Hand Stone Carving, lettering

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This video demonstrates the carving of a letter in stone by hand, using a chisel and mallet. The letters are drawn out by hand and spacing is judged by eye. Carving letters in stone is a skill which takes time and patience. This letter is carved in Portland limestone and it is 30 mm high.
When carving a letter in stone you start in the middle of the letter and work out to the lines creating a v-cut.
This lettering is carved by Fergus Wessel who runs Stoneletters, a creative letter cutting studio in Oxfordshire. We specialise in hand carved lettering in stone for memorials, headstones, opening plaques, commemorative plaques and heraldry.
For more examples of lettering in stone, advice and inspiration visit my website stoneletters.com

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3 июл 2014

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@marcbroussard2433 5 лет назад

This is a great video for any beginner to see, I am enjoying it immensely! You can see myriad hours of muscle memory guiding that chisel. You make it look so easy but I know it is not. Lighting up the shadow areas a bit would enhance the quality of the video. I am about to start carving the headstone for my best friend who died a week ago. I want to do a good job cuz he's sure to find a way to bitch if I don't. Nothing changes.

@djwerd831 Месяц назад

Awesome!!

@virzantillweed 7 лет назад

Always wanted to see this in action. Thank you.

@pattimoran821 6 лет назад

Truly a thing of beauty - and such skill!

@Stoneletters 6 лет назад

thanks

@GDWhiting Год назад

@@Stoneletters this is you carving?

@SC-rb2jr 5 лет назад

Many thanks for the video. The strong shadows make it hard to see sometimes, but it's good to hear the sounds rather than music. If you do another video please zoom in a bit further. Great carving. Thanks again.

@marcelmachler7107 7 лет назад

FIne Work ! Congrats.

@1071jmkz 9 лет назад

Thanks, yes that's really helpful. Nice work by the way! :)

@1071jmkz 10 лет назад

Thanks for posting this video, I've started carving letters in script font into a number of hard, clay reclaimed bricks that I have been making a path with up to my house. I've been finding the brick difficult to carve neatly into though, without chipping the edges of the letters. Is brick bad for carving into by hand? I've paid a lot of attention to your technique, but I'm wondering if brick is the wrong stuff to try carving into! I've been using a 6mm carbide tipped chisel and 1Ib dummy hammer

@AmurtArt 4 года назад

Fantastic

@curlyhairdudeify 7 лет назад

My favorite font (Times New Roman). I hate and cannot stand to read in any other font. I hate writing and reading cursive. I prefer the straight lines of that beautiful Roman font.

@TheCrafter345 8 лет назад

wow

@ferguswessel1619 9 лет назад

apologies for not replying earlier, I was having trouble with my computer account. It seems your question has been answered! Please ask if you have any others! You may also like to see my latest video on my website. Fergus

@leijen2 8 лет назад

Hi...great work...I would like to try stone carving...where could I get the chisels from? Thanks

@owninggezer 8 лет назад

+Sam and Linda Leijen Trow and Holden.

@matttinkler6072 7 лет назад

I count 4 lines of about 19 letters per line (6:37). That's 76 letters at about 6 minutes per letter. To carve the letters on this monument would take almost 8 hours of continuous work. I wonder what the cost is per hour (or per letter)?

@Stoneletters 7 лет назад

An appreciation of the time it takes to carve by hand, thank you. Hand carved monuments are always going to be more expensive than machine produced ones. It is not only the fine letters themselves though, but also the care and time that goes into the actual design and the letter spacing, which can be adjusted by "a nothing" using the naked eye, something you could not manage using a ruler. It takes a very long time to learn. Our new apprentices tend to carve 1-2 letters a day, but as long as the letters are perfect, time is not an issue, it is the quality that matters, not quantity.

@matttinkler6072 7 лет назад

I carve stone strictly as a hobby -- statuettes not letters. I have the luxury of making a mistake and working it into my design. I know how difficult it is to precisely follow a penciled line -- especially depending on the type of stone. I watched this video because I need to get better at it. Two things from your video have helped me. My guide hand has been too far away from the chisel point and lift-tap, lift-tap as opposed to keeping the chisel pressed on the line. Thanks for sharing and awesome work.