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To all of you proffessional millers out there (this is a theoretical question)... what do you charge per day? your rig, my wood, delivered to your site. Ash, 3m lengths. lets pretend there is likely to be 4 or so days work any thoughts?

i guessed as much, i need to get there soon, have a list of stuff i want. One day when i am not leaving work at 6pm or rushing to get home for an appointment

i guess the question has to be.. when is it 'living'? if its dead wood (and never touches living wood or breaks the bark-seal) then is the damage as bad as carving actual living wood? the carvings on that site are all on dead sections of a living tree so i dunno if it is harmful to the tree or not. They look great but is it damaging the tree? i dunno.

Where do you buy your tree-spray from?

Thanks mark my page is more about communicating with other carvers than trying to sell my stuff once i get better i might try to make some money out of it but for now ill keep me head down

Thats the constant battle, trying to come up with something that is great to look at, reasonably easy to make (if you have the skill) and is sufficiently novel taht people will buy them. As soon as you come up with somethign it will be copied but as a great carver once said, there are no copyrights for carvings

I always assumed that the pic was taken before the clear-up, pack-up and go

Anyone who has read my posts on different saws knows I am not purely a Stihl man of a Husky man or whatever BUT I have to go along with Tom a bit here.... the stihl carving bar i am using (second hand but had had a lot of hours use before i got it, probably 50-60 hours since i have had it) is still (or is that stihl) going strong. Whether they are worth the extra money compare to a zebra or canon bar i dont know, but i wouldn't write them off. Mick, enjoy your carving bar and welcome to land of 'carving addicts'. The first thing i learnt about carving bars is just how loose the chain needs to be to prevent over-heating. pretty much flopping around is about right. The second thing i learnt was heat-management! The tip can get very hot so i tend to swap between saws to give this bar a rest. I also tend to use thinner oils on the carving bar. I dont know if its just a gut-feeling but i fee a thinner oil will flow better onto the var (and faster) and help dissipate the heat. You go through more oil, but if its keeping the bar cool its worth it

college. get the theory then learn the practice

You can't say fairer than that! Rob is yer man for buying bars/chains. I have a pair of stihl bars/chains (2nd hand) that are still going strong but show some wear i have another saw with an 18 inch bar so I am quite happy with a short carving bar. I guess if i was going to buy new i might go for a 12inch bar but i quite like the extra reach

splendid.... love the finish

lovely balanced piece with nice humour also wonderign how you did the eyes? so regular, do you use a tool?

splendid work there mate! I'm a huge fan of the smooth-sanded effect. especially like the grain on the ears. how much did your new sander cost?

great old film and yes, we moan now but THEY were hard men! Thing that makes me sad is seeing such lovely old trees being cut down. especially as so many of the buildings that used this wood will also have been pulled down. There is somethign about the sequoia, amazing trees and it's kinda magical to walk among them

Went to your facebook page, nice stuff there

I saw one of these today, I was sanding a big Gruffalo's child carving and it passed in front of my mask and then landed... scared teh bejeeezus out of me!!

Phil is a star! not only knows his stuff to a fantastic level of detail but is also SOOOO enthusiastic! By the end of the day I was considering doing the felling course as well I had 1-to-1 training so could get it knocked off quickly and so could learn some more advanced cuttign techniques. I also learnt soem stuff that i didnt know... maintainance stuff that I would have been uncertain to do myself before it. I can't recommend him enough

I was kinda nervous about the assessment for some reason but i got 4/4 for all categories so went perfect in the end

The clients were my parents so slightly easier BUT in a way, harder! Main nerves were about trying to hold the plan in my head when i had to carve 1 day, miss a day and then carve again on the third day (i did the CS30 training/assessment on the middle day). Smell nice? hmm.. no, not especially. Its very hard wood (had to re-sharpen the chains a couple of times) and had a slight 'medicinal' small but not massively. Its been dead for a long time and was pretty dry so perhaps thats why? The cub was a last-minute addition. I wanted to complete the story and there needed to be a reason why shy was climbing teh tree. either 'prey' or cub. I decided on the cub but only wanted to suggest teh shape, not carve it in detail. given i could only just reach the cub with my arms extended i couldnt do much in teh way of detail anyway

Chainsaw carving in Eucalyptus. Roughly 2m long from tail to nose. took me about 13 hours or so over 2 days. Biggest piece i have done so far but then i have only been carving for about 4 months Owners were very pleased with it which is the main thing I was a little nervous at the start, such a big piece and having to work off the ground but i was pleased with the end result

not my original idea, seen it on the interwebs somewhere, just cant remember who so cant credit them. Possibly Mick? actually quite simple to cut, slightly contra-intuitive but fairly simple

I'm down at my parents place trying to do a large carving for them but today the weather was terrible so no chance to start on it. Not wanting to just waste the day I went into the woods, grabbed a 7 foot section of a fallen sycamore (spindley so only about 10 inch diamater) and carved this under the shelter of the trees Definitely carving in the storm Tom:thumbup1:

thats a strange one... what exactly are they lookign at at the lab? i work with soil-scientists all day hence the interest

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