dun dun dun.....the throne

[arbmark]

macrocarpa - its only taken 4 years!!!!

thanks to trollspiel for the help with the finishing.

sadly the picture quality is dire so you cant see the shimmering highly finished grain patterns.... (looked awesome in the sunshine today), but you can see my new boots in the background. every cloud and all that...

[Sam Thompson]

FANTASTIC

[arbmark]

cheers sam - i just need a pipe now

anyone want to know the process/tools, i'm no pro carver, but happy to share the somewhat limited knowledge......

[Paul Smith]

Yes please! Interesting piece. How did you make sure the walls had the same diameter?

[Rob D]

Cracking piece of work - was it hard to scope/saw all the material out from the middle or do you have a short cut?

[woodsculptor]

Simple and elegant, really nice work :-)

 

Kim

[arbmark]

woah thanks guys

the process:

chainsaw! boring and slicing bits out the centre

bash off the bark with a blunted chisel to keep the trunks natural form

anglegrinder with 'arbortec' disc to rough out the shape

anglegrinder with 30grit disc to smooth out the gouges out left by previous.

random orbital sander with 60grit to iron sufaces flat, then 120grit, then 240 grit.....

wet down with water to fluff up grain

repeat with sander on 240grit

(water again if you can be bothered, then 240grit again)

then oil

allow to absorb, then wax.....

seat shaped using a thin piece of hardboard, trimmed with a jigsaw and repeated scribing to follow curves.

 

wall diameters - by feel im afraid - if you go through the wall on a flute or something, just make a feature out of it

carving out the middle is quite simply a bugger unless you have a nice hollow chunk of beech or a long bar! if the bar goes through then you can cut out triangles easy

probably took about 25hrs at a guess