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Make Foam Look Like Carved Granite!by Creativeman on January 18, 2009

Table of Contents

Make Foam Look Like Carved Granite! .............................................................................................

Intro: Make Foam Look Like Carved Granite! ......................................................................................

Step 1: Cut out your letters ...................................................................................................

Step 2: Glue Letters to Foam ..................................................................................................

Step 3: Ready to Spray ......................................................................................................

Step 4: Spray Your Sign .....................................................................................................

Step 5: Complete your Sign ...................................................................................................

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Author:Creativeman author's website

Retired, doing art work now. Great. Have the time and the money to spend doing what I want to do.

Intro: Make Foam Look Like Carved Granite!I like to make signs, so when I saw an excellent instructable on making foam "sandblasted" signs, my ears perked up! I make them too, but have what I think is a simpmethod. Check it out.

Image Notes1. Note fine detail obtainable with this method.2. Got too rambunctious with the paint! Actually ate all the way through!

Image Notes1. Hey, I like to make signs!

Step 1: Cut out your lettersIn this step, you make the letters to be used for the resist. The letters prevent the foam from dissolving, much the same as in sandblasting. I use my word processingprogram to print out the message I want to use. The letters are easily cut out with scissors as seen in the picture.

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Image Notes1. Here I made the word in duplicate, and used a grey color for demonstrationonly. Usually, I will just use the outline feature to save on my ink.2. Cut out with scissors (much easier than a craft knife!)

Image Notes1. I chose "stone" for demonstration purposes.

Step 2: Glue Letters to FoamIn this step, the letters are placed where you want them and glued in place. I use regular white glue in generous amounts to insure complete adherence. Don't overdo

though, or you will be waiting a long time for the glue to dry.

Image Notes1. Foam blank precut using hotwire machine. In the planning stage, decide howlarge, how thick, etc. Plan ahead!

Image Notes1. Reminds me to PA!


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Image Notes1. Here you can see the letters and edge pieces glued to the foam blank.

Step 3: Ready to SprayPick a spray paint that contains acetone, the key to dissolving the foam. This will be listed on the ingredients label as "Ketones". Test the paint to make sure it works.

Image Notes1. A practice piece to test paint. Yep, it works!

Step 4: Spray Your SignStart spraying as you would any project...not too thick, not too thin. The correct amount is determined by experimentation, but it's hard to over spray. If the paint poolswill eat all the way through.


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Image Notes1. Spraying the sign. Note how the letters stand out as well as the edge strips. Looks good, but I did this three times to increase the definition.

Step 5: Complete your SignAfter spraying as many times as you think necessary, sign is ready to finish. Choices include leaving the resist paper on and painting perhaps, or removing the paper fa more "chiseled" look. Take your pick. See samples for various results. The possibilities for making signs is endless: think tombstones, house numbers/plaques, gardmarkers,direction signs, and so on.

Image Notes1. Completed sign with resist, or paper left intact. I have used my stencil brush tocolor over the black paint and make it stand out better.2. Other finishing options: use spray faux rock finish, use different colors ofacrylic paints to weather, highlight, make it your own!

Image Notes1. With this sign, the paper had been removed for a more chiseled effect. AgaiI use a stencil brush to keep it simple.


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Image Notes1. Close up for detail. Looks like stone, eh?

Image Notes1. Another view.

Image Notes1. Note fine detail obtainable with this method.2. Got too rambunctious with the paint! Actually ate all the way through!


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beststriker says: Dec 16, 2014. 8:22 AM REPBeautifull letters in granite, is possible to make it granite setts also?

Erchan says: Feb 8, 2014. 11:18 AM REPHi, this really great project. I wonder what kind of foamboard must use? Do you know the technical specifications of your foamboard used in this project?

There are EPS (EXPANDABLE POLYSTYRENE) and XPS (EXTRUDE POLYSTYRENE) at the marketplace. XPS is harder material than EPS includessome kind of chemicals. EPS is usually white color and softer material than XPS. Moreover, these products are produced in various densities of between

10kg/m3 - 30kg/m3. The higher the degree If density material is getting so hard. It also increases flexibility density decreases. Please tell me which one didyou use, or which do you recommend?

