We work in almost all cemeteries in the Lafayette, Louisiana area.  Nick Camel can design any type of headstone or tomb to your perfection. 

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Preneed Pricelist for Granite tombs:

 A. Single Vault with granite slab and headstone.                          

 B. Single Vault with granite slab, rails, and headstone.                 

 C. Double Vault with granite slab and headstone.                         

 D. Double Vault with granite slab, rails and headstone.                  

Side by Side Granite Tombs:

 A. Two single vaults, granite slabs, and headstone                

 B. Two single vaults, granite slabs, rails and headstone             

$8,200.00

C. Two double vaults, granite slabs and headstone                 

D. Two double vaults, granite slabs, rails, and headstone         

How Granite Headstones

are Made?

1.  Quarrying the Granite for Headstones.

Granite Headstones are made from granite that was formed hundreds of millions of years ago from molten lava. After cooling, granite rock formations were formed throughout the world where many quarries are now established. At these quarries huge blocks of granite are extracted by means of drilling, blasting and sawing. The blocks are then sent to a factory where automated saws and polishers with the help of skilled workers cut and polish the stone for different applications such as building materials and granite headstones. When used as a grave memorial, skilled craftsman and artists utilize the benefits of modern technology to create a work of art that is worthy of memorializing a departed loved one.

2.  Design and Lettering Process.

The process of creating a granite headstone starts with a piece of granite that has already been cut to the specified size and with the appropriate finish. In most instances the surface to be engraved is polished. An artist lays on the surface of the granite headstone a stencil made of rubber with an adhesive backing in which the design and lettering has already been transferred to. The artists will now cut the design and lettering out with an artist's knife such as an X-Acto knife. Today, many companies are now using efficient computer stencil cutting machines that allow for greater accuracy and higher volume output. When the design and lettering is cut out from the stencil, the artist will pull out the area of the design to be engraved thus exposing the surface of the granite headstone.

3.  Carving Granite Headstones

Granite headstones are placed in a sandblasting room for the final carving process. A sandblaster using high air pressure and sand forced through a nozzle at the tip of the hose carves the design and lettering out on the granite headstone. The area of the granite headstone covered by the stencil is well protected. Sandblasting is very much like erosion only at a very high rate of speed and in a controlled environment. After sandblasting, the carved areas are colored in black to provide more contrast so the lettering and design will stand out. The person sandblasting the granite headstone will now put the finishing touches and prepare it for delivery in you local cemetery.

Headstones

A. Veteran Companion Marker

B. Hickey Marker (Stand up or lay down)

C. Slant Headstone

D. 2-0x0-4x1-2 Headstone with base and vase

E. 2-0x0-6x1-6 Headstone with base and vase

F. 2-6x0-6x1-6 Headstone with base and vase in headstone

G. 3-0x0-6x1-6 Headstone with base and vase in headstone

H. 1-4x0-4x1-2 Wing Monument w/ base and base in middle