Joseph Conrad Stone Cutter

Joseph Conrad has worked & played in the stone industry for fifty years. From architectural drafting to quarrying to stone installations to founding a stone fabrication business to stone exploring and eventually to sculpture. His blog shares his lifetime of experience. It is meant to make the urban landscape understandable to everyone. He hopes to help provide a sense of place in the urban environment by providing his insights on stone history & fabrication.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Commercial Work

›
One of the first projects my 18-year-old son worked on with me was a conference table, for a commercial real estate sales office in downto...

The Inspection

›
Traveling by jet plane to southeastAlaska,a ferry to the island,crossing it in a international travelall, to Craig, a fishing village. Final...

The State of The Arts

›
He was a beautiful man Hungarian cab driver in Vienna, locally referred to as Wien. Throwing his great 60 year old arms up declared in a ri...

Custom Fabrication

›
After being turned down by two neighborhood machine shops, I searched the large S.E. District for a metal fab shop. I found two of th...
2 comments:

My Friend Pete

›
                                                              PETE My mentor was Italian whom I worked for when I was a college student. ...

My Dad The Stonecutter

›
Today, few people know what a stonecutter is, even though until recently it was a common trade that was often a preparation to architectural...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

My Apprenticeship in the Stone Business

›
As a kid I suspect most children of the 40s and 50s generation were given household chores by their mother ranging from doing the dishes to ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has fifty years experience working in the stone fabrication industry. He is the founder of Conrad Stonecutter in Portland, Oregon (http://www.conradstonecutter.com).
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.