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Flamed | Polished
| ![]() Flamed texture provides a rough surface. The roughness in the surface is a
result of bursting of crystals when the stone is heated. Such a surface
gives an irregular textured finish similar to sandblasted.
Sandstone, Pennsylvania Bluestone and granite can be flamed.
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| ![]() Polished surface texture is a reflection of polished crystals. Such
texture brings out the brilliant colors and grains of natural stones.
The shine on stone surface comes from polishing bricks and powders used
during fabrication and not from any coating.
Softer stones, including some limestones, will not hold a polish.
| Honed
| Sawn
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| ![]() The honed texture is produced by grinding a surface with high grit
material to a uniform specification, such that it does not produce a
reflective surface. Thus honed stone colors are not as vibrant as
polished stones.
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| ![]() Sawn surface is as it comes from the saw, may have arcing lines on the finished surface from the sawing operation.
| Fine Lined
| Medium Lined
| ![]() Sawn surface chiseled to create roughly parallel lines typically 8 lines per inch.
| ![]() Sawn surface chiseled to create roughly parallel lines typically 4 lines per inch.
| Rustic Chiseled
| Sand Blasted
| ![]() Surface is sawn with lines every 1 to 2 inches then waste is chiseled away between the lines.
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| ![]() Sand blasted produces a finish similar to cleft, sand blasting involves projecting
a high-pressure air with coarse-grained grit onto the top surface of the
stone. It is characterized by a textured surface with a matte appearance.
| Light Bush Hammered
| Heavy Bush Hammered
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| ![]() Bush hammer is a pounding action that develops a textured surface. The top surface is
pneumatically tooled to produce a pitted or grooved surface finish.
| ![]() The top surface is pneumatically tooled to produce a pitted or grooved surface finish.
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