The early days In the early days of stone lettering, a stonecutter simply cut freehand using a hand hammer and lettering chisels of various widths, following a mental image of the lettering content, ...

He then outlined the letters on tracing paper ... Only then did he begin taking his mallet to the chisel. A single letter could take an hour or more to carve. Mr. Benson was partial to the ...

Designers Matt Dent and Christian Davies looked into how to chisel lettering and the natural ripples of stone in hand-cut memorials. They said: "We felt it was important to treat the characters in ...

The lettering on the edge of the coin says “through courage and endurance”. Designers Matt Dent and Christian Davies looked into how to chisel lettering and the natural ripples of stone in hand-cut ...