POETV watches people make stuff: water gilding a wooden mascaron

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dr_rock

- 2012-07-20

I stand behind this.

jreid

- 2012-07-20

Gilding is easier than you may think. The real talent here is in the carving.

baleen

- 2012-07-20

No way! Gilding and carving is too easy. The real challenge is in video lighting and cinematography.

jangbones - 2012-07-20

Hey! Making television may not be hard, but making good television is.

That's what I keep telling myself.

Jet Bin Fever - 2012-07-20

now do a "gelding" how-to video.

memedumpster

- 2012-07-20

That's every single video on poeTV (every single video in the world if you're American), but this is still neat.

chairsforcheap

- 2012-07-20

OH shit i didn't even start this video but i'm so behind the proprietary poetv video title movement

CornOnTheCabre

- 2012-07-20

The idea of a new "series" reminds me: is there any chance of/movement towards starting a POEtv synchtube? it seems like a natural progression...

Binro the Heretic

- 2012-07-20

The first time I saw this sort of gilding was on a PBS show about the restoration of an art museum in Europe that had been damaged by bombs in WWII.

I watched them repair dozens of little wooden cherubs, carefully apply the gold leaf and reinstall the little guys at the tops of marble columns.

I was impressed at the skill, but also more than a little disappointed as I had always assumed decorations like that were made of solid gold.

In my defense, I was only ten.

SteamPoweredKleenex

- 2012-07-21

Plaster restoration is also amazing to watch. A lot of crown molding isn't wood, but plaster. It's thrown into the corner where the wall meets the ceiling, then some guy with a more apparent skill in his arm than a major-league pitcher takes a trowel that shapes the plaster into a "carved wood" shape at the same speed a normal mortal would use to draw a line with a Sharpie.

I still don't get how those guys could make whole walls and ceilings flat using only a wet plank of wood with a handle on it, but they can.

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