I’m thinking it might be useful to use a drawing tool something like fusion 360 software to make a design before I dive in so I can see all sides. Is there something that’s useful and easy to learn?

Unless you've been living under one of the rocks we are carving you have heard of the protest blossoming across reddit. We may get taken down or I may get banned. But it is only social media - c'est la vie. If reddit management capitulates we'll come back online with the other subreddits.

Hey there guys,

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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but I'm looking to have a stone statue/memorial created dedicated to a friend of mine, and some ideals he stood for.

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I have no idea where to look for an artist, and am currently based in Europe (norway specifically but I am from America/Italy). Do you guys have any idea where to look? Is there some stone cutters forum or marketplace you would recommend?

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Thank you for any information you can provide.

Where does everyone get their lettering templates, or does everyone freehand their letters?

Let me preface by saying I am still a relative beginner to carving, especially when it comes to locating, pricing, and purchasing stone. I live in Georgia and am looking for a piece of rough limestone about 29x22x9 inches. I got a quote from a stone center in Georgia that they can get me a rough piece of Indiana limestone for about $650. This does not include delivery as I plan to pickup myself. Is this a reasonable price or should I look elsewhere? Im also open to any recommendations on where to purchase larger pieces of limestone, especially in the southeastern United States.

I’m looking for places to get stone blocks in Washington state, preferably limestone or marble. Anybody know of any stone yards in the area that might have sizable blocks?

I’ve been carving with my Dremel and it’s just not cut out for the very hard materials I have. Any recommendation for things that have an RPM higher than 35,000 and some good diamond burrs?

Not sure if this is the right sub but I have a marble coaster that looks like this that is like 4 inches across and it has surface level scratches.

The thing is this thing is too small to use a big polishing machine and I wouldn’t even be able to hold the coaster, any suggestion’s? I’m new in this

I have an idea for a project and was hoping to get some wisdom from the hive mind. I want to carve out some stone to make pots for bonsai. What tool's would you recommend. Would a Dremel work? What bits? What safety equipment would you recommend? I've never tried this before but this idea is something I've been thinking about and would appreciate any advice.

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some tool recommendations for working basalt. The abundant stone in my area is olivine basalt, and most of the tool suggestions I can find online are for working soap stone, or marble, because basalt is hard and "bad to work with". While I understand that I'm better off working with softer, more predictable stones like soapstone or marble, I'm currently doing a material investigation into basalt as part of university degree in sculpture. I've used oxy-acetylene blowtorches to melt it into black glass, I've heated it in kilns into puddles, and I've chemically treated it in an attempt to change its colour, and my last step is working it.

So far I've been told to use an angle grinder with diamond cutting disks, and very good respirator masks for safety, but I'm also interested in hand tools, too. Currently I've just been using various old, blunt cold chisels from my University's workshop, but I'd like to get something a bit better.

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Can anyone tell me what type of stone this is ? It's been sitting in my parents garage for almost 40 years. We're looking to possibly sell it.

How would I go about selling this in the San Diego area ?