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Shirdi statue installed
01-03-201409-02-2026 sculpture, temple
The marblestatue of Shirdi Sai Baba was placed on Thursday, on Mahashivaratri (the great night of Shiva), inside the temple. Read here more about Shirdi Sai Baba.
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Marble statue of Shirdi Sai Baba completed
10-01-201409-02-2026 Latest projects, sculpture
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After a long time of sanding, polishing, and buffing up the statue of Shirdi Sai Baba is finished. It was carved from white Carrara-marble, 1 metre high and 50 cms wide. I just have to cut the rest of the marble block from under it, that is for next week.
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Restoration | St Stephen's Church
Seven consoles for the South Portal
The consoles for the south portal of the Stevens Church Nijmegen are now ready. There are seven of them, and they are all different. The trefoils and the crockets are almost ready as well. Now we just have to carve a number of capitals, then we can go installing soon, so the whole stuff will be ready in May. To the first…
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sculpture | vM
Presawing
When carving a sculpture out of a block of stone it will be obvious that a lot of stone, will have to be removed. Just removing that stone is not too complicated, and with the right tools that can go very quickly . The point is just to know where it needs to be removed, and that is usually…
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Eusebius | Restoration
A Long-legged Squirrel (flying buttress figurine)
The last flying buttress figurine from flying buttress no. 5 of the Eusebius Church in Arnhem was the Squirrel. In these past few weeks I have presawn all the remaining blocks of stone for flying buttresses nos. 5 and 4 machine, so now I can start carving all the remaining figurines. This one was not very remarkable in itself, but it did have a nice coarsely carved tail, a piece of tree trunk where he…
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Cutting granite with an angle grinder
Every once in a while I will carve a sculpture for another sculptor. This Saturday I started sawing at a large block of granite for a tombstone. Because it's not my own design I will not say too much about it, but I can write something about the process. I started with…
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Eusebius | Restoration
A Desperate Monk, Reading (flying buttress figurine)
Weathered The next flying buttress statue in the series for the Eusebius Church was a man in a monk's habit, reading a book and desperately grasping his forehead. The old tuffstone sculpture was pretty heavily weathered at the surface, but the stone underneath was still fairly sound. However, there is no guarantee that this will happen…
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