Gallery

Gallery

The friendly and sympathetic team at McBrides Monumental Services Ltd in Balclutha are members of the New Zealand Monumental Masons Association. We engrave and put in place new headstones and monuments, add additions to headstones and monuments and repair them. We also provide cleaning and waterblasting services to preserve monuments and headstones. Take a look at what’s involved in engraving a granite headstone and putting it in place.

The McBrides Monumental Services Ltd Workshop
The McBrides Monumental Services Ltd Workshop
The crane lifting a granite base
The crane lifting a granite base
Jenna, Apprentice Monumental Mason, working on a headstone
Jenna, Apprentice Monumental Mason, working on a headstone
Jenna drilling into granite
Jenna drilling into granite
Preparing a headstone
Preparing a headstone
Operating a forklift to pick up a gravestone
Operating a forklift to pick up a gravestone
McBrides Monumental Services completing an engraving
McBrides Monumental Services completing an engraving
Jenna lining up a gravestone for an addition
Jenna lining up a gravestone for an addition
Working around plants to add a headstone addition
Working around plants to add a headstone addition
Setting up on site
Setting up on site
Securing the addition to the gravestone
Securing the addition to the gravestone
Using the crane at the cemetery
Using the crane at the cemetery
Spraying the etching material onto the granite gravestone
Spraying the etching material onto the granite gravestone
Jenna adding pigment to the lettering of this granite headstone
Jenna adding pigment to the lettering of this granite headstone
Adding the special pigment once the etching is complete
Adding the special pigment once the etching is complete