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Cast from real stone. Real wood. Nothing sculpted from imagination.

A texture taken off an actual rock face reads as rock, because it is one. Bryan designed most of this tooling because what he needed didn't exist — and the molds are hand-crafted rather than vacuum-formed.

Texture tooling

The six things that do the shaping.

SBC texture roller beside finished workTexture rollers Seamless stone and wood grain for floors, walls, countertops, driveways and water features. The workhorse of the whole trade.

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Seven round rock texture stampsTexture stamps Boulder, rock face and wood for landscape features, waterfalls, pool surrounds, retaining walls, concrete furniture and countertop edges.

Stamps & prices →

Petrified wood concrete vessel sinkSink molds Including the petrified wood series. Over-mount, under-mount and vessel, with two-hour demold formulations and mixes that are lighter than standard GFRC.

About sink molds →

Chiseled edge countertop form linerCountertop edge forms Form liners and edge stamps for kitchens, islands, outdoor kitchens and bathrooms — including chiselled edge profiles.

Forms & form liners →

Epoxy resin crystal moldCrystal & agate molds Clear-cast epoxy molds for countertop features — hand-crafted, for the centrepiece nobody can copy.

Crystal & agate molds →

Three concrete wall panel patternsWall panel design sets 42 patterns, six molds per set, cast at 1′ × 2′. Cut with a wood blade, fixed with nails or screws.

Panels, patterns & pricing →

The rollers, working

This is what a cast texture does to wet concrete.

Why hand-crafted matters

A vacuum-formed mold gives you a pattern. A cast one gives you a surface.

Mass-produced tooling repeats. Look along a stamped patio and you can see where the mat was lifted and set down again, because the same three rocks keep appearing. Tooling cast from real material carries the irregularity of the original — which is the only thing that makes a finished floor stop looking stamped.

36Years designing tooling
2005Trademarked brand
2009World of Concrete award
AZMade in Arizona
Materials

And the things that go in the mixer.

The tooling shapes it. These decide whether it cures hard, colours evenly and survives a hot pan.

Raw materials The base materials for countertops, floors, sinks and walls — the blends the classes are taught on.

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Colorants & pigments Acrylic colorants, epoxy pigments, mica flakes and mica powder — the palette behind the coloration work.

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Bag mixes & fibres Pozzolan, glass fibres and pre-blended bag mixes for consistent results without batching from scratch.

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Tools & supplies Hopper guns, mixers, trowels, chip brushes and the rest of the kit the job actually needs.

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Doing your own kitchen rather than starting a business? Homeowner kits are built to the run you measured, not boxed to a standard size.

About DIY kits

Call before you order. Most of what people put in a basket is wrong for the job they're describing, and two minutes on the phone fixes it. Students get wholesale pricing through the membership.

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