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| Posted: Thu Dec 29th, 2011 01:55 pm |
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Outstanding Lucas. What did the foam look like in the original form. The colors are right on.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29th, 2011 08:43 pm |
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danpickard
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Hi Lucas,
Thats certainly a worth while effort. The big benefit of carving them yourself is the corner finish, which is often the downfall of many pre cast versions, with a join to tryand conceal. Your corners have come up great. The method of pushing the odd brick in or off skew adds some great texture to the wall as well.
I'm assuming it was a piece of the extruded foam, similar to the pink or blue foam as often used in the US. I have difficulties getting the pink/blue gear down here, so use a similar white/cream coloured product.
Thanks for sharing, and please keep up the updates of the brick experiments.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 29th, 2011 09:31 pm |
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Lucas Gargoloff
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Many thanks for the comments guys!!
danpickard escribió:
Hi Lucas,
Thats certainly a worth while effort. The big benefit of carving them yourself is the corner finish, which is often the downfall of many pre cast versions, with a join to tryand conceal. Your corners have come up great. The method of pushing the odd brick in or off skew adds some great texture to the wall as well. Yes, corners = problems... But hand carve solves it. Only one thing I don´t like, is the texture of the corner, is more porous than the front side, may I had to sand the front for get a similar texture.
I'm assuming it was a piece of the extruded foam, similar to the pink or blue foam as often used in the US. I have difficulties getting the pink/blue gear down here, so use a similar white/cream coloured product.
This experiment was made in a white foam piece. The foam here is the same you use, white foam, I can´t find pink or blue here. I have a little piece of pink, will do a test in it for look if there are some differences.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30th, 2011 04:43 am |
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Lucas.
That looks fantastic. Please let us know how the test on the other foam works out.
I don't imagine this was a quick method.
I note that you have kept the brick courses nice and straight.
The detailing is very good.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30th, 2011 04:57 am |
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Lucas Gargoloff
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Thanks Don! yeap, this was a really quick test, I started last sunday and took me around 20 hours to complete as you can see now. It was helped with a ruler and drew with a fine pencil, then mark the lines with a needle and push in with a piece of baswood. Now, I want to test the pink foam for look how it works... I have only a 3"x6" piece of it. Will see... 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30th, 2011 06:12 am |
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That.
Is really good.
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| Posted: Fri Dec 30th, 2011 03:34 pm |
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Herb Kephart
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Lucas-
When you try the denser foam, please let us know the results.
Also, the 'unevenness" of the face is a great feature, but remember that once built, the bricks cannot be individually pushed in, so the only way that they can be other than a flat surface is sloppy work on the part of the guy that did the laying, or abrasion from passing vehicles, carts etc.
So it is an eyecatching feature, just go a little lighter on the distance that you push an individual brick down.
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31st, 2011 03:37 am |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31st, 2011 03:57 am |
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chasv
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Lukas i like it the way it is would keep you wondering "how did he do that"
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