That 1.9m tablet pictured at the link looks like polished “Jet Black” granite with ‘skin cut’ letters.
I am in the monument trade. People today get tomb stones in that style, and much more than once, I have come upon such a person while he was in the middle of re-thinking the wisdom of such shallow letters.
They ask me if I can cut the letters deeper. I say “yes, but then you’d have to pay for it and you would not like that.” They then invariably say ‘But look how SHALLOW they are, won’t they disappear with time’?
That’s when I laugh. I laugh and I laugh and I laugh...
Please explain the term...skin cut...thanks.