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Can anybody recommend a manufacturer of rock signs flint?
Hi All
Customer has asked me to make a sign for his house out of rock/stone, he said it was called Flint but I have not heard of it or find it on Google 😕 Can anybody recommend a quality manufacturer of rock signs for houses.
I also think it might be fairly big but don’t know anything yet other than it is to be engraved on to Flint Rock/stone.
cheers
Warren
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5 Replies
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give this fella a ring Warren……he’ll tell you exactly what you need
sorry no help at all but too good an opportunity to pass up 😳
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Do you suppose he means slate?
I wonder if he was referring to a sandblasted rock.
People get them all the time here as house signs.
These are from random sites I found on the Net:
http://www.signcrafter.com/html/carved_slate.html
http://www.graphicencounters.com/5.html
Love….Jill -
Warren, being surrounded by slate quarries and a few sheep I have a few memorial slate workers local that do traditional hand carved, machined and sandblasted signs in slate. If its small enough, or they have a ton of cash anything is possible…………. :lol1:
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I dont think flint is slate, flint is a very hard material, hence its use in cig lighters, no idea where to get it or how to machine/process it.
we had a fairly local pub called the Flintstones, nothing to do with Fred and Barney, but it had a flintstone finish, sort of pebble dash
Peter
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flint is what most of the south coast (uk) beaches are made of (the pebbles anyways), very very hard, as Peter says, layers of it sit in the chalk cliffs, easy to get hold of, good for building traditional sussex houses, barns, and walls, but no good for working unless you’re a cave man, in which case it makes for very good cutting tools and arrow/spear heads !
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