This place which many world famous artists worship and chose to live in, a “sub-sector” of very great importance in the field of the art of ironwork, has been developing during the time: the production of special kinds of tools for artistic work on a large scale.
It is in this way that materials – so called friable – like marble, wood, chalk and the most recent foams can be manipulated according to the particular needs, thanks to a wide range of tools that, apart from the pneumatic drill, used to rough-hew a block of marble, are fully hand made ( wooden handles included) and exported all over the world. Piece by piece the blades, rasps and spatulas are cut according to a precise size, heated in a forge, beaten with a pedal hammer or between an anvil and hammer, refined in their shape and ground to obtain perfect blades. Then put again in the forge to soften them to be able to make, still by hand using the appropriate graver, those regular rows of teeth which are characteristic of rasps.
They are plunged in water while they are still burning and the thermic shock will produce an everlasting hardness.
The sharpening and polishing which follow make these instruments perfectly functional
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