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The yard at Tomislav Vićovac's Water Jet YU company showed precision evidence of artificial accelerated erosion. Because once you think about it, that's just about what water jetting really boils down to. It's clean, too. It burns neither blades nor its cutting subjects. And unlike lasers, it goes through up to 15 centimeters of steel. It cuts Inox like butter. Ditto for all manner of stone.

The core recipe is simplicity itself. Purify water to contain no microscopic solids. Then compress it by up to 4130 bar and fire it out at controlled velocities through the tiniest of openings. Presto, nature is harnessed to enable precision work from what seems like antiquated technology. Leave it to the Swedes to manufacture the biggest baddest machines to put it to good use.

Here we're still in the yard staring at throwaways and leftovers.

The raw edges were amazingly crisp and clean.

A worker cutting a tight C into what I took to be marble, to complete an ornate table inlay.

Here we see the computer control panel, then multiple paralleled cutter heads, a close up of a cutter head and the rear side of a water jet machine.

Tomislav's company logo; another stone inlay table; a cutter head shaft; and finally the actual heads with their micro ruby bores.

The shop from the office landing.

Sasa Cokic, Tomislav Vićovac and Miroslav Despotovic, three happy musketeers.