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Background:
30 years experience carving stone.
- Completed full, formal apprenticeship under Jack Kendall, Master, at Oolitic, Indiana, 1976. Classic architectural cutting and carving and statuary carving, including tool use, layout and procedure, match template and architectural pattern making, bridge trammeling, pointing and caliper pointing, and stone design for environmental conditions.
- Carving from models at full scale, fractional scale models, shaded section drawings, sketches, prints, shop drawings or matching existing work.
- Licensed Masonry Contractor, Allen County, Indiana, for stone setting. Observing the guidelines of the Indiana Limestone Institute for stone handling and setting procedure.
- Journeyman Stone Cutters Assn. of Indiana, cutting and carving certification, Union member.
- Personally honored by Mr. Jack Kendall to continue the use of his "Bench Mark".
Specialties:
Indiana Limestone, other types by request.
Full range of carving services.
Personal Statement:
The CARVERS profession requires sufficient mastery of the tools and material with which they work to enable them to reliably impose, within stone, whatever shape meets the demands of the client. This includes the ability and willingness to work with Architects, Sculptors, Contractors, and others toward the successful use of Carved Stone within the Client's setting.
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Mother and child.
City of Salem, Indiana.
(over life-size.)
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Christ head.
Crosier House of studies.
(2 times life-size.)
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St. Elizabeth Seton.
Catholic Cemetary Association.
Fort Wayne, Inidana.
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Lunette panel.
Window head, typical.
Private residence.
Birmingham, Alabama
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Coat of Arms of the Cadet Corps.
Thayer Gate, United States Military Academy.
West Point, New York.
6' x 7' 2"
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