Altar Project: Mockup

 

Although as of this writing, it is still too cold for gluing the entire assembly together, it won't be long before it remains warm enough. After sleeping on the corner legs with the splintered wood chunks, I decided to attempt to repair them but liberally applying glue to the splintered areas mixed with sawdust to create a like colored patch. After it dried and I sanded it, the repair virtually disappeared and is no longer noticeable. Crisis adverted. 

With that decided, I trimmed the columns to the correct with and using clamps and some screws, temporarily mocked everything together with the exception of lots of trim, molding and bead work that still remains along with the top that will go... well on top. But for the next couple days anyway, weather will put a halt to my work until I can get the four sides of the base adhere together so that it can be sanded before I apply the columns permanently and then final sand those before applying the trim work permanently. Essentially, I am working my way from the inside out, sanding as I go to reduce nooks and crannies that will be hard to sand later on

A oblique look to show off the corner columns that I mitered together and blogged about in a previous post.

Finally a view of the back side which doesn't have the double ogee arch detail. All in all, I am happy with progress and feel like things are nicely taking shape even if there is a lot of finicky type detail work still to come. Having the bulk, as far as weight goes, built seems like quite an accomplishment.