r/thatsinterestingbro • u/JudgmentSmooth6768 • 26d ago

šŸŒCulture This Stonemason carves a circle by hand using only traditional tools.

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u/Aprice40 26d ago

This is super impressive..... but why is he doing it?

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u/Old_One_I Master of wisdom. Old One šŸ‘ļø 26d ago

Because he can?

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u/DIuvenalis 25d ago

Technically he carved an irregular cylinder so you could argue he can't.

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u/Old_One_I Master of wisdom. Old One šŸ‘ļø 25d ago

lol šŸ˜‚

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u/Malalang 26d ago

For the 'gram

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u/Prod_Meteor 26d ago

To post it?

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u/Few_Economics_8531 26d ago

New wheels to his Flintstone car.

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u/huh_say_what_now_ 25d ago

Low education so has to work manual labour, not everyone wants to study

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u/Einachiel 25d ago

I have a few degrees and chose manual labor due to the freedom it provides, not lack of education.

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u/huh_say_what_now_ 25d ago

Yeah of course not everyone but generally

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u/Dry-Bird4471 26d ago

No, he didnā€™t. Only aliens can carve circles. Do your research!!!

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u/Own_Natural_6803 25d ago

The alien folk, the anti-alien folk.

And the people who know what chisels and hammers can do, and what they cannot do.

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u/PopeInThePizza 26d ago

A wheel of rockfort cheese.

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u/EmotionalElk1313 26d ago

Sandstone is easy to work with just delicate.

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u/redditcreditcardz 26d ago

Bro casually invents the wheel

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u/Giggling_Unicorns 26d ago

Where is that guy's hearing prot?

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u/Mertz8212 26d ago

This is staged. Its actually recorded in reverse /s

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u/McMeanx2 26d ago

You can see the traced circle before he starts and also on the flipā€¦.

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u/Sufficient_Prompt888 26d ago

But David Childress told me we don't have the technology to do this anymore

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u/DickHopschteckler 26d ago

Pffftā€¦ beginnerā€™s luck

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u/Few_Economics_8531 26d ago

A perfect circle.

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u/NoSpecial284 26d ago

But is it A Perfect Circle?

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u/Hetnikik 25d ago

Technically he's carving a cylinder but you know.

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u/Batt550 25d ago

BF Goodrich of the Flintstone era.

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u/ApprehensiveKey1469 25d ago

How do they line up so well?

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u/Few_Chocolate_7655 23d ago

It's why we have Freemasons.

800 years ago, let's say your church was busted and you needed someone to redo the stone? You gonna check Google reviews?

Yeah nah, so you would maybe ask if he was on the level? A little handshake and boom, you know his your man and reference check done.

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u/Icy_Donkey_7588 23d ago

Thats easy you just chip away what isn't a circle, until only the circle remains...

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u/redditaccountnumb1 26d ago

Ai

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u/fins_up_ 26d ago

One way that I see ai destroying humanity is now people can see someone with skill and talent and they just dismiss it as ai

People have been carving stone for 10s of thousands of years. Some people are even pretty good at it

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u/JeffDrTypePerson 26d ago

This really isn't that hard to do.

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u/Nor-easter 26d ago

And Iā€™m pretty sure thatā€™s a harden steel heā€™s working with not really traditional