And did you ever mean to use a different dissolving chemical? May be spraying only acetone or liquid gas etc.?

Thank u

vampysleuth says: Jun 1, 2013. 12:20 AM REPHi Cman, if I glue my resist letters to the foam, then want to remove them, how will they come off?

Creativeman says: Jun 1, 2013. 4:48 AM REPThey will just peel off. If there is any resistance, soak with water then remove.

foobear says: Apr 13, 2013. 8:10 AM REPDoes this technique work on craft foam sheets? (I just tried it with no luck.... maybe I should try using straight acetone). Thanks!

Creativeman says: Apr 13, 2013. 9:37 AM REPNo, only use eps foam or styrofoam!

ClayOgre says: Jan 19, 2009. 7:15 AM REPDo you realize what you've got here? I have seen stuff on the net where people have gone to great lengths to build CNC milling machines to cut foam.

Why? so they can do lost foam casting with metal. I can see where you could perhaps use this technique to make the mold.

Have you tried it with other types of foam? I.e. like the pink or blue tight cell foam used for insulation?

What if you just used a squirt bottle to mist the foam with straight acetone?

Creativeman says: Jan 20, 2009. 6:29 AM REPHey Clay: My experiments show that this method does not have enough control for making molds...maybe you can do better...I tried the blue and itseems pretty much the same. So either or. Acetone would be too strong, you could dilute it, but why bother? Thanks. Cman

stringstretcher says: Oct 5, 2011. 12:38 PM REPpieces that are cast are usually over dimensioned and worked up later using milling machines and the like. This may well work for certainapplications! Cool!

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ClayOgre says: Jan 20, 2009. 10:37 AM REPhmmm, enough control. Well, then if one were to use it for metal casting, then each object cast would be one of a kind, which would have it's ownpossibilities.

Creativeman says: Jan 19, 2009. 7:53 AM REPThanks for the info...I have seen other processes of course, but what I do is try to duplicate those processes with what I have on hand. Isn't that what ais? Some of those machines are 50-100K! Mymehods are free (almost) I've heard of lost wax molding....but I like "Lost foam"...cool. I'm going to try theblue...should be the same, but may be more controlable...we'll see. Acetone? that might work as well...I will ponder that, don't have any acetone rightnow. Thanks again, let me know what you think. Cman

ClayOgre says: Jan 19, 2009. 5:08 PM REPIf you look on youtube, there are vids of people doing lost foam. In fact, one of them is a guy who has several vids of taking one of those foam skulls thsell at Halloween time and using it to cast a funky aluminum trailer hitch decoration for a pickup truck.

maruawe says: Jan 19, 2009. 8:45 AM REPYou can use acetone,but it melts foam really fast , I use i t to melt foam to make led rocks( button battery and led taped together ,then covered in themelted foam,and rolled into shape desired). Don't know what to mix acetone with to dilute the mixture (a little help on that one if you please) but thatwould help.

Koevoet92 says: Aug 24, 2010. 12:46 PM REPI know I'm a bit out of date here but I simply wanted to thank Creativeman for this great idea, my second Instructable I've started (1st, 3'd, 4'th still inprogress :S ) that is now officially finished.Wife and I have a little cake shop and I used this idea to make a 1m x 1m board with all the cake fillings we offerAgain, thank you Mr. Creativeman

P.S. I wish your work shop was mine!

Hernando says: Jan 20, 2011. 7:00 AM REPI love your sign!If you are going to put it outside, what coating materials will you use?

Koevoet92 says: Jan 20, 2011. 2:15 PM REPThx for the compliment! but no, its inside our shop.

I have though since discovered a material -here they call it "alto impacto" (if I got it right through the wiki in English its called HIPS or High ImpactPolystyrene) - which should be able to do the job outside in not to high temp regions. Here you get them from 0,5mm onwards which cuts very easiand is 1/5 the price of Plexiglas...

somebody demon says: Jan 2, 2010. 6:49 AM REPgreat i will try it thanks a lot

SarahBellum says: Dec 31, 2009. 7:54 PM REPThanks for the great ideas! Using my standard printer, I printed my text from a word document on to adhesive shelf liner (Con-tact Paper). First I cut a piecof the paper to standard 8 1/2 by 11. So that the letters maintained accurate spacing I cut out everything using scissors and an exacto, but left a tiny lineconnecting each letter at the bottom. I easily clipped that off after it was layed out on the foam.

