Anyone carve rocks?

I do a little messing around grinding folks names into field stones, nothing bigger than I can haul around, but mostly just for gifts. I'm far from professional and my equipment isn't either. Just curious if anyone else dabbles in it???

Looks great to me. Good job, ADC.

Carved a few pipes out of soapstone.

Hahahaaaa.Shawshank.

Looks good. I have a stone I want to do the same thing to. What kind of tools did you use?

Lol, Yep, one of the best ever!

Yes what kind of tools do you use?

Looks good Jamie, if you want it cleaner you'll need a plotter cutter. Nice work.

Sandblast is easier.
Tip, put address # on separate stone because they change.
Yes I've carved.

I just have an electric 1/4" die grinder with cheap grinder bits from Harbor Freight and Amazon, and use a garden hose to keep them wet so as to not burn up the bits too fast. Like I said definitely not a professional set up.

Coincidence that its open to the book of Exodus ?? oh man that’s pretty good never noticed that! Lol


To get back on point - I had an uncle who made a marker stone with family name for their front yard. He went to a monument company and had a stencil made. It was a plastic rubber with just the letters you want Etched in the stone cut out . You lay the stencil on the stone and hit it with a sandblaster and some type of aggravate Until you get the desired depth to the letters...It turned out very well. I don’t know what he paid for the stencil and you would have to have a sandblaster and air compressors... your way is definitely a lot more simple and low tech .I like that -now I’m half tempted to try it.

That pictures hurts my ears. Lol. 1/4" die grinder on rock has to be one of the worst.

Actually P63, it's not. I suppose because it's wet. It is a lot louder on metal.

I bought a cheap air powered grinder to try, if my air compressor will keep up, it should be a little safer than electric with the hose running on it. LOL

Just chisel the date in a stone on the jobs I do.

Nice stone work, ridge runner.