05h32 am and going to bed soon. Don't know for you but I've lost my wife and was interested about how guys are curving letters in stone/marble. And here I am. Beautiful work.
Good Job, Lovely soft Limestone to carve, I love dorset stone. The stone I carve is Gritstone from derbyshire, its not as fine grained as this but still fantastic stone
Nice demo Andy-you taught me at Weymouth in 1990.The late John Garland came into one of your classes one morning and announced that Thatcher had stepped down as PM,and you jumped in the air with joy! Check out ernestone.ie and see if you remember me!
I am amazed at the skill, patience and at times very delicate touch...I imagine a hundred Roman letter-cutters tink-tink-tinking away at magnificent edifices to write things, great things...but in a dark little corner of my mind (which resembles Mr Whittle's dungeon/workshop), I couldn't help but visualize Brian and his "Romanes eunt domus" and the Centurion...
I have been working for a masonry for 23 years. Experience enough. Now I have started working for myself. I go of my clients. to the graveyard and cut the letters on the gravestone. I am now 54 years old and after all those years, I still find the work very satisfying.
@gee3770 Hi, It shouldn't take long to learn to cut letters neatly, a few months practice. Cutting fast takes longer and you can spend many years learning the real skill, drawing letters.
I'm wanting to learn this skill so I can make headstones for my ancestors who have no grave marker so far 3 of them don't have a stone and I'm wanting to use local stone as for a period style head stone for my 3rd great grandma my 2nd great grandma and her 9 year old son.
i just started getting into this as a hobby...and my first attempt was a tree of life...i like it..but yeah he make it look easy...guy has some good control..id of busted that R all to a mess.
The post covid apocalypse is upon us as thousands are leaving this life due to vaccine injury. I’m going to study this and go into a new line of business.
Oh great! do you have a video to show us how? I'm intrigued by this. I have never seen it done before... Would love to see someone else's methods of doing it! Thanks in advance.
My father would have used the soft inside of a piece of bread to clean the pencil lines, and seal the pores in the stone.... But then again... My father was an old timer...lol
awesome andrew I hope you have one or a few students learning the trade form you. So many of the fine arts, antiquated nescessities are being lost to cad operated machines. I find myself pretty handy with a chisel to wood might have to try stone now. Since you make it look soooo ez. lol looks like alotta fun
After I'm retired, I have a dream of carving the American Constitution into granite in a hidden location. Let future generations find it so they know how badly they screwed up taking it for granted.
To get an appreciation of the technique, needed to be zoomed in most of the time. The long shots showed how he held the chisel and hammer but weren't much use apart from that.
Mark, I'm also intrigued by this. I'm assuming it's wax, maybe beeswax, and that he uses it enhance the edges of the letters so that he can see better (than with the stone dust coating everything) where he needs to do further outline work? - as I would guess that the beeswax makes the stone appear more as it would when weathered.
Do you mean G. Gibson? perfectly good tools. I learn't with a shortened lump hammer before the Italian style dummies were easily available. It is a cheap option for a beginner.
I am a Historian and I love this, there are so many things in the old world that were made just like this but the history books make no mention of exactly how it was done.
oh but you can get a really good set of chisels on amazon fairly cheap to get you started...actually a block of stone will cost you more than the tools...unless you go find your own stones...i like to go get mine from those giant rocks they use to stop mud and erosion. cause if you want a block a big block of soapstone or something...its going to cost you about 10x the cost of the tools.
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Hey! I’m just getting into stone carving my goal is to do a headstone for my father. I want to make it look like the old headstones you see in the cemetery from the 17 1800’s so I’m going to be using sandstone. If I could ask you for some advice on tools. I was told to get the Trow& Holden lettering kit but bc of the price and bc sandstone is a soft stone I wanted to make sure I’m getting the right tools. If there is a cheaper alternative that is still good quality that would be great too! Thank you in advance!
I am going to be carving into sandstone. I was told to get Trow&Holden lettering kit. It’s almost $400 so I wanted to ask someone bf I got it if this are the right tools for sandstone also is there anything cheaper and still good quality? I’m just starting out and don’t really know anything about it yet.
Someone commented that a concrete made from sand and Portland cement could serve as a practice stone but that it would not take the fine finish in the cut. Could a practice stone be made from just Portland with no sand or aggregate, or use a fine powdered amendment like talc, slaked lime, or silica that passes a 1000 sieve work to make practice stone? I do have a limestone quarry nearby but their main trade is for crushed stone. I could get a large stone from them, a ton or two in one piece, but I despair at the job of slabbing such a rock!
a profession older than writing and i'm not kidding, before the advent of cement people carved stones for sturdier buildings and one of the oldest monuments that has carved stone is the prehistoric temple in turkey at gobekli tepe, i guess there's a certain pride in knowing how to chip away the stone to create things of beauty that will outlast their creator
this could be where rhythm theory originates... i remember a knife honing discussion about it being about the sound. tonally. this is about the rhythm and the tone. sine v saw.
Тут со старым гравером по мрамору, посмотрели... Говорит видео для дурачков наверно, чего-то он скрывает.)) Долго уж делает. Сам рубит на столе. Ну, а я тоже как с опытом приличным скажу в итоге получилось очень хорошо!
Can anyone tell me what are the best types of stone to carve for different things and why? ...I started carving stone recently but I have only been tried so far on granite and some bullshit stone that shatters in flakes because that's all what I can find in the forest.
You want something soft so that its easy to work, and uniform so that it won't split along areas of hard and soft rock or natural fault lines in the stone, something like a sedimentary rock would be a good bet.
his greatest tools, hands, eyes, coordination, patience, even the sound of the strike. All combining instinctively after many years of honing his skill. Fascinating to watch, and as a creative person inspirational. thanks for posting.
