Lead

Embracing my apparent need for constant changes in activity I moved on to an area of the ongoing sign project that required addressing. The weighty sign will sit on a copper clad roof with spars that run down between flat sheets. The two pillow blocks here will straddle two of those spars and transfer the weight of the sign to the beams of the roof support structure below. The actual work is done by a welded structure of stainless steel with lead decoration on the front, which is all that will be visible from street level.
I made an impression of the decorative tile in the rear in sand, then adjusted the impression with the aid of a block of wood and some fiddly spoon work to remove the parts of the structure that I needed to be absent. Then poured in the molten lead.