Carving
Stone Carving
Karin and her small team of artists create beautiful memorials
using traditional tools and materials. Her studio and surrounding property
are beautiful, calm, and the perfect place to find inspiration. She is a
lover of letters and graciously showed me the carving process on a piece of
slate. I was then able to try it myself on both softer marble and harder
slate.
A carving
for a soldier in progress
Karin demonstrating how to carve letters
Trying my hand at carving
Visiting the
Rock of Ages
Quarry: Barre, Vermont
I was able to take a tour of the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite
quarry at nearly 600 feet deep. I watched as they prepared
to cut peices of Barre gray granite and lift it with the steel derricks. I
then toured the factory where I saw artisans both hand-carve and laser-etch
future gravestones. My daughter and I also tried our hand at sandblasting
at their Cut-In-Stone Center.
Factory Floor
Gravestone In Progress
Gravestone Blanks Ready To Carve