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Reply To: | BP - "Is this the list with all the ivy haters?" |
Date: | Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:16:51 -0500 |
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I had a request for information about a spec. calling for "bush hammered
bronze" finish. As far as I could figure out this was a use of a stone
working technique in metal working. (Anyone out there better enlightened
than me on this?) I'm guessing that this is a chased and matted finish or a
rough planished finish but I started thinking about the miss-use of old
technological terms. The phase "cast in stone" is constantly in print,
there was a recent Wall Street Journal article with that in the head, but,
naturally, stone isn't cast it's carved or cut. I have seen carved in
stone, set in stone, set in concrete, cast in concrete, and once I think,
carved in bronze all in print. Should this idiom be crushed under hand or
held up over head?
Mark
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