Since I used acetone rather than spraypaint, the paper's color was removed, but it still removed very easily, and created clear letters.

Creaturiste says: May 31, 2009. 4:58 PM REPHey, this is very cool! A combination of concepts I knew separately, brought together by you, for an efficient effect! Thanks! Now, how do we protect ourfoam sign from wear and tear? Foam is easy to bump and chip off. I'm a paper mache specialist, so I know two layers of paper towels and diluted glue willhold on quite well, but that would hage the texture quite a bit. Any good idea with common materials? I know about Rosco Foamcoat, and even Sculpt orCoat, but I'd prefer a finish that isn't palstic-like...

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robsrad says: Dec 2, 2009. 8:36 AM REPi saw this instructable and automatically thought of creativemans other instructable about making letters in concrete. So to make it more durable i wasthinking of putting the letters on backwards then useing that as a form to pour colored concrete over. I will definitly be trying this out as a christmaspresent. Nice job creativeman.

kcli says: Nov 13, 2009. 4:23 AM REPGlad to see this in the Halloween entries...good luck in the contest!

piaferre says: Aug 16, 2009. 4:19 PM REPthis is SO usefull!! so simple and great results, thanks for sharing =)

Quiff says: Apr 14, 2009. 6:59 AM REPVery nice. Is there an easy method of removal of the masking so the underneath (masked) part stays smooth? Have you tried 77 spray glue on the maskinrather than white glue and if so, did it remove cleanly?

jontjack says: Jul 9, 2009. 9:42 AM REP77 spray glue will desolve the foam as well, that has been my experience. I bought 'special foam glue' once and it was just white glue. White glue workvery well for a project of mine that stacked 10 layers of foam to form a block.

lawdog323 says: Apr 21, 2009. 9:47 AM REPwhat is resist paper Creativeman?? I love this idea. Very simple yet an awesome outcome..

Creativeman says: Apr 21, 2009. 1:07 PM REPThanks LD323: Resist is a material used in sandblasting to prevent the process from removing material under the design....I use it loosely to describe tpaper I use (which is simply cardstock) to do the same thing with the spray paint. Cman

natethegreat88 says: Mar 25, 2009. 2:01 AM REPI remember when I was like 7years old and was in cub scouts and we had to make a rocket that would travel along a clothesline kind of like a pinewoodderby. the block i got was foam and when i was done sanding I spray painted it with spray paint that had cetone in it and it ate away my whole ship and so looked like a black crumpled up peice of trash.

LindaLW666 says: Apr 4, 2009. 8:10 AM REP...and you still worry about it. now that you're 17. Look, I'll buy you another, okay? Love, LW

neubaten says: Mar 25, 2009. 8:02 AM REP

that made me feel all sad and wistful, like a scene from gummo or something. le sigh....

Lori Ell says: Mar 11, 2009. 3:16 AM REPHow clever. I love to see how creative and clever people are. Really beautiful. People who do skits and plays will love this. The stone discs are awesome.Thanks for sharing!!

Switch and Lever says: Jan 24, 2009. 7:16 PM REP1. Ensure for good ventilation, 2. Wear a mask. The fumes that comes from chemically burning foam is bloody nasty and may over time cause respiratoryproblems.

Creativeman says: Jan 25, 2009. 6:37 AM REPMy Muse always told me: "If you don't have anything constructive to say...." Cman.

Switch and Lever says: Jan 25, 2009. 5:38 PM REPMy muse always told me "That's a worthless way to look at things, if you can't take and give criticism you might as well stay at home under thesheets and never do anything with your life." But that's a sideline and really has nothing to do with this. Either way, I don't see how what I wrote is n"constructive", it's basic safety tips which I hope anyone that tries what you wrote about takes seriously. I like the instructable, just wish you'd makean addendum so people understand to do this at the very least where it's well ventilated. I'm sure you don't want to cause anyone to do undue harmto themselves, right? We had a guy here at university who did something similar in the workshop a couple of months ago, he ended up passing outand spent three days in the poisoning unit at the hospital, hence i t deserves to be taken seriously.

