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Post by iansadler on May 12, 2009 10:26:57 GMT
Hi all, while talking to Nick on Sunday , a great day out by the way. Part of the conversation was how to build a stone wall, I thought it could be done using wine bottle corks . So A bit of spare time while waiting for parts of my Mad Max tractor to set , I started cutting corks along the length on all 4 sides to give me an oblong - this was the basis to making indevidual odd shaped stones. It took an hour to complete the bottom section .Today after the botton section had set I made the top standing stones from the left over round sections cutting each as a seperate shape . I found that the texture and density of the cork has an effect on the final shape and texture of the wall. It took 20 corks to build . I will spray it grey primer when the wind dies down and weather it with acrylics in various shades . I am lucky as I have stone wall at the front of my graden . See att scan of the completed wall section . cheers ian
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Post by Lonewolf on May 12, 2009 18:33:58 GMT
Not bad Ian but it looks very much like a Welsh one. They use slate in Wales and you get that slight uniform oblong look.
Our ones are far more irregular. And more prone to falling down too LOL ;D
You build them as a sort of heap with rules. Two thicknesses of stone with the occasional bigger stone running through both sides to hold it together and fill the space in between with small stuff. You can run stones along the top but they don't always bother.
How do I know?? I've done it for the National Park authority when I worked for the Ranger service. I don't seem to have any photos handy, but I can soon get you some if you want? As many as you like.
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Post by Lonewolf on May 12, 2009 18:37:48 GMT
Ooo I am of course assuming you mean a dry stone wall?
Hmm and 20 corks, an excellent excuse to drink wine LOL
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Post by iansadler on May 13, 2009 13:29:03 GMT
Hi all it is based on one I saw at Carlisle at the rear of a Little chef , But as luck would have my bateries were flat in my camera , so it is built on memory . First base coat went onto day . cheers ian o
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Post by voyager on May 15, 2009 19:51:13 GMT
Looks pretty darned good to me, wonder if you could do a 'low relief' version with cork tiles?
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Post by seamfiller on May 18, 2009 8:33:34 GMT
That really is a noce looking wall.
Years ago I needed to duplicate a Scottish/Highland dry stone wall. These are generally lower, rougher and more 'rustic' looking than most English walls and most often to not have the vertical capping stones. Also, the stones tend to be much more irregular - it's too much trouble to dress granite, so they use what's lying around.
For this I used cork floor tile, shoved through my old hand mincer (Spongg). Then it was sprinkled onto stiff card covered in PVA. It need to be packed in fairly tightly and you need to be careful to get rid of excess glue (otherwise it looks like mortar). It really did look like the more random Scottish walls.
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