Just finished pouring the 5th section- the base for this mold and it can come apart in a half hour or hour. It took a box 16″ square and 5-1/4″ deep to fill it high enough to cover his nose by about one inch. I also ordered some slip to try out, it was a real pain trying to find what I wanted, and then when I did, I found they can’t ship those 2 gallon boxes via UPS. A couple of places can ship one gallon slip containers but one place had a $26 price plus UPS for one gallon. As I know it took one gallon of rubber…

I haven’t worked on this much this last week as I’m on vacation from work, and I also spent a couple or three days repointing the brickwork on my gallery building, but it’s making progress. The puttis’ hands were not easy, I worked on those  and his face yesterday, and today mostly two of the lion’s paws that were only roughed out.

I finally had time this week to set about repointing the brick on my gallery building, the weather was just perfect, warm, nice breeze, low humidity and sunny. I had to rust treat the exposed steel I beam flange, prime and paint it first, then I began work on the mortar repointing. It’s just another of those periodic kinds of maintenance things I have to stop work on other projects to do. Most of the facade is good, it was just a couple of courses of brick all the way across where the mortar was like sugar an inch in, obviously that had been repointed very poorly. After I finished repointing…