Table of contents...

• Other sites I've created
• Gargoyles
• Stone
• Art and Architecture
• Chicago, my home town; it's more than just Al Capone and Michael Jordan!
• Gothic - Medieval in the 21st Century?
• Help in stopping spam

Other sites I've created

• I work closely with the master marble carvers in Italy, and I can import their wonderful fireplaces for you. See Marblestudio.com for photos and information.
• The NT Fax FAQ is the comprehensive source for information on fax software for Windows NT.
• Tuscanydentist.com Pietrasanta, Italy is THE place for marble and carving, but if you need a great dentist while you're there, visit Paolo and Antonella.
• Looking for Free Scalable Bitmapped Fonts? Look no further- I've posted a page of rare Old English fonts, for your enjoyment- you may be surprised...

Gargoyles

• Gargoyles at Washington University
• Shamey Metalcraft, Specializing In Fine Gold Custom Jewelry. I wear one of his gargoyles on my hat!
• Goblin Design will connect you to strange creatures all over the web.
• The Gargoyle Underground is a classic from the early days of the web. Longer being updated, it might fade off the web some day.
• New York City gargoyles. Pictures of loads of my good friends, with directions to help you find them.

Stone

• I maintain a very useful collection of Marble varieties with images of the 200 various stones.
• The Stone Carvers Guild is a group of independent working professional carvers throughout the United States.
• Lynn Streeter's marble sculpting classes in Italy. http://www.marblesculptingitaly.com
• Stone World Magazine, a trade journal of the U.S. stone industry.
• Natural Stone. Tips, links, resources. They offer an excellent CD-Rom database of marble images and specs.
• FindStone is a natural stone portal site full of stone related links. The stone album has 1700 images.
• Gotmarble.com, a directory of natural stone products, vendors and sources.
• InfoTile, the Internet Tile Center, links to loads of ceramic and marble tile suppliers.
• Sculptor.org has links to sources of stone, tools, books and other information for sculptors
• Learning Stone from Portland, England, has info on carving workshops, extensive stone and sculpture links, and an e-mail discussion list.
• The Marble Institute of America has lots of info on marble, including stone maintenance and cleaning information.
• The Indiana Limestone Institute provides history, information and links for the stone I use most often.
• Rumford fireplaces, loads of information on building Rumford masonry fireplaces.
• The Compleat Sculptor in NYC is a good source for basic carving tools. They also stock marble, and a full range of sculpture supplies.

Art and Architecture sites...

• Letterheads is the site for sign painters, pinstripers, gilders, and their ilk...
• Enrique Vega's metal sculpture and architectural metalwork resource site.
• Once you have one of my Fireplaces installed in your house, you'll need andirons and a screen from Rick Andrus Design to complete the room!
• The Washington National Cathedral. I worked there for five years, carving gargoyles and ornaments.
• Stephen Dubov, sculptor and painter.
• Midwest Tool Collectors Association. Collectors and researchers of antique tools and trades.
• Sam Alfano's engraving. Sam does wonderful engraving, mostly on knifes and guns, and spices up his site with his banjo music.

Chicaga, Chicaga,...

• The Chicago Architecture Foundation site will tell you about this city, home to so much wonderful architecture.
• The Chicago Historical Society has a wonderful, elaborate exhibit for the 125th anniversary of the Chicago Fire.
• Chicago Graveyards, a a tour of the cemeteries of our fair city. I love visiting cemeteries, they are museums of stone carving.

Gothic- No, I don't wear black clothes, and if you ever visit my dusty studio you shouldn't either!

• This site was the feature of the month of Gothic Chicago.
• Alsirat City of the Silent- a site devoted to graveyards, those wonderful outdoor museums of carved stone memories.
• Medieval Culture - links to sites celebrating the culture of the middle ages.

Help Stop Spam...

• The Mail Abuse Protection System is a tool used by ISP's. It maintains a real time database of Rogue servers, enabling ISP's to quarantine the spreaders of spam.
• The Urban Legend Combat Kit - tired of chain letters, hoaxes and "too good to be true" e-mails? Here is the down and dirty truth behind them.
• Essential how-to guide for using e-mail.

Web site design and graphics by Walter S. Arnold