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Message: [QUOTE="Sean Regan, post: 233467, member: 5841"] The kew pagoda built in the 18th century was based on the one in Nanjing China, destroyed many decades ago and then rebuilt more recently. I did quite a bit of research before making mine. Japanese pagodas tend to have either three, five, seven or nine roofs. Mine's based on one like this photo in Japan. There are many like it. [ATTACH type="full" alt="main.jpg"]91892[/ATTACH] It's as close as I could get it in concrete. I even tried to replicate the pin joints that support the corners of the roof. It has different types of hardwood beading for the balustrades, they are set into the concrete. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1030305.JPG"]91894[/ATTACH] The sorin (that thing on the top) was hard to make. It has a central steel rod, with a cap off a shaving gel cannister at the bottom. Seven drilled through brass cupboard door knobs, some 4pt milk carton caps, wooden curtain rings, wooden beads and a garden plastic solar lighting stake which I shaped and in which I drilled holes. It's all as correct as I could get it. Otherwise it'd look naff. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1030309.JPG"]91896[/ATTACH] It's 35 years old now and has worn pretty well, it suffers a bit from weathering, although it gets a re-paint every few years. The sorin is all gold now. Occasiobally, I accidently knock off one or two of the 36 finials on the corners of the roofs if I brush past them when weeding, but they are just bits of dowel and I keep a few spares for when needed. [ATTACH type="full" alt="P1050271.JPG"]91897[/ATTACH] Pagodas fascinate people. This is one I found in a book nearly forty years ago. A seven storey one built by an old guy in a cuboard he made for it, in his tiny garden in Japan. Using miniature tools he made himself. He used the correct wood, Hinoki. a Japanese cypress, from which all antique Japanese pagodas are built, that doesn't rot and retains it's original shape. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Big pagoda.JPEG"]91895[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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