The next step in our restoration process is a pretty simple one. Take the massive hole that allows us to see into the rafters of the building and patch it up. During this, Dan and Frank use incredible sophisticated tools like long pieces of wood to maintain a curve and angles that are consistent with the rest of the ceiling. They make sure that it is nice and flat so that the more intricate molding work can take place on top of it later on.
Now that the patch work is done they can get down to what really makes their work worth it: the molding. They start by building into the ceiling a sort of track that will be a guide for the die that will form the molding. This die works sort of like the little kits that make Play-Dough so much fun. 
They build up a base on the ceiling itself, then drag the die along the track over the base of wet plaster, and pooof!! Out on the other side comes a nice, perfectly shaped piece of decorative molding. I'm sure it sounds ridiculously easy, but its not. It's a nice slow process that takes a long time to get right and especially so to make it look good.
Check out how they have built up the base of the molding slowly 
carefully have worked it into its final form. Once out of the dies it just needs a little bit of touch up work with a hand brush or spackling tool.And with that, we have molding. A few final touches, to smooth out the areas where the die had to be extracted, or the new molding was connected to the old and we are well on our way to a fixed ceiling!!
