Tombstone Workshop
The parts of a gravestone, how real New England stones changed from 1680 to 1850, later cemetery styles, and our method for laying out lettering and transferring a design onto foam.
4 parts
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Tombstone Workshop Part 1: Designing a Stone That Belongs to a Century
The parts of a gravestone, how real New England stones changed from 1680 to 1850, later cemetery styles, and our method for laying out lettering and transferring a design onto foam.
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Tombstone Workshop Part 2: Carving and Fume Safety
What each foam tool's maker says about using it, cutting before you laminate, incised and raised lettering, relief skulls and faces, and what hot-wire smoke contains according to Owens Corning, NIOSH and the EPA.
Requires: Tombstone Workshop Part 1: Designing a Stone That Belongs to a Century
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Tombstone Workshop Part 3: Coating and Weathering
A maker-backed stone coat for foam, why dark paint and clear plastic can warp XPS in the sun, a weathering palette from Golden's exterior pigment advice, and where real lichen, streaks and stains appear on old stones.
Requires: Tombstone Workshop Part 2: Carving and Fume Safety
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Tombstone Workshop Part 4: Sunken Graves and Mounting
Why old graves sink and new ones are mounded, building both without killing the lawn, ground breakers on a settled grave, and setting stones the way cemetery conservators reset real ones.
Requires: Tombstone Workshop Part 3: Coating and Weathering