Headstone Vase

[Forrest747]

My wifes family has a headstone that they purchased and it has no vase to keep flowers. My wife half joking said that I could make one. and the family has taken it seriously that i can do this. Heck i built a trailer from scratch I can do a space shuttle on a whim and out of toaster and vaccum parts.

So i am seriously thinking how could i do something like this. they are abour 300 to 400 dollars and no one wants to pony up the money and me smelting from scratch out of the question.

How ever the mind is turning and thinking, go to a granite slab place and see if i can get a scrap piece and drill a 3 inch hole in it, add 12 inch long 3" copper pipe that would be filled with gravel at teh end. add it at the top of the head stone.

if no scrap granite is avalaible than get some granite dust and mix with cement. im at a lost here.

[parnold]

Check with places that make the memorials. They make mistakes. I have two headstones that I used to use at halloween that were gotten for free. I finally burried them in my yard because it got to be too much to drag them out every year.

[Forrest747]

Well here it is. we went hiking up one of the canyons around here and got a few good pieces. I bought a 2" hole saw for rock and away i went. cracked two of them and put one of them back with the little gorilla glue bottle with the amber liquid. worked like a charm. i then took a black piece of PVC i had used for the grey water tank drilled some holes in the cap and glues it to the under side. next time we are down that way we will get it placed.

[rebapuck]

Before you go to the trouble, consider that flowers in a cemetary vase won't last long. And then you have an empty vase. They need water every day.

You could use silk flowers, but they are lightweight and blow away, or fall apart from the sun....Just saying.

[wagondude]

At the little cemetery where my Grandparents are, they remove all the flowers from the graves (real or silk) every time they mow. There is a big pile of rotting silk flowers in the back corner.