Designing tools capable of cutting cleanly and accurately the 15,530 names into the Portland limestone of the Armed Forces Memorial unveiled at Alrewas, Staffordshire, in front of the Queen last month (October) was not straight forward. As Encore Diamond Ltd had supplied more than 90% of all the diamond tools to Northern Ireland masons S McConnell & Sons for cutting and shaping the Princess Diana Memorial Fountain in Cornish DeLank granite, they thought producing the tools for cutting and shaping the softer Portland limestone of the National Armed Forces Memorial (see last month's NSS) would be a piece of cake.
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