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History & Educational:
My Favorite links: Gargoyles, Stone, and Architecture
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Contents:
Gargoyles
Stone
Art and
Architecture
Chicago, my
home town; it's more than just Al Capone and Michael Jordan!
E-mail tools
Under the Gargoyle
The sixteen-year-old original Internet Gargoyle site, dating back to
July 1994.
Gargoyles at Washington
University
Shamey Metalcraft, Specializing
In Fine Gold Custom Jewelry. I wear one of his gargoyles on my hat!
New York
City gargoyles. Pictures of loads of my good friends, with
directions to help you find them.
I maintain a very useful collection of Marble varieties with
images of the 200 various stones.
The Stone Carvers Guild
is a group of independent working professional carvers throughout the
United States.
Lynn Streeter's marble sculpting classes in Italy.
http://www.marblesculptingitaly.com
Stone World Magazine, a
trade journal of the U.S. stone industry.
Natural Stone. Tips,
links, resources. They offer an excellent CD-Rom database of marble
images and specs.
FindStone is a natural stone
portal site full of stone related links. The stone album has 1700
images.
Gotmarble.com, a directory of
natural stone products, vendors and sources.
InfoTile, the Internet
Tile Center, links to loads of ceramic and marble tile suppliers.
Sculptor.org has links to
sources of stone, tools, books and other information for sculptors
Learning Stone from
Portland, England, has info on carving workshops, extensive stone and
sculpture links, and an e-mail discussion list.
The Marble Institute of
America has lots of info on marble, including stone maintenance
and cleaning information.
The Indiana Limestone Institute
provides history, information and links for the stone I use most often.
Rumford fireplaces, loads of
information on building Rumford masonry fireplaces.
The Compleat Sculptor in NYC is
a good source for basic carving tools. They also stock marble, and a
full range of sculpture supplies.
Art and Architecture sites...
Letterheads is the site for
sign painters, pinstripers, gilders, and their ilk...
Enrique Vega's metal
sculpture and architectural metalwork resource site.
Once you have one of my Fireplaces installed
in your house, you'll need andirons and a screen from
Rick Andrus Design to
complete the room!
The Washington
National Cathedral. I worked there for five years, carving gargoyles
and ornaments.
Midwest Tool Collectors
Association. Collectors and researchers of antique tools and trades.
Sam Alfano's
engraving. Sam does wonderful engraving, mostly on knifes and guns,
and spices up his site with his banjo music.
Chicaga, Chicaga,...
The Chicago Architecture
Foundation site will tell you about this city, home to so much
wonderful architecture.
The Chicago History Museum
Chicago Graveyards, a a
tour of the cemeteries of our fair city. I love visiting cemeteries,
they are museums of stone carving.
Essential
how-to guide for using e-mail.
Eudora, a great e-mail program.
