An Update for the Carousel for Elk City, Oklahoma December 2000
Part 1
Take a look at the latest photos! Happily everything went smoothly. I was able to take some very dramatic shots of the process by taping my digital camera to the end of a long pool cleaning pole. I was able to give all of us a bird's eye view of the whole ordeal. Enjoy! For more photos click here.
An Update for the Carousel for Elk City, Oklahoma December 10, 2000
What a beautiful carousel! That's what all our friends are saying when they see the gorgeous Ed Roth Horses that are going on Elk City's carousel. With quality and workmanship like that, it almost seems as if we are building carousels that rival the finest classic carousels of days-gone-by.
Ed Roth Carved Indian Pony
Take a closer look at this horse! Did you ever think they would be carving them like that again? With its flying mane, bear skin saddle blanket and quiver of arrows, this indian pony is ready for running. Giddy-Up!
Flame-Hardened, Precision-Cut Gear
Add features like the new center pole gear. No one makes'em like Brass Ring--that baby will last longer then we will! The great-great grandkids will thank you for it.
Did you ever wonder what a carousel looks like when it's naked?
Yes, it looks a little sparse now, but don't be fooled. This is the skeleton of a carousel, and this one happens to be very well-built.
More Outside Row Horses
These beauties will remain beauties for a long, long time to come. Thank goodness wooden carousels of this quality are still being made today. Every town needs to have some treasure that they can pass on to the future. Elk City sure has one and it's a beaut!
Wood In Motion
No doubt, these horses are going to please generations of Elk City residents...and why not, that's what well-made carousels have been doing for well over 100 years in America. God bless America!
An Update for the Carousel for Elk City, Oklahoma September 10, 2000
The Elk City carousel is ready to stand the center pole. Its a great time here at Brass Ring Entertainment. When the pole goes up, we know the end of the project is near. So far we have only had piles of wood and steel. Later this month you will be able to watch the carousel as each piece is put together.
After the pole goes up, the trim goes on. Then it will look like a carousel. Brass Ring Entertainment is waiting for one very important piece: the new center pole gear. This piece is being precision cut from a solid piece of steel. Old carousels and our competition still use cast iron gears. Brass Ring Entertainment uses only hardened steel gears. Cast iron lasts for around 80 years, hardened steel will lasts forever, making adjusting the gears a one time job.
The pole should go up the first week in October. Come back often. You will be able to watch step by step how a carousel is put together.
An Update for the Carousel for Elk City, Oklahoma July 1, 2000
On the way back from the removal of the Albany carousel (click here to see that project) the Brass Ring crew visited the site. It’s GREAT! It’s in a city park that has an amusement park train on one side and tennis courts on the other. Across the street is a block of museums. One of them is a museum dedicated to the famous Route 66. The carousel building on the edge of a large pond. The public will be able to watch the carousel and feed the ducks at the same time. It is one of the best buildings we have ever seen for a carousel.
Ed Roth is doing the final assembly of the horses. Next month Brass Ring will be putting up the carousel frame. Yes, we put up the whole carousel and have it operating before we take it apart and deliver it.
Elk City Oklahoma Carousel: First Report, January 31, 2000
Brass Ring Entertainment is happy to announce the building of a new Brass Ring Carousel for the City of Elk City Oklahoma, featuring all wood hand carved horses by carousel artist Ed Roth and trim from the world famous Illions Supreme, the most elaborate carousel ever produced.
During the next 10 months you will be able to watch the entire carousel as it is being constructed. Every part will be hand made in the shops of Brass Ring. Quality not quantity is what we strive for.
In the first months of the construction, there will be little to see. But as the months go by, you will be able to watch as the thousands of board feet of perfectly kiln dried Bass wood are glued and carved into a magnificent carousel.
Brass Ring carousels take the best features from both classic and modern carousel design. Having extensive experience with every major carousel manufacturer, we have learned what works and what doesn't. Brass Ring machines use the drives, bearings and technologies that have proven themselves in not just a few years of use, but over a century of carousel tradition.
Elk City's carousel will have the best drive being built today and the wood carvings from today's finest carver, Ed Roth. Ed had built carousels and individual animals for everyone from private collectors to Disney. In the carousel world he is considered the "finest carver of the day".
Come back to this site as the photos will let you watch the carousel as it is being built. Today, truck loads of plain wood, next December, a piece of working fine art.
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