Some Corbels

[WarnerConstCo.]

Had to match (scale and style) new corbels to old corbels for an addition.

I just made an installed them, nothing else.

Originals, 1862ish.







Made a tracing of the smaller one's



Had to scale it to fit where they were going



Made wood patterns.



Cut outsides:

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

Stalled for a while I set up this thing to cut the insides:







Sanded for days:





Stalled again until I found a small lathe and figured out how to turn and sharpen tools and find a grinder to redo to sharpen the tools with:

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

All painted and starting to install

 

[rvieceli]

Excellent work as always Darcy.

 

[ear3]

That is one nasty scroll saw!

 

[Brice Burrell]

Nice work on the corbels.  I love the Italianate style (I believe that what it called).  We don't see it much here in Pittsburgh, seem more prevalent in the midwest.  That addition is an abomination.  It wouldn't have cost any more to hire an architect that match the stye of the house and still give you what you want.  How about you go knock on their door and tell them I don't like their architect. [tongue]  Sorry, I don't mean to derail your thread.  Again, good work and it's nice to see those older tools work. 

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

I don't care much for it either, they had good intentions, reused a lot of original parts, matched windows well, but the fit and finish inside an out, was a bit disappointing.

The house was built by someone from the baltimore area that supposedly had something to do with ships.

There are some naval/nautical keys, port hole windows in one section, the cupola on the top has a steel spiral stair case to get up there and reminds me of a wheelhouse on an old steam boat.

I was lucky to find that scroll saw close to home, it was a difficult machine to get figured out, but it cut thick lumber pretty good, even better after i got some more aggressive blade stock after that video.
I have some large fret work to make for a couple other houses with it.

 

[Billedis]

That is awesome work and I really appreciate your sharing all your old tools.  Looking forward to the fretwork.  Bill

 

[reyadlde]

The idea of ​​the magnificence and more will I apply after permission

 

[teocaf]

The idea of ​​the magnificence and more will I apply after permission

The what to the what ?!?  I don't have my enigma decoder ring on me at the moment, but welcome to the fog anyway, you mysterious voodoo dude!

Darcy, great work on the corbels.  Historic work deserves historic tools--that's some awesome cutting capacity.
I'm curious about the use of so many corbels all in a row in the first picture--what was the architectural necessity there?  Did the homeowner mention anything regarding that feature?

 

[WarnerConstCo.]

The idea of ​​the magnificence and more will I apply after permission

The what to the what ?!?  I don't have my enigma decoder ring on me at the moment, but welcome to the fog anyway, you mysterious voodoo dude!

Darcy, great work on the corbels.  Historic work deserves historic tools--that's some awesome cutting capacity.
I'm curious about the use of so many corbels all in a row in the first picture--what was the architectural necessity there?  Did the homeowner mention anything regarding that feature?

I think it is just because of the scale of the house.  It sits up on a hill and it is a long ways up to the peak on the second story.

I prefer the doubles.  The dentil mould is actually real 2x4's on the main part of the house.