Can you move a little to your right?

Monday the film crew from Communications (http://www.iocommunications.com) traveled up from Houston to our shop in Lubbock Texas. They came up to film the ongoing work on the Column Capital. I talked earlier about them filming the mold making process on site where we made rubber molds of the only remaining elements of these capitals. (see Lights Camera Action)

After making the rubber molds I shipped the molds to Lubbock and our shop started making the model. Matt Henson Jr. (my son) created a profile of the wall and the top of the capital. It is laying on its side so the wall surface is vertical and the part that juts out into the room is now horizontal. He also raised it up so I would not have to bend over too much. They then cast plaster in the rubber molds and installed them to the precise measurements that I provided on site.

So now we have a correct representative of what is left on site with a model at our shop. Now we can fill in the missing parts. We cut out templates and installed lathe to support the middle and start creating the shape of the capital. Now we will need to fill in the missing areas with clay and start carving out the design. The film crew wanted to capture this phase of the work and although we are just starting this process they could only come up now or wait another month. But in a month we will be almost totally done with the capital. So they decided to come up now.

They also set up an interview session asking my son and me about issues that are specific to this project and issues pertaining to historical restoration in general. It was a interesting and fun day.