Alain, I am curious in your stonecarver friend's technique of carving. What tools does he use and etc. I think we all have an interest in making sundials which will outlast the designer. Stone seems a good medium for making a long lasting dial. I have built one dial from granit using grit blasting but I am interested in other techiques. Marble would seem to be another usefull stone but I am not familier with how to carve it other that abrasive blasting. Any info on this would be useful. Happy dialing Bob
Alain MORY wrote: > > Hi, all the sundiallers ! > > Many thanks for the answers to my request about the amarican song "home > on the range", especially to John Conolly, Gordon Uber and Dave Bell ! > Now I know all what I wanted to, and even more ! > I hope that this personal message didn't "pollute" this list. > > I realise that I forgot to present myself, the first time I subscribe : > 36 years old, schoolmaster in Alsace (France) and very old "souvenir" of > English. Sundial list will refresh my old lessons ! > Skydiver since 25 years, I'm interested in Sun, astronautics, > astro-photography, and ... sundials. I'm working with a stonecarver (or > sculptor ?) : I calculate, and he works artisticment. We realised > twenty sundials of Alsacian sandstone (yellow to rose tint). > I did create, with some friends, an association for protection and > explanation of the art of sundialling, called "DASYPODIUS". This is the > name of the dialler who created all the Strasbourg Cathedral sundials > (more than twenty only on this monument !) The more known is > "l'adolescent au cadran". > Our president, Dr Hervé STAUB, published a book about all (more or less > !) the sundials of Alsace, called "Les horloges silencieuses d'Alsace"
