Today, they are fashioned into slabs, covered with beeswax and carved in the shape of realistic dragons or buffaloes to match their natural contours.
二水鄉的硯台雕刻師傅，自濁水溪河床中採回螺溪石後，依據其天然形狀，磨平為硯，塗上蜜蠟，便顯出石的原色，外觀古樸而雅緻。