Sentence examples for pointed tools from inspiring English sources

These pointed tools are hammered into the surface at an angle that causes the stone to break off in chips of varying sizes.

Among them were "frottage," placing canvas or paper over different materials such as wood and rubbing it with graphite to make an impression of the grain; "grattage," scratching the painted surface of the canvas with pointed tools to make it more tactile; and "decalcomania," pressing liquid paint between two canvases and then pulling the canvases apart to produce ridges and bubbles of pigment.

In fact, undue surface cutting and metal squeezing was detected when the tests were performed with pointed tools, i.e., below threshold radius.

Tapers are long, slightly pointed tools used to stretch your piercing.

Pointed tools, combs, tracing wheels, etc, can also be dragged or rolled across clay sheets to create texturing materials.

It was then decorated by incising lines with a pointed tool.

Certain items — a jadeite model of a pointed tool used for ritual self-mutilation — are just strange.

Larger fragments of the precious metals were applied separately by hand, with the aid of a small, pointed tool.

There is also evidence of the use of drypoint (a hard needle used without acid), burnishing, and even scraping with a burin, a short, pointed tool.

The bill, which also applies to awls, another pointed tool, addresses concerns that the tools have occasionally been used in the city as weapons.

The scenes in grisaille are sometimes rendered more subtly by hatching, executed with a pointed tool or needle to reveal the dark enamel beneath.