• Percussion tools for hitting - such as mallets, axes, adzes, bouchards and toothed hammers.

• Tools for rough shaping of stone, to form a block the size needed for the carving. These include feathers and wedges and pitching tools.

• Chisels for cutting - such as lettering chisels, points, pitching tools, and claw chisels. Chisels in turn may be hand held and hammered or pneumatic powered.

• Diamond tools which include burrs, cup wheels, and blades mounted on a host of power tools. These are used sometimes through the entire carving process from rough work to final finish.

• Abrasives for material removal - such as Carborundum blocks, drills, saws, grinding and cutting wheels, water-abrasive machinery and dressing tools.