Juan Emilio, registered in the Registry of Artisans of Castilla y León with the number 40 -I- 045, has continued the family craft. 

The experience acquired over the years makes him have full knowledge of the traditional techniques used in stonework. The tools he has been… given by his predecessors have an important role in each of the works he manufactures in an artisanal way. Whatever the task is (carving a capital, manufacturing a coat of arms or a sculpture), each one of these tools has its function. Thus, the hand tracer, the stonemason’s pickaxe, the bull point chisel or the toothed stone axe are tools used to roughen vast quantities of stone, whilst the bush hammer and the axe are tools used to give the final finishes to the piece. In carving works, he uses chisels of all types, flat chisels, hammer head chisels or tooth chisels. The pneumatic tools with compressed air are a complement to other tools which ease and make some of the processes more competitive, speeding them up. 

For the carving of sculptures he uses the two most well-known methods: direct carving and pointing technique. Direct carving, as its name itself indicates, implies working on the stone with no prior model of reference. From a few lines on the stone, he gives shape to the piece freely until the final piece is concluded. To carry out the sculpture using the pointing technique, he uses a pointing machine and spring calipers to help him out. With the pointing machine he aims to obtain an exact copy of the model previously carried out which is afterwards going to be reproduced. The compasses enable to amplify or reduce the copy with regard to the original piece. He carries out his own sculptural creations as well as reproductions of works of art.