| Number |
Name |
Type |
Description |
Material |
| 1 |
Honed |
Machine |
Smooth, but no sheen. Specify degree of honing 00-100 |
All types of stone |
| 2 |
Polished |
Machine |
Least porous finish, seals surface; produces high gloss and reflection; smooth as glass |
Granites, Marbles, Limestone, and select Sandstones |
| 3 |
Lychee |
Hand |
Hand or machine bush-hammered; produced with multi-point hammer; non-directional textured finish that resembles a lychee fruit skin; very consistent, even surface; excellent co-efficient of friction |
Granites, Limestones, and Sandstones; holds and shows finish exceptionally well in Limestone; enhances overall depth and richness of many Sandstones |
| 4 |
Adze |
Hand |
Hand finished adze - directional finish; produced with hammer-like axe; can be fine with almost parallel lines or rough directional lined pattern; pattern can be - heavy/deep or light/shallow |
Granites, Limestones, and Sandstones; holds and shows finish exceptionally well in limestone |
| 5 |
Cleft |
Hand |
Natural cleft or stone face finish; split along natural fault line; no tooling or chisel marks |
Granites, Limestones, Sandstones, slate and quartzite |
| 6 |
Split-Face |
Hand |
Natural cleft and then hammered to create a more even, but more textured finished face. For many stones, percussive hammer marks blend into split-face texture. |
Granites, Limestones, Sandstones, and quartzite; used predominantly on granite |
| 7 |
Mushroom |
Hand |
Natural cleft and then chiseled up from the edges of each piece to create a raised center; few or no chisel marks; in profile it resembles a mushroom; the thickness at the edges is called the arris; both the arris and max face thickness should be specified |
Granites, Limestones, Sandstones, and quartzite; used predominantly on granite |
| 8 |
Thermal |
Machine / Hand |
Flame finished by applying torch heat - surface of stone spalls off to leave a textured, natural looking, and fairly uniform face; some stones contain minerals that change color when flame is applied |
Granites, quartzites and some Limestones |
| 9 |
Corduroy |
Hand |
Heavy hand-chiseling in parallel lines across face; can stop the pattern before reaching the edge of each piece to avoid spalling/breaking the edge; can be applied over hand-gauged or sawn face |
Granites, Limestones, and Sandstones |
| 10 |
Pineapple |
Hand |
Rougher finish resembles a pineapple skin; produced by hammer and chisel in a rough, but fairly regular pattern of short, angled chisel marks across the face; although technically a directional finish, its rough texture can make the direction difficult to perceive; rough-pineapple can be specified non-directional as well; can be applied over hand-gauged or sawn face |
Granites, Limestones, and Sandstones |
