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Cast Stone is
generally used as a masonry product in all of the traditional
applications where cut, carved, sculpted or ashlar stone would
be used. Base, watertables, bands, sills, lintels, balusters,
rails, columns and quoins are typical uses. It can match
virtually any natural stone by coloring the cement matrix with
iron oxides and using manufactured sands made from the stone
that is to be matched.
Textures that are carved into real stone are incorporated into
Cast Stone by forming the negative of the texture into the mold.
After Cast Stone pieces have cured they can be etched with acid
or lightly sandblasted to add an aged look.
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Here Cast Stone
was used for pier caps, curved wall
coping and a curved sign panel. The lettering and
logo were sandblasted into the panel and
stained black. Signs are high profit centers.
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Real limestone
was pitched to make the patterns for the molds from which these Cast
Stone panels were made. The logo was sandblasted into a separate
panel which was recessed into the rock panel.
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