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On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:39 AM, Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]>  
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> On 12/15/2009 12:58 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> Go figure.   Christopher
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> I love it. Please cross-post this.
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> I am very mush interested in the recent discussions regarding burnt  
> wood. At a McKim Meade & White library interior we need to replicate  
> a used fireplace using new firebrick to build the firebox  
> (unfortunately the old firebrick was thrown away a few years ago  
> when this project first started). The developer intends to install a  
> gas log. Currently there is an engineer drawing up the design of the  
> box though we are not sure how historically accurate they will be in  
> their considerations. Though we have ideas on how to make the  
> firebox look authentic, as if it had been previously used for  
> decades, we have a few small details that worry us. We are not sure  
> if the original in this setting would have been for burning of wood  
> or coal. In either case we presume that the soot patterns, the black  
> charring, and the chemical composition of the patina would be vastly  
> different. We have considered building mock-up fireboxes and testing  
> them with both wood burning and coal, but any comments of expertise  
> in burn patterns on masonry would save us and our end-client a whole  
> lot of trouble. At present we are thinking about using shellac mixed  
> with lamp black and dispersed with hand-held propane torches. This  
> methodology also troubles us as the library walls are all carved  
> wood and we would be burning in an enclosed space where we will need  
> to accommodate appropriate ventilation. We have been negotiating  
> with the developer in hopes to convince them to let us also  
> fabricate a custom gas log, not one of those store bought ones, and  
> in this effort we have been burning oak and locust logs at our rural  
> studio and then recording their appearances at various stages of  
> consumption. More than likely despite that the original fireplace  
> was probably coal fired we think that the money on the project will  
> go with an interpretation of burnt wood.
>
> ][<
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