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Creativeman says: Jan 25, 2009. 9:48 PM REPSafety is always a concern, is basic common sense. I think your issue is like telling people to be aware that the wheels on a car will roll if the cais put in gear. May be dangerous to your health. Hence my Muse's input! Have a nice day. Cman

Switch and Lever says: Jan 26, 2009. 12:16 AM REPI don't know, if sense was in any way common we wouldn't have warning labels on chainsaws that read "Don't attempt to stop chain withhands" and so forth.

amywho says: Feb 26, 2009. 12:37 PM REPMrPumpernickel. Thank you for pointing out the obvious. I too hold this thing we call 'common sense,' but not everyone has it. The olderget the more I've learned that the greater population aren't really born with common sense. If everyone had it, there would be no such

thing as the Darwin Awards. Unsure of the reference? Google it. And the children, creativeman. Thing about the children....just becausethey're not SUPPOSED to try something like this alone, doesn't mean they wont....

dianakob2 says: Mar 11, 2009. 3:11 AM REPThanks for the heads up. I have to agree...if people used common sense, they wouldn't have need to put "contents are hot" on theMcDonald's coffee cups to let people know that if you put it between your legs and it spill...you're probably going to get burnt! BTW,the Darwin Awards are a riot!

cloudhidden says: Feb 6, 2009. 8:04 AM REPI really liked the idea. How does this hold up for exterior use?

hammer9876 says: Jan 22, 2009. 3:03 PM REPExcellent. A lot easier than sitting around carving "R. I. P." in a block of foam. The eating away part reminds me of the neighborhood kid that just wanted alittle bit of gasoline for use in our summer project. He wasn't too bright, however, because he used the garden hose and sucked some gas out of tank of his

car. (Kids, don't try this at home!) When the gas started coming out, he directed the liquid to a Styrofoam cup - which instantly dissolved. Made quite animpression on me. He went on to major in Chemistry in college. Better life through chemistry.

Creativeman says: Jan 23, 2009. 6:13 AM REPThanks. Cman

mogimbu says: Jan 22, 2009. 11:31 AM REPI made Mayan Stone Disk prop with a simalia rmethod a few years ago. The insulation foam I used has a layer of plastic cling on it. I cut out the design, thepulled off the area to be etched. I was able to use an inexpensive plant sprayer to apply acetone to the piece. I like your method as you can skip one step opainting. Well done.

Creativeman says: Jan 22, 2009. 2:05 PM REP

Thanks mogimbu...your piece is very impressive! Lots of cutting huh? Cman

duck-lemon says: Jan 21, 2009. 10:55 AM REPThis is great, wonderful use of supplies and resources. That's some very creative work there creative man! **subscribed**

Creativeman says: Jan 21, 2009. 12:52 PM REPThank you very much DL. Cman

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KEUrban says: Jan 21, 2009. 4:16 AM REPGreat idea... A good combination of technique and creativity!

Creativeman says: Jan 21, 2009. 7:43 AM REPThanks KE. Cman

Gonazar says: Jan 20, 2009. 5:02 PM REPshouldn't it be the other way around? Text carved out of the stone? its alright if you leave the paper, then it gives a metal text look, but if it's carved text theyou should use a stencil

jackcday says: Jan 20, 2009. 1:53 PM REPI'm not very font-wise. Which font did you use for the gothic "Stone" text? Great instructable btw, I'm gonna make a massive gothic "carved" J for my room:D

Creativeman says: Jan 20, 2009. 2:11 PM REPThanks...not sure about the font...maybe times new roman, bolded? Cman

webman3802 says: Jan 20, 2009. 8:14 AM REPI like to make signs, so when I saw an excellent instructable on making foam "sandblasted" signs, my ears perked up! I make them too, but have what I thiis a simpler method.

What is your simpler method? This is EXACTLY the same as the foam sandblasted signs instructible you mentioned:http://www.instructables.com/id/foam_sandblasted_sign/

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