Hand carving lettering on stone: Part 3 

Thank you! I did not know that. I'm guessing the fumes are just as evil :/

Indeed. A future episode will look at letter forms and drawing them by hand.

I designed it / kinda redrew it, based heavily on an inscription in London (St Stephen's, Walbrook) by John Skelton. I redrew the letters, scanned them, turned that into a font.

@@poorfrankraw Drawing letters well takes a very long time to master and longer than carving me thinks. Never understood why there is no Trajan style fonts with serifs suitable for letter carving. Even a stencil would be good!

@@gcgopro6912 I find some people are good at carving, a similar number good at drawing, a smaller number good at both. I'm more a carver than a drawer. I assume you know of the Trajan font? fonts.adobe.com/fonts/trajan The serifs are a bit weird when you see them at carving size, but you can just finesse and sharpen them as you go: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/e.jpg

@@poorfrankraw Thank you for the info on the computer fonts. Serifs are always the hardest to get right when being an "improver." On the bottom right serifs do you tap the chisel from left to right. Maybe a detailed video on carving serifs would be of interest? Thanks again.

@@gcgopro6912 I'm right handed so I go right to left, but with right pointing serifs, I sometimes turn the stone around and cut from the middle out to the tip of those serifs (which now point left) as I have more control and can get a better shape that way. It is a good point - serifs *are* tricky and a bit of special attention on them would make for a good video topic. Watch this space :)