Classic Baroque Composite Ornamentation

Original ornamentation with missing pieces

Replicated ornamentation using WoodEpox and test mold

BEFORE AND AFTER!

Using the first mold, which has several flaws, I cast a test piece and am not displeased. My good friend Andrea, an outstanding Historic Sites consultant, gave me information about WoodEpox that is a marvelous product and as you can see, looks very much like the original Composite Ornamentation from 1926. I mounted the replicated piece on a thin piece of wood and painted it gold to see if I have to make any adjustments.

Composit castings

I have tried several methods of recreating delicate bas relief castings done in the 1920's using more modern materials but with unsatisfactory results until a friend of mine looked at the original pieces and remembered that hide glue and sawdust were used. I have found liquid hide glue and will comb lumber yards for fine sawdust. So you know what I will be doing this weekend! Pictures will be posted soon, even if the projuect does not turn out right away. We often learn more from our failures than our successes.

-doris C.