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Category Archives: V-cut letters
Practice at home
These are all on offcuts and scrap limestone found at a local building site. Drawn on paper and traced onto the stone, rearranging the letters as I went. The ‘A’ and ‘M’ should be slightly more slanted which I … Continue reading
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Second lesson
Still using Maltese limestone, I drew an ambitious word to be carved. With lots of help I finished it. I’ve since gone back and smoothed the chisel marks down. Franka is the Maltese word for limestone.
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This looks interesting…
… I’ll watch it later… http://www.folkstreams.net/film,141 Since it was produced in 1978, Final Marks has become a classic documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work … Continue reading
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First lesson in v-cut letters in stone
What a wonderful factory! Massive, massive lumps of stone and marble in all shapes and sizes and massive, massive loud machinery. Straight through to the back of the factory is a smaller and quieter area where I was give my … Continue reading
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Neglected
Right, this blog has been seriously neglected and I’m blaming Facebook. It became so much easier to upload pics there and not here – and get almost instant feedback. Now I’ve started a new challenge, something I’ve always wanted to … Continue reading
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