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WSO CREATIVE CONCRETE
Bohemia, N.Y.

The three-man team at WSO Creative Concrete in Bohemia, N.Y., specializes in small, unique decorative projects, including hand-troweled, poured-in-place countertops; vertical jobs; acid staining and stamp work. The company started out doing monument work in cemeteries and discovered that the unique forming skills they gained in that business could be easily applied to formwork for intricate countertop systems and about five years ago started hand-picking decorative projects to take on.

Bill Orenzow of WSO says his favorite decorative tool is the square-headed margin trowel. "It's not a tool that will finish the job, but it comes in handy for finishing edges of countertops. It's my favorite edge finishing tool," he says.

Orenzow also points out the importance of another tool his team uses on each job. "Our hands are our most important tools - without them we'd get nothing done," he says. "Without that tool there would be no true meaning to the phrase 'hand crafted.'"