How to become a stonemason or Stone cutter or splitter or carver
Official title: Stonemason/Stone cutter/splitter/carver
Also called: Granite polisher, Marble polisher, Monument carver-setter, Monumental mason, Niche plaque installer, Sandblaster (stone cutting), Shotblaster (stone cutting), Stone carver, Stone cutter, Stone cutter and finisher, Stone driller, Stone grader
Stonemason/Stone cutter/splitter/carver cuts and shapes hard and soft stone blocks and slabs for the construction and maintenance of stone structures and monumental masonry and carves designs and figures in stones.
Main tasks
- Driving wedges into quarried stone to break it into slabs or blocks
- Selecting and grading slabs of blocks of granite, marble and other stone
- Cutting, shaping and finishing building and monumental stone such as granite or marble by hand or using hand-powered tools
- Making patterns and marking shapes on stone for subsequent sawing, planning, drilling and other dressing and cutting operations
- Cutting and carving characters, figures or designs on stone blocks used for monuments or memorials
- Setting stone in the erection of monuments or memorials
- Repairing and replacing stonework on old buildings, churches and monuments
Pay · Outlook · AI and this job
- Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Questions people ask
Will AI change the work of a stonemason or Stone cutter or splitter or carver?
Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026