Hi, I’m Joel! I carve and cut letters into stone with hammer and chisel with traditional carving techniques. Traditional stone carving creations with hammer and chisel. Natural, wild, local stone is a particular treat of mine to create in, though I also work in marble, granite, and other stones. Interested in having a conversation? Feel free to message me directly, and follow along on my website at www.treasuredstoneworks.com.
I was young (I'm 49 now) when my family attended CCCU in Bellefontaine. The songs they sung have continued to play in my mind all throughout my life, even in the dark years before surrendering wholeheartedly to the Almighty.
It would be better to carve the lower curve first. It's always thick/deep through thin/shallow where possible, and the thin strokes should be continued up to the thick strokes centre line. You're less likely to chip a corner off doing it that way. Being righthanded, I always start cutting at the bottom left of the inscription, so I'm not rubbing my markings out as I go, lefthanders should start bottom right.
@@treasuredstoneworks Get a 1½lb Dummy Mallet, you'll get less bad strikes. They're quite soft, so grip the chisel head and are, being round, always orientated at the correct angle, unlike the hardened lump hammer you're using...Have you seen a documentary called "Final Marks"?
@@groovyt8695 Yes, great documentary. I am using a 1.5 lb dummy mallet on my current small slate project. Have been attempting to order a zinc dummy mallet upon a carver's recommendation, but the supplier seems to be booked out.
@@treasuredstoneworks Annealed iron mallets are used by most cutters, lots of places sell them, I got mine from Alec Tiranti's...I'm going to upload something shortly, read the description.
@@treasuredstoneworks Hey man im an apprentice stone mason myself and carving looks like an awesome skill to add to my Arsenal. could you link me the names of these chisels and/or books that would be suitable for a beginner? i do alot of fireplaces and would love to carve some lettering into the keystones. i would greatly appreciate it. i want to do gravestones too :) thanks dude!
Hi! I'm also new to the chisel carving hobby, I've been doing it about 3 months now. I see you made a pretty bad looking error in the first 4 seconds of the video by making the bottom of the S significantly lower than the bottom of the H. Is this your first week or so doing this hobby? If so, welcome! Do you intend on posting update videos as you get better? Keep at it and in a few years maybe you'll be good enough to tell when your S is going to come out looking as bad as this one did earlier on in the carving process like I can tell. Maybe more than a few years because that S might be the worst I've seen in my life lol. But anyway keep at it man! You got this! ♥
@@treasuredstoneworks Haha so you're not a bad carver you just pick bad fonts? Rough life man! I wish you the best and hope you pick better looking more uniformed fonts in your future projects!
Depends on the hardness of the stone, width of cut and how hard you hit them...frequently, as soon as you think they're losing their edge slightly, sharpen them while they're still sharp is best practice, on a wet whetstone, in long figure of eights, without rocking them, 3 or 4 times along the whetstone's length is enough.
Perhaps a better angle for the camera would be on a tripod over your right shoulder. Zoomed in a bit, and that way your hands wouldnt obscure much of the process. Otherwise, very satisfying to watch and hear.
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