Mary Ostler » Glass http://www.maryostler.com Elizabethan Wood Butcher & Builder of Things Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:13:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Kamloops Court House ~ Woodworking Images http://www.maryostler.com/2010/02/kamloops-court-house-woodworking-images/ http://www.maryostler.com/2010/02/kamloops-court-house-woodworking-images/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:14:49 +0000 DirtyMary http://www.maryostler.com/?p=1772 Tir Righ Investiture 2010 happened up in Kamloops (Shire of Ramsgaard) this year. There will be a post on the event in the next few days, but wanted to dump the plethora of pictures I took of the Court house now.

This site was a sight to see. The detail to woodworking through out the building was a fantastic surprise. Western Canada does not have a lot of spectacular building to play in. The Majority of our province is under 100 years old. The days of splendorific building were for the most part over by the time the logging and mining camps grew into cities. Small little pockets of awesome here in BC make me want to play in countries that have centuries (milleniums) worth of history.

I am stifling my enthusiasm and letting the images speak for themselves.

20+ images after the jump.

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Tribute window I built in honor of a local SCA group. Using Copper Foil construction methods I attempted to make a semi-replica of a 10th century window that hangs in the Augsburg Cathedral.

As I do not have access to a glass kiln, I used a Dremel with a diamond bit to etch out the designs that would normally be painted onto the surface. Once etched, I painted on black enamel paint and let dry. Carefully using a steel wool pad, I removed the black paint from every area except the etched sections. Not nearly as great looking as a true painted window, It does the job.

The phrase “stone of chocolate” replacing the original Latin phrase was a inside joke (Our patron promised to supply a stone of chocolate to the shire every year…hardly ever happened…just a reminder).

The window currently resides in my room, but has been known to turn up inside my “Tudor House on a Flatdeck” soon to be featured on this site.

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