Requiem for the Departed to Live Forever Via Tombstone Engraving By CNC Router

Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 after the Constitution of America was established describing it as an appearance that promised permanency but in this world there are only two things that are permanent death and taxes.

This blog is more about perpetuating death and less about taxes. Most people like to be remembered – by the people who are alive want to remember the dead and so it became perhaps one of the earliest professions of a tombstone engraver and the engraver’s place of work was the cemetery. Even today, it is common for a stone-mason and his assistant busy chipping names and dates on granite stones (if the people are middle class) and marble (if the people are wealthy). It is also normal for the stonemason to be replaced by a small workshop equipped with a stone engraving CNC router machine. Both the manual and machine coexist.

In the video clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2P0FXBTGvU) the CNC router is quickly finishing the cross on the headstone of a tombstone. The speed of the router is amazing. Laser etching CNC machines are also employed for tombstone engraving. This is an expensive method and only the wealthy can afford the laser etching. However, for a tombstone accuracy is not really required and speed is not a constraint for the departed. The router in the video clip is made by OMNI CNC, which is a reputed CNC router manufacturer from China. The stone CNC router is specially built with heavy duty frame work and solid rib welding that houses the high power spindle and advanced control system.

The table is also rigidly built and the heavy-duty construction allows different kinds of tombstones such as granite, marble, soapstone and other natural materials for engraving. THhe design input takes text and other designs such as the Catholic cross and the G-coded technology makes short work of the engraving in no time. The process is very fast and accurate.