{"id":2926,"date":"2017-05-30T09:50:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2017-05-30T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:50:46","slug":"converting-294-keystone-to-terracotta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/converting-294-keystone-to-terracotta\/","title":{"rendered":"“converting” 294 keystone to terracotta"},"content":{"rendered":"

filled the mold for this with water to see how much it takes, it too just about 2 gallons, so that gives me an idea how much rubber it would take to make a positive cast to turn this design into terra cotta too, it would fit in my kiln easily.
\nInteresting thing about this piece is, way back around 1978 I was looking for work and not having much luck finding anything, somehow or other I got the idea to look in the yellow pages and one thing led to another I called this place uptown called “Gargoyles” and I remember trying to see if they might take some casts on consignment or something.
\nOne thing led to another and they had me come up to the showroom\/factory with one of these, turned out the piece was too big for them to use, but while they couldn’t do anything along those lines they offered me a job instead!
\nTurned out one of the two plaster casters was leaving in one week- talk about luck!
\nI was there for about 5 years casting small statues and mirror frame piecs until I had to move out of the city completely.
\nStill keep in touch with the boss all these years later!
\nOdd thing was they were at 221 E 21st st in Manhattan, bought a building in Brooklyn about the time I had moved to Brooklyn, and their new address in Brooklyn was 221, 21st st! Meanwhile I moved from 621 Broadway in Manhattan to 621 Bergen St Brooklyn, same number, street name starts with a “B”<\/span><\/p>\n

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filled the mold for this with water to see how much it takes, it too just about 2 gallons, so that gives me an idea how much rubber it would take to make a positive cast to turn this design into terra cotta too, it would fit in my kiln easily. Interesting thing about this piece is, way back around 1978 I was looking for work and not having much luck finding anything, somehow or other I got the idea to look in the yellow pages and one thing led to another I called this place uptown called “Gargoyles” and I remember trying to see if they might take some casts on consignment or something. One thing led to another and they had me come up to the showroom\/factory with one of these, turned out the piece was too big for them to use, but while they couldn’t do anything along those lines they offered me a job instead! Turned out one of the two plaster casters was leaving in one week- talk about luck! I was there for about 5 years casting small statues and mirror frame piecs until I had to move out of the city completely. Still keep in touch with the boss all these years later! Odd thing was they were at 221 E 21st st in Manhattan, bought a building in Brooklyn about the time I had moved to Brooklyn, and their new address in Brooklyn was 221, 21st st! Meanwhile I moved from 621 Broadway in Manhattan to 621 Bergen St Brooklyn, same number, street name starts with a “B”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}