I love these two works sent to me recently by Rosie from the group: Can members please send more of their work to me at dh at sarquol.com? Its good to see what we are all doing during this forced separation.
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New Work from Glen Martin
I’ve attached a few photos for the website. The cat and the pig follow designs by Jeremy Williams; the perching birds, nuthatches and letter-opener are Peter Benson designs. The remainder are my own.
David’s Day Out
I was collecting my daughter from University in Bangor and ‘happened’ to run into a wood festival in the area. (http://www.woodfestwales.co.uk) It is set up as quite a family day out, with a variety of wood related events and a fun fair. As you can see from the photographs, one of the major attractions from …
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Carving photo shoot
After a photo shoot at the BBQ this year I am able to present some of the carvings that members have created over the years.
Publicity Photos
If you have good quality photographs of your carvings that you don’t mind us “publishing” when we need photos then I would appreciate it if you could get copies of them to myself or John Pryke. Given the recent warning they need to be either original carvings, or we need to have appropriate “accreditation” (i.e. …
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“Kent Life”
Some of the Region members posing with our new “Kent Life” panel, which will be used in any future displays and exhibitions, such as the Kent County Show, attended by the Group.
THE “VASA” AND ITS CARVINGS – Part 1
The Vasa is a Swedish warship, that capsized on its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. She was a royal ship which was the biggest of Sweden’s warships at the time. It’s hull was built of 1,000 oaks and had 64 large guns; masts that were more than 50 metres high, and many 100’s of …
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An odd-shaped carving support
(the title refers to the carving to be supported not the support itself!)
Recycling those offcuts
An interesting tip was given to us by Peter about the possible productive use of those offcuts that we are all reluctant to get rid of. The idea was prompted by him sorting out some scrap and studying their shapes and what might be produced from them.. Some of the resulting carv-ings are show in …
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The Unpatented Woodchip Shield
A certain retired naval gentleman suggested that instead of me keeping on asking for contributions to the Newsletter, I should include this object, which can be seen in the picture. In other words it is a carver’s apron!
