06-20-2023, 06:58 PM
(06-19-2023, 08:39 PM)tompm Wrote: Very impressive and thanks for the step by step. For some reason moss never dawned on me. Now I might need to go back and look at few things.
You said the abutment is Styrofoam? If so did you carve all the blocks? In which case I am even more impressed.
Tom,
Glad you enjoy the work. Both the abutments and piers are Styrofoam. The piers are carved from a single block of it (the 3" green stuff), whereas the abutments are three pieces of 1 1/2" thick pink. There are some pictures and sorta "step by steps" in Let the hardscape begin! (morristhemoosetm.wixsite.com), about 1/3 of the way into this (long) blog entry. The pink pieces I cut on my table saw, the green pieces were cut into blocks on the table saw and then cut carefully with a very think kerf Japanese dovetail saw. I cut the sides first, then the fronts and backs, pretty much by eye. When they were the right shape I spackled them and then etched the joints between block with a sharp nail (after laying out the blocks with a pencil). Then paint, paint, paint....
These are my second set of bridge piers, the first were fine until I applied spray paint. The propellant in that stuff eats Styrofoam... If at first you don't succeed.....
Check out my "Rainbows in the Gorge" website: http://morristhemoosetm.wixsite.com/rainbows