Jobs made sure it was sourced from a specific quarry in Kansas and carefully distressed to make it look like the stone from his favorite hotel in Yosemite.
These so-called 'axes factories' were really quarries rather than factories, as the manufacture of the axes wasn't regularly performed on the quarry site.
It looks like a scene set in the Middle Ages, a gaping, sprawling stone quarry just outside Uganda's capital. It is also a gravel factory, all of it done by hand, large, small, and very small hands.
So the whole of a big research area now on fish-eating dinosaurs across the world, all began because of a chance find of a claw bone in a quarry in Surrey.
It was then roughly shaped before being moved on wooden sleds, and pulled by large teams of labourers, from the quarry to a raft which was floated down the Nile to Luxor.
It had been found by workers blasting rock from a quarry in Gibraltar in 1848, so its preservation was a wonder, but unfortunately no one yet appreciated what it was.