Limestone Colors and Finishes
Bybee Stone Company is capable of providing any finish your project might require. If your design needs a particular textural finish, talk to us, and we'll make the tools to get the finish right.
Our finishes include: plucked, tooled, bushhammer, crandle, 9-point, rock face, split face, plow, chat sawed, and shot sawed.
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BUFF SMOOTH Buff stone varies from a light creamy shade to a brownish buff. Grain size can be fine to moderately large-grained stone with an average amount of the following characteristics: calcite streaks or spots, fossils or shelly formations, pit holes, reedy formations, open texture streaks, honeycomb formations, iron spots, travertine-like formations, and grain formation changes. Building Detail Examples: |
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GRAY SMOOTH Gray stone varies from a light silvery gray to shades of bluish gray. Grain size can be fine to moderately large-grained stone with an average amount of the following characteristics: calcite streaks or spots, fossils or shelly formations, pit holes, reedy formations, open texture streaks, honeycomb formations, iron spots, travertine-like formations, and grain formation changes. Building Detail Examples: |
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VARIEGATED SMOOTH Variegated stone will contain an uncertain percentage of individual stones containing both buff and gray coloring. You might also have individual stones which are either all buff or all gray. The grade of texture can be from a fine grain in size to a coarse grain. You might also find all the usual characteristics of Indiana limestone as described above. Building Detail Examples: |
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RUSTIC BUFF Rustic buff color varies from a light creamy shade to a brownish buff with some silvery shades possible. Grain size can be fine to a very coarse-grained stone permitting an above average amount of calcite streaks or spots, fossils or shelly formations, pit holes, reedy formations, open texture streaks, honeycomb formations, iron spots, travertine-like formations, and grain formation changes. Building Detail Examples: |
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CHAT SAWED This finish is a result of using a coarse abrasive during the gang sawing operation, and produces a coarse, pebbled surface which closely resembles the appearance of sand blasting. It will sometimes contain shallow saw marks or parallel scores. Direction of the score or saw marks will be vertical and/or horizontal unless the direction is specified. This finish might have a slight variation in color due to the presence of iron oxide in the saw slurry, a result of the wearing of the steel saw blades. This finish can be applied only to flat surfaces, and is particularly suited to the various types of ashlar. For best economy, its use should be confined to the coarser grades of stone. Building Detail Examples: |
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SHOT SAWED This is a coarse, uneven finish ranging from a pebbled surface to one ripped with irregular, roughly parallel grooves. The random markings are obtained by using steel shot in the gang sawing process in combination with chat sand. The steel shot rusts during the process, permitting varying amounts of rust stain to develop—adding permanent brown tones to the natural color variations. It is not possible to obtain complete uniform distribution of the shot grooves over the entire surface of the stone. Some portions will have only a chat sawed finish. A shot sawed finish can be applied to flat surfaces only and should be confined to the coarser grades. Direction of the grooves will be vertical and/or horizontal in the stone unless the direction is specified. Building Detail Examples: |
