HAND CARVING a free standing natural faced house sign - stone lettering. - stone letter carving 

Taken onboard I will try to improve 👍

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Hi Lawrence. Thank you for watching. I use a company called Southan Stone Ltd, which can be found on eBay & Amazon easily, and they ship to the USA. But if I can ask you to just wait a couple more days before you order anything, I could save you some money. I have come to a deal with them so I can offer my subscribers a discount code when ordering from them, and I will be releasing it very soon. Matty

Marty, please let me know when they are available. Do you have a website?

@@lawrencetrujillo65 No website anymore. I shut it down when I went from being a full-time stonemason running the business to now a hobby for RU-vid. My job now is a Peak National Park Ranger. Always available via email at thestoneranger08@gmail.com.

Thank you 🙏. Good luck with yours, I would love to see how you get on

Hi Ken, Yes and no, it’s called Derbyshire Gritstone, but it’s very clean tight grain like sandstone. I didn’t use the Molasses on this one. I have used it before, many years back, but the texture face on this stone wouldn’t lend itself to that method. Plus I really enjoy painting by hand. Thank you for watching 👍

@@TheStoneRanger i tried the Molasses trick. it looked easy. I found a quart of molasses in the pantry expired date 2016. Great I will use this. It evidently had evaporated some. It was very,super sticky and hard to roll on. That was done,the stone slanted down like a wedge shape. I waited for the M to dry. It had heated up in the sun,got more liquid and flowed into the letters. So I had to clean those out,wait for it to dry. This repeated several times. Finally I was able to paint and it came out fine. Why is the easy,never easy. UK has much different stone than the NE USA. We have granite and more granite. WE have no good sound slate. We have some bluestone from Pennsylvania. Marble is not used much nor limestone for outside projects. No sooner did I finish my house number,when they changed my address to a Lane. Can you use a #491? You can pick it up. I wii load it .Its free. Have a good day.

Hi Conrad, I hope you are well and thank you for watching. That is a very common question, and it’s always the same answer. You start again. There is nothing for it. It has to be right for the paying customer. If you were doing the project just for yourself, there are ways to fix damaged letters. I am planning a video in the new year on how to overcome a damaged letter, I hope you will find time to watch it. 😊

@@TheStoneRanger wow thank you so much for your reply! yeah i can understand for the paying customer you might not want to patch it if the quality would not be perfect. ill definitely be around to keep watching as i just started trying ti myself as a hobby! so i hope to learn a thing or two from watching :D

Hi Linda, thank you for your kind words & supporting the channel. The paint I am using on this project is a Rustins Black metal and stone paint, but it's more about the seal I use to stop the weather from getting to the paint, and for this, I am using a Thomson’s weather seal.

@@TheStoneRanger THANKYOU snd looking forward to seeing your next videos brilliant ☺️

Good luck 👍

Hi, this paint is water-based. It is then protected with a weather seal, which prevents the paint from being exposed to the elements.

@@TheStoneRanger can you recommend a brand of weather seal? Thanks!

Hi, using plugs and feathers is a method of splitting stone, you start by measuring up and marking the stone with a pencil the way you would like it to split, then drilling evenly spaced holes in a straight line. The hole depth and size needed will vary upon the size of the plugs and feathers. The plug is a tapered metal rod that sits in between two angled metal pin-like rods, these are the feathers. Tapping the plugs causes a fracture point in the stone. Once the hole is drilled you position the plugs and feathers. After you have the correct amount for that piece of stone then go around with a lump or sledge hammer tapping the plugs & feathers in order. While doing this listen to the taps as they will become a deeper pitch as the fracture point opens up and until it completely splits in the right place. I hope this helps, next time I am working on a project where I need to use plugs and feathers I will make a video 👍👍

Thank you 🙏

Thank you, certainly you can do it on hard granite, have a practice on a piece before you start your main project to get a feel for the material

If doing granite or other hard stones and trying to do letters and symbols and animals or even a tutor rose what type would you Recommend the tungsten tip lettering chisels or the regular tungsten tip chisels ljust want to make sure I buy the right stuff I would like to try my hand at carving eventually like shaping stone into sculpture but first symbols and writing only a few mm deep thanks