Has anyone repaired a broken tombstone? One of my ancestor's is broken and I want to fix it, but don't know what kind of adhesive you would use. Does anyone have a suggestion? angela

Have no idea how to repair a tombstone wish I did but here is a rather unique way of makind another one , This came from another list I belong to and Beth gave premession to pass it on . Frances How to make a new headstone >>I have a little time so thought I would write the instructions down for you >>in the simplest form that I can so that the beginners may understand them. >>To someone of you it will be old hat. >> >>Now, if you have a marbel bread board or just a hardwood breadboard, >measure >>it and add four inches to both the longth and width. Now you are ready to >>take that use pallet or some 1/4 inch x 4 innch boards and saw them so >that >>you have two board the length and two boards the width. Now nail them >into >>forms. Hammer them together lightly for you will later be knocking them >>apart. Set this form aside. >> >>Now take a piece of paper (I use copy paper) and write or print (what ever >>you do best) on this paper the name of the person who you want this stone >>for and the information that you wish. Under the date of birth and death, >I >>usually write the place and also wife of - or husband of - or son of - or >>etc. with the appropreate name and information. >> >>Now, for some of you this next part will be a piece of cake, for other of >>lyou, take courage, you can do it, or if you wish, just forget it. >practice >>makeing a curve line with three cross's on it to put in either the lower >>right side of the stone or in the upper left corner. Or if the stone is >>for a child, you may want to make two circles with ears on the top circle >>and a tail on the bottom circle. You may make simple rabbits, cats, >>flowers, leaves etc. Use you own ideas but keep them VERY SIMPLE >> >>Now, with a WASHABLE marking pen, put the design you decided upon onto the >>marble breadboard or wooden breadboard. If you make a mistake, wash it off >>and redo it untill you are satisified. It need not be perfect. This is a >>personal headstone and it gives a loveing touch to have someone take the >>time to make it, a slight errors is fine. >> >>Now take a dremell tool with a diamond engraveing bit and engrave what you >>have written. >> >>It is fine without doing the painting step, however, I usually do. I take >>model paint and paint what has been engraved. If it is a little girl, I >>might make the bunny white and flowers (five little circles with a small >>circle in the middle and two line curving out from this) pink with the >small >>circle yellow. For a little boy, I might make a little cat and paint it >>white - orange - brown etc with flowers of blue with small circle of >>yellow - the curves of green. When you have done this to your >>satisfaction, spray LIGHTLY with polyurethene. You can get a can of >>polyurthene airisal at a hardware store or a craft store, let it dry and >>spray again LIGHTLY about three times. set the breadboards aside >> >>Now take the wooden forms and set out in the back yard on some grass where >>it won't be noticed, Take the bag of ready mix concrete and mix in a >>container, I use an empty 5 gal. detergent bucket. Pour this mix into the >>form up to about 2 inches from the top. Let this sit for a while untill it >>is firm enough to hold up the beadboard, when the bread board is place in >>the center of the form and press down even with the mix. >> >>Now I let this concrete and breadboard sit overnight to dry. When the >>concrete is dry, knock the frame form away. I keep these forms for the >>next time I want to make a stone. Now take a small can of liquid >>polyurthene ( you may buy at a hardware or paint store) and pour on the >>whole gravemarker, breadboards and concrete, smooth with an old paint brush >>and let dry. >> >>Your gravestone is now complete. All you have to do now is pick it up and >>take it to the grave and set it in place. I hope that you are proud of >>your efforts. For those of you that wish, send me you snail mail address >>and I will send you the patterns that I have used and you may copy that >form >>but for those of you who are advance, use your own artist skills You might >>even want to make a form for the base and then another larger form to sit >on >>it with the information. If you run into problems, just e-mail me. Let me >>know how you do. >> >>Looking forward to hearing from you. >> >>Beth --- Daniel & Angela <dthornton@mwsi.net> wrote: > Has anyone repaired a broken tombstone? One of my > ancestor's is broken and I want to fix it, but don't > know what kind of adhesive you would use. Does > anyone have a suggestion? > > angela > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/