Dear Tony, Many thanks for your kind message. You are right to draw attention to:
"Letters Slate Cut" by Kindersley & Cardozo ISBN 0 9501946 7 0 where the tools and techniques are described in detail. My role in their dials is confined to the calculations and the setting out and a share of the design work. I can draw a fairly convincing sun but after that my skills come to an abrupt stop! I have spent many happy hours in the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop listening to the tap, tap, tap of the stone-cutters. It is a miracle that such a place prospers so well. The keyword of the Workshop is "excellence". Apprentices serve three years and on their very first day each is asked simply to clip a sheet of A3 drawing paper to a drawing board, so that it is straight and uncrinkled. The good ones get it right about the 20th attempt! Frank --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
