Electric hand tool to carve letters into small-med. stones?

Question

Anyone know a small electric tool I can use to carve letters or glyphs into small stones? Hopefully not expensive.

Answer 1

Depending on the detail of the engraving that you want to do,
you might find the lower priced dremel models a little light for engraving on stone. The better ones have better features and should do well on fine detail work. You might expect to pay over $150 for a Dremel digital high speed.

What you need is the right tool for stone, and a diamond tip - most are not cheap.

Carbide tips are usually fine for engraving metal, plastic, wood, glass, stone, wood and ceramics. They'll do, usually.

Yes, you can get the same engravers in the hardware aisle and tool departments in discount and department stores and in home improvement stores.


Granite City Tool
GCT Stone Etching Tool Engraver
about $21.50
GCT Stone Etching Tool Diamond Tip
about $15.50

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I did it with a dremel, but it wasn't that good. I used a cheap tip though. Also I used a very hard stone. Soap stone works well with a dremel, but the dust may have asbestos. I carved with alabaster and the dremel is slow going. Buy a diamond tip bit if you want to try with harded stones.

Answer 4

I would think a dremel with the right tip on it would work, they sell them at lowes and some hobby stores.

Answer 5

A dremel tool.

Answer 6

dremel with a diamond bit, its not real cheap but you can use it for lots of other things in various crafts, i used the diamond bit to decorate glasses and so on. i sold lots of them with runes and pentagrams on them at renfairs. good luck.