Leejc

haha no mark it was definitely not on purpose, cheers for the compliments though.

love this

here are a couple of practice pieces that i did a while ago. after a burn and a sand i think they've come up pretty well

well said Paul, totally agree. living trees should not be carved.

very good that, i have tried to do a double helix myself and it is not easy at all, but then i dont spend all day looking at them . well done.

hi, i'm looking to fill out my diary more. if you have any days where you need an extra set of experienced hands i would greatly appreciate the work. cheers, lee.

i use an old back handled 200 for carving and its brilliant, if the 201 is as good a saw (which it will be) then it too will be excellent for carving. I'm not an expert, in fact I'm still only just beginning with carving but the weight, balance and durability of the professional arb saws are definitely worth the increased price over the hobby/home saw range. i wouldn't want to be running one of those saws for hours at a time under practically no load, their just not made of the right stuff.

some great photos on here guys, sadly not me actually in the first one but i did take it.

very good, i like that a lot

ive been wondering the same thing, and i'm also northwest based, so i just pulled this off tommy craggs site - plus the apf is always a good, lots of toys plus the carvers

nice well done.

seems some of us are doing them better than others looks great si, totally get what you were saying now. yours actually looks like a barn owl and not a norman soldier like my effort!

yeah i know what you mean si, i'll prob try and do less detail next time and let the grain do the talking and your right about the beak it kinda looks like its wearing a spartan helmet as it is. cheers tucker

so here it is, my first ever owl. got lucky with some bits, like how the grain just happened to be perfect for an eye i knew laburnum would be a good choice :wink: anyway pretty happy with it for a first go, but would welcome some feed back...cheers, Lee.

haha so that's how Tommy got so good, just turn up and start carving! a great way to get the practice in. thanks for posting Bart.,