Our Giant Schnauzer, Bosch, was buried last Thursday — We built a nice box for him and have it encased is a concrete burial chamber. We went to the quarry yesterday to pick out a nice piece of flag stone as his head stone — have the wording and it all laid out on the stone but the carbide bit will not make much of an impression. Was thinking a rotzip but don’t know if anyone has expertise with this sort of project. What can I use to carve his name and who has such a bit — was thinking a diamond blade and a “V” shaped point and if not the “V” then a “U” point.
He was such a good boy — never knew he was around, but he was there when you needed him to pick you up — all he needed was a warm, dry place and some food — he absolutely adored my wife and followed her room to room all day long , he never let her out of his sight and was always between her and the repair men when there was something I could not do like the annual furnace/AC check up and most plumbing
tks — Dudley
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Dudley,
So sorry to hear of your loss, have you considered doing it like they engrave headstones? They use a thin rubberish mat, to make a stencil and sandblast it. Perhaps the local monument company would do it for you.
Bee
I had not thought of sandblasting -- but have thought of going to a monument company -- but I really wanted to do it for myself as one of the last things I can do for BOSCH -- its is more of an emotional/sentimental sort of thing. I can go out and get the best but wanted something of myself a labor of love rather than the easy sort of the 'fast food society' of something done commercially.
Either Dremel or Rotozip sells a diamond engraver bit for the tool. Lowes has it.
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GEEEEEZESS BEEE..where the hell you been? we all thought ya died or or somethin worse...GLAD to see ya back!!!
UH, fix your B hammer thingy...my logo died when you disappeared...good to see ya back bro..
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Hey Sphere,
Alive and well, nice to be remembered and missed, thanx.
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coool..ya had us worried bro...welcome home.
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shucks now I have to go back to the sand box and figgur out how to put it back...or not..LOLhttp://home.centurytel.net/bsipes/sphereamid.jpg
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Hi bee
Sorry to hear about losing a member of the family. We had two great four legged members so can empathize with what you are going through.
I used to sell to the Monument and glass industries. The product they used was from 3M and was called Resist. It is adhesive backed rubber with peel off paper. It comes in ten yard rolls. Different adhesive strengths allowed for deeper or lighter blasting. They would design the pattern, cut out the design, peel off the backing , stick on the stone and blast using aluminum oxide. The blasting medium should be harder than the substrate.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Mac
Check with your dentist as he has used diamonds that will fit in a 1/8 th collet.
Super for wood projects too.
Tim Mooney
Very sad about your dog.
Sandblasting's the way to go- far more controlled than trying to engrave unless you've got the knack for it.
I engraved a Celtic heart in a piece of slate flagstone for our place. Three layers of masking tape was more resistant to the blast than 1/4" of slate- and it stuck to the irregular surface of my unpolished flagstone better than the peel-and-stick rubber resist sheet that they normally use for polished stone or glass. The slate had veins of harder (green) material which didn't engrave as deeply as the rest, but the pattern was etched just fine and looks lovely even after years of being walked on.
Plain silica sand will do just fine- don't need anything fancy.
Draw the inscription out in your favorite script on the computer, print it to the size you want or photocopy it to enlarge it. Then glue the paper with rubber cement directly to the three layers of masking tape with overlapped seams and cut cleanly through the whole works. That takes the artistry out of it a bit, but it will look really great when it's done.
Sorry about yur loss dudly...
sand blasting is an easy way to ingrave stone.... rubber cement a rubber mat on to the stone.. carve out yur lettering and then sand blast away...
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I have had trouble with the buttercut (rubber type resist) on limestone . Use duct tape in three to four layers overlap the seams. I would not use masking tape . The reason is that it sometimes peals away faster than the stone .I think it is to risky , when you should have ducttape anyway to post here. Cut out your letters with an exacto knife . Keep a fine selfstick sandpaper near by to sharpen the knife every few cuts. Then sandblast in a crossing pattern then upand down . Then in a diaginal pattern if needed . If you have any little details blast them first . Then do the other patterns over the whole stone. Hope this helps.