size can change everything !
These capitals are 33cm and 40cm large and will ornate St Aigulin's church organ, actually under construction.
An how-to article was featured in 'woodcarving magazine' #141 explaining steb by step how to carve them.
The model, quite small (12cm) comes from a XIXth wood pannel in a church.
Scaled to this size, Their simple shapes take an other dimension, between classicism and stylized, tradition and modernity.
Carving the volutes .
Ready to leave the shop.
columns were realized by the organ maker following Roubo's method (described in 'l'art du menuisier')
At the workshop, Alain and Eric, organ makers, are calculating the position of the pipes.
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