Malcolm Schweizer
05-09-2023, 2:14 PM
Good day all:
Where, oh where is Malcolm these days? Well, I’ve been around, just couldn’t post much because I was doing restorations for someone who forbade me to post any work online because a lot of the pieces were in private collections and sometimes those folks don’t want their stuff shared.
I am now back in my own shop and have been restoring a massive built-in mirror for a historic home. This project required me to replicate mouldings using hollows and rounds. Here is a video:
https://youtu.be/QafiJQUDKYA
I also am having to do a lot of hand carving on these capitals- gluing in repairs and carving to match. One photo is mid-stream, the other is after carving and I’m now blending colors. (Two different capitals in different stages.)
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Here is the moulding I am replicating and the replica completed and ready for stain:
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Here is the piece. There are columns that mount on the pedestals. The smaller mirrors go left and right of the larger one.
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Where, oh where is Malcolm these days? Well, I’ve been around, just couldn’t post much because I was doing restorations for someone who forbade me to post any work online because a lot of the pieces were in private collections and sometimes those folks don’t want their stuff shared.
I am now back in my own shop and have been restoring a massive built-in mirror for a historic home. This project required me to replicate mouldings using hollows and rounds. Here is a video:
https://youtu.be/QafiJQUDKYA
I also am having to do a lot of hand carving on these capitals- gluing in repairs and carving to match. One photo is mid-stream, the other is after carving and I’m now blending colors. (Two different capitals in different stages.)
501032 501033
Here is the moulding I am replicating and the replica completed and ready for stain:
501034 501035
Here is the piece. There are columns that mount on the pedestals. The smaller mirrors go left and right of the larger one.
501036