Archive for September, 2011

Carving a Green Man

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Well Here is a short post on carving a simple Green man. I have used my favourite stone, Tetbury limestone from Veizeys Quarry. I cut it into an octagon and then drew on the design! [nggallery id=110] As you can see from the photos, I have gone all around the outside of the leaves ...

Arty, a Tetbury Limestone carving.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

With this carving I was trying to move away from the stereotypical Green Man-I hope you like him! [nggallery id=122] So with the cheeky face, rams horns and an ivy beard, I think he a rather handsome chap and would make an excellant edition to your garden! He took about 30hrs and costs ...

Carving a Snail Shell

Monday, September 12th, 2011

So I started off with a rectangular block of Tetbury limestone. Once I had set out the geometry of this spiral I made a template and applied it to both sides of the stone. Once carved using a series of chamfers, the stone starts to look like a large comma!! It was ...

A house name in a wall!!

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

It's always rather good when the customer asks me to not only carve the house name, but also to cut out the hole and build it into the wall!! This lovely house name is carved in Forest of Dean Sandstone and the lettering style is a decorative Versal and was widely ...

Watery Gargoyle

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Well here is my latest commission, 28 inches high and carved in Forest of Dean Sandstone! [nggallery id=119] Obviously I tooled the surface of the stone to give the surface a clean finish-rather than just having the saw marks! Once this was complete and I marked the area for carving I started carving ...