawn at 20 mm
The arris left as sawn and honed. Cleanest of the profiles and the least forgiving: it shows every chip, and on this stone the corners need care because the structure is brecciated.
Used for: Sharper contemporary work, cut pieces
Sandblasted
Arris: Square, textured · drawn at 20 mm
A matte surface taken off the whole face, edge included. It hides the polish marks and it is the finish to ask for where the surface is walked on wet.
Used for: Wet areas, exterior, tactile surfaces
Tumbled
Arris: Rounded, textured · drawn at 20 mm
An edge softened all round and a face left matte, which is what a tumbled edge is: the arris and the surface are finished together.
Used for: Rustic work, reclaimed look
Rebated
Arris: Stepped · drawn at 20 mm
A step taken out of the underside of the edge, so the piece reads thinner at the rim than it is. It is a shadow line, and it is how a thick slab is made to look light.
Used for: Design-led work, shadow-gap detail
Waterjet cut
Arris: As specified · drawn at 20 mm
Not an edge but a cut: a profile drawn on the slab and cut in one pass by water jet, which is how a complex section is made without a mould. The corner where two waterjet cuts meet still has to be finished by hand.
Used for: Complex sections, inlays, frames
Pencil
Arris: Single bevel · drawn at 20 mm
A single soft bevel at the top edge, which is the way to take the sharpness off a square arris without turning the profile into a decision.
Used for: Minimal work, tactile comfort
These are the profiles we work to. A profile outside this list can be made to order, and the drawing is the one that decides whether it can - a mitre on a piece of this thickness, for instance, is a decision about the block and not about the saw.
Beyond the edge
An edge is one decision on a piece. The rest of the work is listed here, and every one of it is something we do.
The workshop
The photographs of the workshop are on their own page, because what happens to the stone before it is a surface is a different question from how the surface is finished.
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