Moi,

it's a nice image. As you yourself noted the stone
appears to perfect both in geometry and finish. Some
normals to rough it up may help, you can even use a
a macro to chip random small blocks off the stone
(look at trace function for that).

The engraving doesn't look quite right to me either, its
so black. Did you texture after the cutting? You can also
use cutaway_textures later but it sometimes doesn't work
when cutting with complex geometry. Also try using some
radiosity as it may help illuminate within the letters.
Maybe it should be less deep as well?

The skull looks a bit odd too. Maybe a black on white
contour-based drawing of a skull would be better suited,
then cut away the dark parts. Something like this:

http://www.clker.com/cliparts/1/9/0/4/11954356601633557489ryanlerch_skull_and_crossbones.svg.med.png

A small amount of focal blur might be useful as
the object of interest is close up.

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