Sean I really don't like the dry look. Cutting stone I like
With dry look the little chips can be tedius esp with certain stone and especially when the finger tips are worn!
Certain dark stone can be chipped with slate..works well in fact some of it is in this job. Bastard granite [stratified grain] also is makes nice razors.On bed joints they slip in without lift. Sometimes the worse thing is to lay too tight then try to get bed chips to fit just to simulate a dry wall. The key in dry look is to learn to treasure certain shaped chips which result when cutting ie pegs especially triangulars etc. as they can
take much time making and finding.Certain stone produce them in quantity others do not...same scenario with razors and when one is abundand the other usually isn't!
My father would tell me stories of when he was a kid he would put little pegs [he called them "chinkers" in the wider joints of my grandfather's stone work. The old man would remove them and he'd sneak them back in...lol. I'd give anything to see that in a video!
I like doing a nice thin even joint but dry is very popular...and the thin stone installers love it.....I see big problems regarding that stuff ie leaks and mold and basic failure,especially veneers where tyvec or similar is used behind it.
Looks good.
You New Englanders sure like the dry look huh?