With Semi-Recessed pointing the Mortar is set back from the face of the brick, leaving arrises exposed. Often confused with flush pointing that has weathered.

This type of pointing is common to both Georgian and Victorian brickwork.

Bead pointing is made by creating a recessed channel of mortar between the brickwork and creating a protruding bead along the joint level with the brickwork itself.

The Tuck type of pointing evolved in the 17th Century to emulate the appearance of fine rubbed and gauged brickwork, using cheaper
bricks.

Mortar is coloured to match the brickwork , and a network of scored grooves are filled in using thin strips of lime putty

The Beak or Double-Struck joint is slightly recessed and has a v-shaped outwardly projecting profile.

This type of pointing is most common in Victorian work.

The Keyed type of pointing is similar to the Beak or Double-struck joint shown above but is inverted.

Bastard Tuck pointing is a highly skilled and refined method of pointing brickwork where the mortar joint is coloured to match the brick and grooved while still 'green' to receive a carefully placed lime-putty : silver sand joint, which is then carefully trimmed to form a precise ribbon-like profile. Its intention, in England, was to create an illusion of gauged ashlared brickwork on walling constructed of standard, often irregular, handmade bricks.

Galletted pointing is the use of small stone or flint chips introduced to the mortar and visable in the surface of the pointing.

This is a type of pointing is commonly found in stone or flint walls in Hampshire.

Weather struck pointing is made by running the trowel at a slight angle along the upper edge of the brick below the joint. Weather struck pointing can sometimes be made using a white cement and silver sand, to give a very white mortar.