Marble Fireplace

[Shaun Tennant]

Walter, wow. thanks for posting the last image. stunning. I just stared at it for a while, absolutely magnificant, great find.

[alan wood]

Beautiful craftsmanship. What skill.
alan

[not registered yet]

%(#BF8000)[Congratulations on a superb effort ]

[BillyGrey]

[Ross Macintosh]

Walter -- I haven't forgotten that I said I'd be commissioning some of your work when (power of positive thinking) I win the lottery. I'll keep you busy!

Thanks for sharing images of your project with us.

Regards, Ross

[John Sayers]

lovely craftmanship, well done.

[Walter S. Arnold]

Here's another one. I'm still mostly using SU 4.0.

[Walter S. Arnold]

And heres the finished product. (well, the fireplace is finished, the room isn't). It was installed last week.

It's carved in white Carrara marble.

[Gaieus]

It was high time, Walter, to re-register. Again, welcome back and thanks for sharing this - the "final product" is just beautiful and it's good to see that you can use SU so efficiently in your workflow.

[Walter S. Arnold]

This one is closely related to the previous, just mild adjustments to the SU design. Different type of marble, Marquinia, a black Spanish marble with white veining.

I prefer not to do renderings; I find pencil communicates much better, renderings are just distracting for my clients. The pencil lets them use their imagination, renderings are more "frozen" and limiting. Also, with a piece of tracing paper over the SU printout, it just takes a few minutes; you can waste endless hours develpoing and tweeking renderings.

[art4med]

So, Walter,

You do the dimensional mark-up for your (sculpture or fireplace mantel) in SU--- and then send to the computer to carve? :") HA

Your detail is immense!

All the Best from a frustrated carver,
C>

[Walter S. Arnold]

Just finished this one, it's ready to crate and ship.
Those top corner pieces were a fun bit of geometry.

[Gaieus]

Hi Walter, "long time no see"!

Glad you posted again; these are so beautiful! Congratulation for the nice work and thanks for sharing it!

[Walter S. Arnold]

I was able to visit the site last month and take this photo of the installed fireplace.

[chrisjk]

What inspiring work - thank you for showing it to us. It's also fascinating to see how you use SU - I love the tidbit about tracing over the SU output!

[d12dozr]

Very cool to see the stages from design to finished product. Thanks for posting!

[Walter S. Arnold]

[Walter S. Arnold]

Here's another. I finished this one 18 months ago, but just had the opportunity to visit the home and take photos.

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[Walter S. Arnold]

Another one from a few years back; I started modeling it in SU v.2, then mid job upgraded to SU v.3.
It's a double-wide Tudor, rather unusual. Both fireboxes are wood burning masonry. I finally had the chance to visit the home a couple weeks ago, so I could take these installed photos.

[dermotcoll]

Truly magificent work - a true mastercraftsman - you do not get many of your skill level to the pound these days!!
Very beautiful work sir.