{"id":997,"date":"2010-10-10T19:02:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=997"},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:02:25","slug":"modelling-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/modelling-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hand building the Sullivan bank lion out of wet clay, with an estimated weight of 800# or more requires not only some mobility method, but something to raise it up to working level, at least the most important portion of it- the face.<\/p>\n<p>So I designed and built this custom made modelling stand out of heavy steel for this task.<\/p>\n<p>I used 2&#8243; x 2&#8243; x 1\/4&#8243; steel angles for the 4 legs, 2&#8243; x 1\/4&#8243; flat steel for the diagonal bracing, and heavy wall 1&#8243; tube for the top and bottom with which to bolt the top and bottom plywood to, and to hold it all together nice and secure.<\/p>\n<p>I have the steel portion finished, and primed now as shown, and Tuesday the  heavy duty 4&#8243; casters with a capacity of 550# each will arrive. Next week I&#8217;ll laminate a plywood top and one for the bottom using 3 layers of 3\/4&#8243; thick plywood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/sculpturephotos\/modstand.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Modelling a panel after Louis Sullivan for a Chicago client last summer;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"380\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R6t1kxOz5rA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"false\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/R6t1kxOz5rA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"380\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IgWxjTYCS-Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IgWxjTYCS-Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand building the Sullivan bank lion out of wet clay, with an estimated weight of 800# or more requires not only some mobility method, but something to raise it up to working level, at least the most important portion of it- the face. So I designed and built this custom made modelling stand out of heavy steel for this task. I used 2&#8243; x 2&#8243; x 1\/4&#8243; steel angles for the 4 legs, 2&#8243; x 1\/4&#8243; flat steel for the diagonal bracing, and heavy wall 1&#8243; tube for the top and bottom with which to bolt the top and bottom plywood to, and to hold it all together nice and secure. I have the steel portion finished, and primed now as shown, and Tuesday the heavy duty 4&#8243; casters with a capacity of 550# each will arrive. Next week I&#8217;ll laminate a plywood top and one for the bottom using 3 layers of 3\/4&#8243; thick plywood. Modelling a panel after Louis Sullivan for a Chicago client last summer;<\/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-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}