Making Lists
Only works if I can remember wher I put the goddamn thing....Sigh...then I jus go ahead and go back to making strange pictures. So much time flying by.
T or F ?
Art is about organizing information.
Love
Problem: My friend needs to carve solid blocks of oak into curved, twisting handrail sections in order to finish a staircase for a client. Ok. Here we go. After slogging through a sixty year old handbook written by a master Italian rail carver from San Francisco, making extremely accurate measurements of the staircase, studying everything I could on the internet about his system (called the tangent handrail method), brushing up on my plane and solid geometry, and drawing for four days straight, we ended up with this drawing on a full sheet of MDF (4 ft x 8 ft plus a little) which would (theoretically) accurately describe the three dimensional shape of a curved handrail if it were projected onto flat surface, like a block of wood.: So, ok, next we glued up a big ol hunk of MDF to practice our carving and test our layout on. The THM gives you a big crescent shape, called the face mold, and some accurate angles that will eventually create the twist in the section, which you can see ...
funny, that convo has stuck with me as well, and it has come up in my classes and readings. so far, the general consensus is you are right.
ReplyDeletewhat a wise man! when we get to that field, i got a good book for you to read.
love!