1. Use permanent marker to sketch an outline for two tombstones. Keep shapes simple so it's easier to cut out.
2. Cut Foam.
3. Cut foam along sketched outline with a serrated bread knife.
4. Draw Design.
5. Sketch out tombstone design.
6. Carve Design.
7. Carve sketched design with a serrated paring knife.
8. Spray-Paint Tombstones.

And hit it with a heat gun. This looks awesome just make sure to wear a mask when you do it next you'll cover your entire tombstone in dry lock.

Just a nice big block. There. Okay we'll let that dry it's garden stake here started as one piece I already cut it into two.

Okay so about that far we'll do the other. Side. Okay now I'm gonna rotate it. And we're gonna do the other side. So now what we're gonna do is we're going to cut the top of the tombstone.

And a date and a little epitaph. So we cut out these stencils. And now we're going to put them on the. Tombstones our stencils are on and it's time to fill in our letters.

To make headstones, blocks are cut out from the selected stone to be shaped and cut into individual headstones. Cutting can be done with pneumatic drills, but water jet cutting is an increasingly popular option because it is highly efficient, effective and precise.

Most gravestones made over the last few centuries are made of a few types of rock: marble, slate, and granite are the big three. Sometimes you run into darker stones made of gabbro, maybe a few sandstone markers, but especially in more recent monuments, marble and granite (and other plutonic rocks) rule the roost.

The styrofoam is waterproof, but the paint may rub off if you start messing with them even if they aren't wet.

Just clean the area around the grave, place the pavers in a ring around the perimeter of the grave, and then fill the space between the pavers with soil. It will raise the ground level and help support the weight of the headstone or tombstone.

Most gravestones made over the last few centuries are made of a few types of rock: marble, slate, and granite are the big three. Sometimes you run into darker stones made of gabbro, maybe a few sandstone markers, but especially in more recent monuments, marble and granite (and other plutonic rocks) rule the roost.

Most gravestones made over the last few centuries are made of a few types of rock: marble, slate, and granite are the big three. Sometimes you run into darker stones made of gabbro, maybe a few sandstone markers, but especially in more recent monuments, marble and granite (and other plutonic rocks) rule the roost.

What Is Headstone Etching? When a granite memorial requires a more detailed image, headstone etching is the preferred method. While headstone engraving makes a deeper v-cut shape, only hand etching produces a high contrast marking on the surface of the material. Thus, it can create fine, detailed designs.

So, to sum up, historically, a “tombstone” was the stone placed on top of a stone coffin. A “gravestone” was a stone slab covering a grave. “Headstones” were generally markers denoting a grave. Today, though, all of these terms indicate a marker placed at the head of a grave.

As grave markers, tombstones offer a focus for mourning and commemoration. Typically made of stone and usually engraved with the deceased's name, date of birth and death, they also often carry inscribed tributes. They've been around a long time, across a wide variety of cultures.

In most cases, it has the deceased's name, date of birth, and date of death inscribed on it, along with a personal message, or prayer, but may contain pieces of funerary art, especially details in stone relief. In many parts of Europe, insetting a photograph of the deceased in a frame is very common.

General Headstone Sayings

• If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.
• In memories we find comfort, in love we find peace.
• Gone from our sight but not from our hearts.
• To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is never to die.
• Too well loved to ever be forgotten.