How to carve a rune stone to decorate your yard/garden

Step 18: The border

with practice you can not only carve to the edge but over the edge and to the back of the stone, but for this one I stayed on one side

After all flaws which might cause problems are removed or otherwise resolved, I spend an hour or two studying the stone and considering which style and form to use. I decide to use a hybrid late style based on Oepir, which will incorporate facets of the Poetic Edda. The first step is using chalk and my hand as a caliper I draw a line marking the edges and define the boundaries I will work within.