• Jesus back into place again

    Latest projects, Restoration
    Installing Jesus statue

    With a new set of hands and on a new pedestal of the same French limestone the Sacred Heart statue is looking wonderful again.

    The statue was installed last Friday in a nice place, inside the school where it formerly stood in the basement: College Hageveld in Heemstede. The statue had to be placed in a fairly empty room, where once the altar of the school chapel used to be, when it was still a minor seminary.

    placement staue of Jesus Hageveld

    Getting it there was a tricky job, because we had to overcome a stairway of about 1 metres 60 high. To make it even harder there was also a bridge spanning the stairs, leaving very little height for lifting the statue. With a batch of pallets, we filled up the stairs, and with an engine hoist we could lift the statue on the pallets.

    The staue of Jesus again in a good spot on a new pedestal.

    And even upstairs we could make good use of this hoist, to lift the statue onto its new base. The hands were still not in place, that only came after the statue was anchored to the wall and to the pedestal with a solid stainless steel wire end in the back and in the base plate .

    As I already explained in wrote before, I had first carved two hands out of the same limestone, but by accident both middle fingers broke off. Actually a good thing, for this way I found out that this wasn't strong enough. Now the hands are made with special restoration mortar around a solid stainless steel frame. This way, the statue should last for another century.

  • Some odd jobs

    background, Latest projects

    Radio silence?

    Dismantling the bronze sculpture by Inka Klinckhard (various jobs)
    a sculpture by sculptress Inka Klinckhard disassembly

    It was very quiet on my blog for a while, but I've still been busy doing some odd jobs. After the placement of two Hercules statues in Barneveld I disassembled and reinstalled another bronze sculpture quite nearby, in Museum Nairac.

    various jobs: Placement Jan van Schaffelaar Museum Nairac
    A statuette by Klinckhard on a new pedestal, next to the statue of Jan van Schaffelaar

    This museum has an interesting collection of archaeological and area-related historical artifacts collection. Hence, the second statue that I had to install was in the right place there: it was a plaster cast of the original design for the statue of Jan van Schaffelaar, by Bart van Hove. The final sculpture was carved from limestone out of 1903 and stands opposite the museum, just before the church of Barneveld.

    Shelter

    I have also been busy setting up my shelter, with polycarbonate light panels and roof. My son Joram helped me out occasionally during the build. A lifting beam and electric hoist will soon be added underneath, and scaffold nettings along the sides for protection against strong winds.

    various jobs: shelter build with Joram
    Joram helped building it
    various jobs: Jos came watching the progress
    Jos from the care farm came to see the progress

    I found erecting the trusses a bit tense at first, because a year ago one of these frames landed on my arm. I ended up with a deep cut that kept me out of circulation for three weeks. But everything went smoothly this time. The shelter will soon offer a spacious work area with four meters hoisting height, which should be enough. I bought it from my old employer Ton Mooy, so I know the thing very well: I've worked under it for fourteen years.

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