Do-It-Yourself Tombstones & Other Markers with Dale Power

By Melissa Schroeder

Book Overview

Throughout history people have sought ways to mark their passing and to memorialize their loved ones' final resting places. In this book, Dale Power provides you with the tools and techniques to create long lasting, beautiful stone monuments and markers with a sandblaster. Step-by-step, with straight-forward explanations and color illustrations, Dale takes you thorugh the process from preparing the stone and sandblasting mask, through the sandblasting process itself, and finally to finishing touches that will make your monument stand out among the rest. The gallery is filled with fine examples of the sandblasting art--both old and new--to fire your creativity. Also provided are eleven designs to reproduce and ten typeface styles for easy monument and marker lettering.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764307452
• ISBN13: 9780764307454
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.8"