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- Here are some of the parts of the rotation mechanism, (illustrated in the original engineering drawings) as we salvaged them from the 5th floor ceiling.
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- Wide interior oak panels for the reconstructed casement windows, made by Karl Phillips of Nantucket.
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- Dave recovers the images from the camera after it survived a good pounding in the winter of 2014-15.
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- An icy start up the ladder.
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- Stripped and rebuilt, the last surviving interior stairway door (center) served as a template to make two reproductions.
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- The 5th floor oak ceiling comes together at Karl’s Nantucket shop.
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- The 10 exact copies of the Graves Light stairway rail brackets, cast at Mystic Valley Foundry.
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- Alison made this mold to cast new pieces of glass to replace the missing ones in the Graves Light skylights.
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- New re-casting of a brass fitting for the reconstructed mahogany handrails.
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- The ceiling is 13 feet in diameter, made of white oak.
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- Arthur crafts exact copies of lighthouse fixtures out of bronze. He’s at Mystic Valley Foundry in Somerville, Mass.
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- John Nelson at work on the new brass fittings we custom-cast to restore the handrail system.
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- These brass fittings were cast in Portland, Maine, in the winter of 2014-15.
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- One of the 13 skylights, containing the round tiles of glass. The larger circular area on the right is a skylight with the bronze-and-glass insert removed.
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- 1903 architectural drawing of the oak interior stairway door at Graves Light.
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- A lot of the most important work is unseen: Stopping rust inside the walls at Graves Light.
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- Polishing a century of grime from one of the brackets of the original First Order Fresnel lens rotation mechanism.
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- At his Nantucket shop, Karl Phillips works on the new oak ceiling of the 5th floor of Graves Light – a perfect copy of the ruined original.
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- Karl Phillips installs a faithful replacement of the original oak window sills.
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- Arthur continues his work on making copies of the bronze Grave Light fixtures.
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- The US Coast Guard provided us with this copy of the original drawings of the lamp rotation mechanism.
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- First look at the new Bunk Room at Graves Light, June 2015.
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- Alison works on a skylight. She’s in the Lantern Room, looking down at the floor. The photographer is in the Watch Room, looking up at the ceiling.
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- Super Ladder 2015 is ferried out to Graves.
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- The rust from the iron joists shattered the glazed bricks, so we had to excavate them out to treat the metal.
