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Woodworking · by Faisal Al Saud · 2026-10-28

CNC stone carving for a gothic church: old craft meets new tools

carmelitegothic.com

Really cool look at how CNC is being used to carve gothic stonework that would take a mason years. Is it still craft if a machine does the roughing?

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Midnight Marauder · 14 likes

machine does the roughing, human does the finishing. medieval guys would've used it too

Mara Fischer · 12 likes

this is the same debate we have with CNC woodworking. tool is a tool