wisewood
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It's an invitational event to raise as much as possible for cf foundation. As long as you donate a medium to large piece and an hour speed carve you can make as much inventory as possible to offset flight costs. They look after you well in Georgia. They also create teams of carvers to carve sponsor pieces for businesses who make big donations. So showing up with nothing, assisting with a sponsor carve, carving a donation plus the speed carve doesn't leave a lot of free time to create stock. I covered my flight costs so it was well worth it [emoji106]
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It didn't get a great price at the auction but happy to have contributed to an amazing $206,000 raised for the cystic fibrosis foundation.
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And finished
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In America at the moment carving for an event to raise money for a cure for cystic fibrosis. Started carving this guy today in between other projects.
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Haha yeah I see that now[emoji106]thanks
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In short yes, it's good practice to nip a bit off the back of the cutters. But then so is general saw maintenance, make sure oil is getting to the chain sufficiently, dressing the bar, checking depth gauges and keeping the cutters sharp etc all ensure things are working properly [emoji106] -
Watch "Chainsaw carving tutorial - Christmas tree" on YouTube
wisewood replied to wisewood's topic in Chainsaw Carving Forum
I know it's a bit early, but I've normally already made a start on Christmas stock by now. This was filmed last year as a bit of a laugh, took 15 minutes to carve the tree and about 3 hrs to set everything up [emoji23] -
Nice, really like the pose of the rabbit /hare, looks like it's about to spring off there[emoji106]
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A lot of Americans carve it, maybe it lasts better over there. Usually very wet in and smelly. Won't last long without chemical preservative treatment. Quite woolly, terrible to sand unless really dry.
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Just measured mine, top of burner to lowest point of beam is 330mm. The chimney cover plate is 420mm from top of burner.
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Good stuff harvey, interesting setup. How do you find carving with a top handle?
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Lovely grain and colour, out of interest what did they go for?
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Whoops! Expensive firewood
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You're not alone Steve, I know a few guys that firewooded some stunning timber in the past because that's what was done.
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Some of the sapwood had gone a bit spongey but most of that was removed with sand blasting. I treated the rest for rot and woodworm and the odd soft spot treated with wood hardener.
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Had this burry oak offcut in my workshop for around 4 years. Originally milled with an alaskan then squared up with the mini mill. Got a local joinery shop to put through their thicknesser and then got the waney edge sand blasted. Came out lovely [emoji108]
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New Panther chain equivalent to Stihl PM3
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Valid point, but on the whole we carvers are a friendly bunch and are not in the business of piss taking unless we know you well enough to take it. I think some posts on tools and techniques would go down well. I have several YouTube vids on different tools that available from Rob at Chainsawbars
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Haha, I do dabble with chainsaw milling in between carving [emoji106]
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Yes Steve, I agree and I will post on here regularly from now on and try to make my contributions worthwhile rather than showing a photo or two. I suppose I had reservations about bombarding this forum and turning it into my portfolio [emoji1]
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Funny how I managed to avoid brexit on here until this thread. I appreciate everyone's input, at the very least it has encouraged some of us to interact [emoji1] I will try and post regularly and keep them pertinent and informative [emoji108]
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Possibly although I tend to skim over political debate so don't get to read extremists rants. I know I was guilty of dropping out a few years back when the site got reformatted. I only look at a few forums, is it the same on any of the others? From my perspective the chainsaw carving forum seems to be the most affected.
