Also called: Letter Carver, Architectural Stone Carver
Carves stone for buildings, monuments, gravestones, and restoration of historic architecture.
They chisel letters into a granite memorial or carve a replacement gargoyle for a cathedral. Pneumatic tools speed up roughing out, but final detail is by hand. Restoration of historic buildings keeps many busy.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Apprenticeship; few formal programs exist.
Ways in: Apprenticeship. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Sculpture, Historic Preservation.
Growing slowly. Small; steady restoration and memorial demand.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. CNC routers and robot arms rough out more stone; fine carving and historic restoration stay manual.
Classes: Art 3-D Design, Masonry or construction CTE, Geometry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 51-9195.
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