Figures carved
from one block.
Angels, saints, busts and relief panels for cemeteries, churches and memorial complexes. Worked by our own carvers from your photograph, drawing or model — roughed by machine, finished by hand, because that is the only part that decides whether a face reads.
Twelve kinds of
carved work.
Most orders are a variation on one of these. Send a photograph of the piece you have in mind and we will tell you what it takes in stone.
How a figure
comes out of a block.
Stone is subtractive — there is no putting it back. This is why the block is sized with an allowance on every face, and why the proof is agreed before the first cut.
Scale changes
everything about the price.
Height sets the block size, the carving hours, the crate and the freight. Tell us the height first and the rest of the quotation follows quickly.
Reference to crate,
proofed at every step.
Photographs of the work in progress go to you at roughing and again at detail — a figure is too slow to fix after it ships.
Marble carves finer.
Granite lasts longer.
That is the whole trade-off. Indoors or in a warm climate, marble. Standing in a northern cemetery through freeze-thaw, granite — and we will say so even if you asked for marble.
Send the photograph
and the height.
