Tom_Restorer
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why not the hair?
why not the hair?
extremely nice work, with those abilities have you made original pieces?
Tom, I understand that you are showing restored antique items.
My question was, given your extensive experience, have you made original pieces of your design.
too expensive to clean the curls?
I understand nothing, cost-effectiveness in the restoration of an attractive antigue?
off topic
Tom, looking at your work causes me to question mine. I have visited museums all over for years and really enjoy art, it's expression. You obviously have restored the beauty of many artifacts.
I am compelled to ask myself, what in my life have I made of beauty? I presently make things of wood and despite the huge effort and exotic woods and slick finishes, none would make it to a museum. Clearly I need to up my game.
Thanks for the impetus.
Tom, your English is fine.
'an original piece of your design' means: you select the medium (stone, wood, metal, etc.), and you define the method, and you create the design, and you execute it
Great work, by the way, Tom. Stunning. Share as many projects as you like! They're amazing!
now i git it!! (I guess...)
No, I am not a sculptor or artist at all. When it is needed to reconstruct missing body parts on a piece, I need help from other restorers.
Normal small reconstructions etc are no problem but when it comes to body parts, I get lost.
I never could make a replica of a figure with my own hands.
Even with the photographic memory I have, I can not see human faces when I close my eyes. So it is not the best start to sculpture things.
On the other hand I can construct completely any technical thing with every single detail and measurements just in my head before I start to build them.
To be an sculptor or Artist I guess there is an other brain needed as mine I have the greatest respect of people who can do such work!
You do beautiful work Tom, proper restoration is a true talent.Cleaning, preservation and bringing back the color of 17th century oven tiles with depictions of Reformers like Martin Luther etc.
Clearly it is nice to see the own work in museums and that other people can enjoy it but most important for me is to see all this things after cleaning them as first human being and this in almost same condition before they gone in the ground.
Can you imagine how it is if you clean as example a bronze with inlaid or engraved egyptian inscriptions and you be the first one who see them again and read and speak out what stands there? Or if you clean a real masterpiece and pick out all the fine details the artist put in thousands of years ago. That´s what drives me and why I love my job.
Please show me some of you wood works! I love wood too. nice material to work with.