Category: Spall

What! No Stone For You?

By Emerson Schwartzkopf VERONA, Italy – The next time you’re in line somewhere, think about this: There’s probably one person ahead who can’t stand what you do. Nothing personal, unless you happen to be...

Any Number of Daze

By Emerson Schwartzkopf With the holidays approaching, most children begin hinting pretty hard their choices for gifts, as if television ads won’t do much of the sales job on parents anyway. I didn’t go...

Room to Groan

By Emerson Schwartzkopf The other day, I saw what could be a fabricator’s nightmare: A slab of 1”-think granite. On a palette, ready for the truck. At the front door of my local Home...