Restoration: Gilt Wood Frame Plaster Disaster - 18th Century Mirror Frame Fell off the Wall
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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This came to me in a with loose parts in a bag. I'll show you how an antique from the 1700's gets to a point that it will sell. This is for a dealer and they will do the final stages of the work. This is the structural and basic repair of a gilded plaster over wood frame.
Another project that would make a person with lesser talent run for the hills! Those repairs and recreations turned out very well indeed. Thank you for showing your tips and tricks here Mr. Zeke. 😁
Happy to hear from you. This was my first foray into the world of plaster/gesso/gilt frames. I think in your clock work you may someday run across similar media. R.W. Emerson said, "Fear springs from ignorance." He also said, "Fear is a great instructor." Well, I'm fairly ignorant of some processes, but I'm willing to try.
Thank you for your talent
Thank you for watching.
Lovely seaside demo of you careful repair ..I looked at this as my my has a mirror of her mother's that has plaster work.. and I was really curious what you would do .
Considered beautiful repair
Thank you for sharing
Thank you. I have since found a better product for plaster restoration called Aqua-Resin.
Thank you for this video!!! it helped me out tremendously
Thank you for watching.
Mine just drop and crack the corner except the wood frame
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I have a 100 year old mirror with several cracks in the frame. They don’t go all the way through. Nothing ornate has fallen off the frame but I’m having a hard time finding videos to fix or fill in the cracks. Could you please advise me on what to do?
You could mask off so just the cracks are accessable and drizzle a few different compounds in the cracks. You don't say if it's plaster over wood or what. For that I might mix plaster of paris with some white glue and water to a pancake batter consistency or milkshake like and get some in there. A toothpick might help move it around and down. You have to get creative to keep it from running back out. There's more but that's what I do and I can't manage to show everything.
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Omgosh 😱 That frame is beyond amazing. I've never seen the like 😍
Question. I'm confused about something. When filling you said to use Q-Tip and water to clean up oozing. If I get water, or any water based cleaner on the plaster at all, the plaster starts melting away, and running like cheap mascara. I had to use 91% isopropyl alcohol and blot dry immediately. I had to sacrifice my M.A.C 263 Angled Eyebrow brush! 😂 Worked great getting the last of the stripper gooze out of million six tiny little reese's creases.
Even the 71% softened and or made the plaster feel sticky.
hmmm ..
I wonder if removing the stripper using the sawdust trick aka, once the stripper is ready, sprinkle sawdust on the stripper. Use a toothbrush to mix it up. The sawdust will absorb the stripper out of all those little curves and crevices of whatever you're stripping. Would it be safe to use on the plaster tho? Thoughts?
On a wing and a prayer, I'm currently trying to bring back a curbside treasure. A 3'×5' painted over guilded mirror. The frame is entirely finely detailed ribbons and bows. I've spent a month stripping the 30+ layers of paint, one bow and ribbon at a time. Oddly I didn't lose the original water gilding. Sadly, the oil guilding is toast.
Expecting to eventually hit the gesso layers, I was so sad to hit what I thought to be resin. Turns out, it's plaster over wood. Wheee!!
I used wood filler for gaps. It has tons of cracks I'm keeping and the corner bows are split and have large gaps from the frame's joints being pretty loose. I can't believe the mirror glass didn't fall out. It's SO heavy!Almost ¼" thick. No missing parts tho. Thank goodness.
Anyway, sorry for the Novel.
Dry plaster does not reconstitute and melt.
A real multi-media event AFA materials used. That had to be real close to not worth the time.
Totally.
What do you use for patination?
There is some fake gold leaf available. And some in a pen like marker that is gold (looking). I turned that part back to the dealer that owned the frame. Thanks for watching.