Slate house signs with raised letters

Our slate house signs are made by first cutting the slate to size, then applying a thick rubber stencil and finally sand-blasting away the exposed slate. Instead of sand-blasted out the letters we can remove the backgound leaving the letters raised. The letters are left unpainted.

background carved (oval) leaving unpainted raised letters font - Souvenir

background carved (circle) leaving unpainted raised letters font - Bitstream Argus Bold

House signs made in this way usually looks best if done within a circle/oval or square/rectangle with round corners. However on the 4" slate we do sometimes blast away the background completely. The depth of letters depends on how hard each individual piece of slate is. It is also important to use quite a bold font in order to get a reasonable depth of cut. If the font has thin lines the rubber stencil will give way before we can blast much of the surrounding slate away.

This method can be done on any of the sizes of slate house sign and the pricing is the same as for the engraved and painted signs.

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