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| Jeff Black Memorials specialize in traditional style lettering, Hand cut, Raised lead & Flush lead. These all are extremely skilled, traditional crafts and cannot be offered by most memorial companies. New memorial inscriptions are normal added with the modern technique of sandblast cut letters, but can be done in traditional styles if required. Additional inscriptions can be added to an existing headstone in the cemetery / churchyard without removing of the stone. We are fully trained skilled letter cutters and can match all types of lettering. |
Inscriptions
This produces very distinctive and personal work that can be tailored to exact requirements
using hand tools that have changed very little since man decided to carve lasting images in
stone. It is an extremely skilled, traditional craft and cannot be offered by most memorial
companies.
•Flush Lead .
A technique normally used on Marble stones , although it can be done on stone as hard as
Granite. The letters are cut, normally by hand, filled with lead, which is then finished flush with
the face of the stone.
•Raised Lead.
This has the appearance of lead letters raised out from the face of the stone –normally granite.
It is an extremely skillful technique in which the letter is initially cut into the stone (normally by
hand) and lead is then ‘beaten’ in and flattened. This then allows the final letter to be marked
out on the lead and finally carved by hand.
•Machine Cut.
A less expensive technique, achieved by sand-blasting. The inscription is laid out on a
computer which produces a highly accurate stencil. The prepared stencil is then stuck onto the
face of the stone and the letters are carefully sand-blasted to cut the letters into the stone
using hand tools that have changed very little since man decided to carve lasting images in
stone. It is an extremely skilled, traditional craft and cannot be offered by most memorial
companies.
•Flush Lead .
A technique normally used on Marble stones , although it can be done on stone as hard as
Granite. The letters are cut, normally by hand, filled with lead, which is then finished flush with
the face of the stone.
•Raised Lead.
This has the appearance of lead letters raised out from the face of the stone –normally granite.
It is an extremely skillful technique in which the letter is initially cut into the stone (normally by
hand) and lead is then ‘beaten’ in and flattened. This then allows the final letter to be marked
out on the lead and finally carved by hand.
•Machine Cut.
A less expensive technique, achieved by sand-blasting. The inscription is laid out on a
computer which produces a highly accurate stencil. The prepared stencil is then stuck onto the
face of the stone and the letters are carefully sand-blasted to cut the letters into the stone
| Telephone: 028 3839 3894 Mobile: 07889 160364 |
35 Red Lion Road
Co Armagh
BT62 4HR
Northern Ireland.
Co Armagh
BT62 4HR
Northern Ireland.
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