examples you found really are beautiful and quite ornate. My design will be
more American in style, but basically the same idea.
By the way, if any of you design a sundial cupola, be careful to watch out
for shading from roof eave overhang. The "Pagoda" designs have big
overhangs that might shade the southern dials at midday in the summer.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frans W. Maes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Sundial List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: Sundial Cupolas
Hi John & all,
Only after I saw the cupolas in your links, I understood that these were
not
dome-shaped, but square. I found some examples in the Netherlands, which I
put temporarily on my website, at: www.fransmaes.nl/sundials/cupola.htm .
You surely will show us the results of your enterprise?
Best regards,
Frans
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sundial List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 6:55 PM
Subject: Sundial Cupolas
Hello All:
I'm considering building or buying a four-sided painted wood cupola with a
copper roof for the roof of a home. I'd like to put a sundial on each face
of the cupola and then a neat weathervane on top. I've had great fun
searching for cupolas and weathervanes online. There are and endless
variety of styles and available. Most of the companies that sell cupolas
also sell weathervanes.
Here's a photo of one of the windcup weathervanes I like:
http://weathervanesofmaine.com/weathervane-wc9821.html
And I'm thinking of a cupola that would look something like this (Glassed
Mahogany Pagoda
with 701 Finial Image 2), but with sundial faces instead of windows:
http://www.weathervanecupola.com/cat/cupolas.html
Have any of you ever seen a cupola or "clock tower" with sundials instead
of
clocks?
John
p.s. Do you think the copper weathervane will act like a lightning rod?
Maybe it should be grounded?
p.p.s A lot of the weathervane websites sell marvelous copper finials that
a
dialist could use for perpendicular gnomons.
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