Our recent project at the Catoro Restaurant gave us some great practice for our current job. This time around we will be squeezing our features through a double set of doors instead of a single door. That means we can build the pieces at twice the scale as last time. The shop gets a little fuller each day as we weld up the giant armatures. As always, we are carefully planning how we will quickly and seamlessly bolt everything back together when we get it inside the building. As with our last experience it will all be done with hand winches and tools. Next week the pieces will be ready for the sculpted concrete shells and it will all come together in a hurry.
Welding almost done on truck
The little delivery truck is coming along nicely. Matt has been doing the bulk of the welding and we should should wrap it up tomorrow. Peter got the easy job of simply posing in the cab for the picture.
Beautiful on the inside too!
Peter created a wonderful design for the inside of the North Star door. This entry will have a Moroccan feel to it. The routing is now complete on this door. Next it will be sandblasted to bring out the edge grain and add a little texture before the painting, glazing and aging begins. Peter is also creating a one-off antique looking steel door knocker as well. This door is going to be spectacular!
