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On many occasions we are called in by a monument company to letter a headstone on-site in the cemetery when something has been left off the monument that should have been inscribed while the monument was in the manufacturing process. Such was the case with the monument in the photo below. The factory had overlooked adding a verse to the base. So we were able to finish the lettering up for the them on-site and save them the labour of removing the headstone, taking it back to the factory, lettering it and then taking it back to the cemetery to be reset.
Basic Credentials and Guidelines for On-Site Headstone Engraving by Inscriptions Inc.
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We are the leading full time On-Site Headstone Monument Engraving Service for Northeast Alabama, Northwest Georgia and Southeastern Tennesse.
We have been providing mobile on site Cemetery Lettering since 1984. Serving many of your area Monument Companies, Funeral Homes and Cemeteries.
Inscriptions Inc. finalizes monuments on a daily basis, placing inscriptions and epitaphs on headstones and memorials that are in cemeteries within 150 miles of Chattanooga Tn.
As stated before we are accustom to working with the local monument companies and are able to match all their lettering styles, designs and techniques.
Normally we only need to make one trip to the cemetery, because we have state of the art equipment and skilled professionals that can complete your headstone lettering job with just one visit to the cemetery. We are more than qualified to match the existing letters on your headstone.
Most of our work, but not all, comes in the form of adding a final date to a headstone when someone passes.
In the monument industry we would call this "doing death dates" or "cutting deathdates" what makes us unique is that instead of only going out to cut deathdates once or twice a month like the typical monument company would do.
We go out everyday weather permitting and we have been known to even work in the rain and snow... but only when we had to.
This work everyday approach helps us to keep our skills honed and sharpend which brings me to my next point, and that is lettering monuments in a Monument Shop and lettering monuments out in the field, on-site in the cemetery are two very different things.
I've done both, in my early days I worked in my Dad's Monument Shop we would wait until we got several death dates before we would even think about going out to cut them.
Lettering Stones on-site is much more difficult.
The Basic Guidelines for Engraving a Death Date On-Site
- 1. You have to get to the correct cemetery with all your equipment needed to complete the task.
- 2. You have to locate the stone in the cemetery. You MUST locate the correct stone and yes sometimes people have the same name and are in buried the same cemetery. (So Be Careful)
- 3. Once you have located the correct monument in the correct cemetery. You need to determine the correct letter style. This is the tricky part because so many letters look alike, so this takes a lot of practice you will have to study all the different letter styles found on monuments and memorize their tiny differences.
- 4. Once you have mastered letter styles you need to be sure to use the right letter size height, width, and boldness. You need to be very good with a measuring stick and if you use a computer to do your layout then you need to be able to convert inches to decimals for example one and a quarter inch = 1.250 If you use a computer you still really need to be able do hand cut lettering or have the capability of drawing your own letters in the computer to match. There are many scanning to vector techniques.
- 5. Pay attention to how the lettering is aligned look at the spouces lettering and spacing, ask yourself do the dates line up end to end or does everything just fall on center. The spacing and alignment can make or break you.
- 6. Cut your rubber stencil I use a friction feed sign plotter. Make sure it matches you only get one shot or you may be buying someone a new headstone.
- 7. Glue your stencil to the monument. I want to take a moment here to say before you start sandblasting you should have already checked, double checked, triple checked, even quadruple checked, the date of death you have been given. If there's a funeral home marker there, check against it as well and look at how fresh the grave is if the date says they died 10 years ago but the grave looks like they were buried yesterday RED FLAG ask yourself why? Smart phones are great check their obituary... here's a side note obituaries and funeral home markers can be incorrect death certificates are realible but the bottom line here is put what the family signed off on.
- 8. Sandblast it and stay on the rubber for God's sake keep your nozzel moving and proctect your base and vases if in doubt tape and mask it off... another side note .. ALWAYS use a clean glass in your blast helmet if you can't see it your gonna mess it up... Get in a comfortable position before you start. Always blast as deep as the existing letters.
- 9. Check for lithochrome if its got black lithochrome in it. Then put the good stuff in always do your best to match paint color and intensity.
- 10. Clean up. Always leave the stone and the grave site looking better than it did before you got there.
How to Engrave a Family Name on a Monument in the Cemetery
This monument was totally blank on this side before I added COVINGTON and the double v-line panel that you see in the photo. This lettering and panel match the style of the name and panel on the opposite side of the monument. For adding a Family name to your existing Monument or Gravestone please visit: Sandblast Family Name on Monument in Cemetery with large lettering
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by adding the date of death DEC 19, 2017 for Mary Dixon Crumbley
Located in: Fairy Valley Cemetery 8935 US-411, Crandall, GA 30711, USA
Latitude: 34.9025049 Longitude: -84.748701
This work contracted by: Jones Funeral Home
215 West Walnut Street
Chatsworth, GA 30705
Tel: 1-706-695-4544
Work completed by: cutdate.com
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I sandblasted the date of death on this headstone for Gene McNutt Abel today.I added SEPT. 18, 2017
This was located in Concord Masonic Cemetery 11019 2nd Dr, Knoxville, TN 37934
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