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Granite technique

Stone Conversations : Archive 6 : Message 00448

From: "S. Nolte" <shannon@zzzzzzzzzz>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:55:00 -0500
Subject: Granite technique

Hey everyone,
One more question....tonight anyway. I look at older granite headstones and
they seem to have a pattern that we now replicate with a sandblaster (I
think they call it "flashed" when it's blasted) that looks like lots and
lots of little scratches, roughly parallel, not cross-hatched, that go
around a raised letter. Do you know if there is a chisel with several
little teeth that might do this? I've seen big chisels like this, but I
think they're for removing material, but I'm not sure. I hesitate,
..............a long, LONG time.......to mention this, but I think I could
do it with a Dremel-tool. :) One doubts, however, that they used them in
the 1800's.
Dremel , Dremel, Dremel-tool !!!
:-p
:)
Shannon

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