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Here we would like to present some photographs of the process of creating the granite icons.
In the carpenter's shop with Glenn. Wood templates.
Pictured here is Glenn Honke in the carpenter's shop where all the wood templates for the granite tiles were made. Before delivering the templates to Cold Spring Granite, they were laid out in the parking lot. The template for the circle is not shown. It's a good thing that we only had to make half of them!

A few granite tiles. These are a few of the granite tiles. This photograph does absolutely no justice to the beauty of the polished granite.

Transporting the granite.
The polished granite tiles were supplied by a local quarry, Cold Spring Granite Canada Ltd. The quarry is located very close to Pinawa. Fortunately, it is also located very close to Flying Pigment Design Studio which is where they had to be transported.

Pictured above is Al Abraham, an LGD of Pinawa employee, who made all four trips required to move the granite tiles. The town provided the use of their 3/4 ton truck and 24 foot trailer.

There are very few pieces that can be handled manually. We were fortunate that Gilbert Osis, owner of Osis Do-It Centre in Lac du Bonnet, donated the use of one of his fork lifts for us to use for unloading the trailer. Al Abraham was the operator. We did not use the lift seen mounted in the box of the truck although we did give it a momentary consideration.

Each piece of granite was on a wooden pallet. Once unloaded at FPDS, we used a pallet jack to move the pieces around on the concrete floor in their building.

The next step is for the artists of FPDS to place rubber masking on the granite tiles. This mask protects the areas of granite which are to remain polished. The exposed areas will be sandblasted. The result will be the beautiful images illustrated on the previous page.


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