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Home LOCAL NEWS News Stone Carvers Continue Intricate Work KSNT Weather On Statehouse Beth Vaughn Sports Watch the Video The intricate Corinthian architecture of the 27 News Links Kansas Statehouse is so historically specific that About 27 News the current restoration project requires workers to take a leap back in time and hand-sculpt many of Community Calendar the more than twenty-six thousand stones.
Programming With thirty leaves done, Quarra hand-carver Eric Kudrna can look forward to cutting several hundred more. “The finishes are very Kansas Lottery specific to a time and we have to try to produce the existing finishes. All together, a KSNT WEATHER Games piece like that may take three to four days”, he explains.
27 News Coffee Club It’s a timely process that Jim Durham says starts in Strong City, where stones are shipped to Quarra Stone Company in Madison, Wisconsin. He says, “It comes in big 27 News Contests blocks like a loaf of bread you might say, and they can weigh up to 10 tons.” Double Your Dollar Once there, the stone is cut into pieces and either shaped by machine, or by hand. Welcome Home “They're much smaller once they're through that process, and they get put back on a truck and get sent back to the jobsite here.” Search Back in Topeka, Mark One Restoration workers place the pieces, and blend the stones into the existing ones, some well over 100 years old. Restoration worker Scott Evett says, “It needs to be done in such a way and with such craftsmanship that you cannot High: 41 Low: 32 see the repair 20 feet from the building. If I can come and find a repair from twenty feet away, then my guy's gotta buy me lunch.” Conditions Today BLUSTERY & COLD! A The restoration work should be invisible, that's why hand carving is necessary. Quarra strong north wind will continue carvers learn techniques from German master carvers. “There's no substitute in the end to funnel in some very chilly for using the old hammer and chisel, and the exact tooling that they used originally on conditions as we head into the weekend. the job, tooling the pieces to get an exact match. If you think about the guys who actually did this work, you can see the quantity of the pieces and the quality that's done More Weather here, if you're able to replicate that, it's very meaningful.”
For at least three more years, crews will continue to tap away at the stone.
Construction manager Jim Rinner says the project is on schedule, noting that winter will be a good time to work on design plans. He adds that no matter what the weather, interior work will continue throughout the winter inside the south wing. Story Created: Nov 14, 2008 at 8:24 PM CST Story Updated: Nov 14, 2008 at 8:24 PM CST
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