Today has been an interesting day. I helped by dad with a recreation of the ten commandments for a VBS thing he is going to be in this coming week.
First off, stone tile was difficult to find in a stone tablet size. We bought the big 16-1/16th” tile and cut it in half. Oh no, we didn’t have a saw with a diamond blade to cut it with. I scored it with my dremel and broke it over a railroad tie to get the thing equally in half. Then we had to round the tops, so it looks like Charlton Heston stepped out of the “Ten Commandments” movie and handed us his prop.
Then, of course, someone wanted the letters carved into the tile. Tile isn’t meant for carving into. We figured that out trying to break it in half. I shouldn’t have even asked the dreaded question “What font do you want to use?”
Why did he have to choose a ‘Gothic Blackletter’ font?
We finally decided to recreate the Gothic font using charcoal and a do-it-yourself transfer paper (a piece of paper printed with the exact format on the front and charcoal over the back of the lettering on the reverse side). We bought and tried a t-shirt transfer sheet first, but that did not work at all. Apparently, t-shirt transfers only work on… well, t-shirts rather than tile.
So far it’s looking pretty good. We only have one tablet finished so far. We’ll do the other one tomorrow. I sent it home with my dad for homework. 
Maybe then, I’ll remember to take a picture of them to upload.
