Archive for the ‘War memorial’ Category

Update on the new war memorial.

Tuesday, December 29th, 2020

I have managed to spend a couple of days working on the 1st world war soldier but as you can imagine it was quite busy at Taurus Crafts. I am looking forward to getting back on with the carving in January. I have put some short videos on my YouTube channel it ...

Carving a soldier

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

I started carving the WWI soldier on the new war memorial for Mitcheldean and Abenhall yesterday, I made a short video of me starting to rough out around the outline of the shape. Carving my soldier - YouTube  I made excellent progress today and here are some photos including the photo of ...

Progress on the War memorial

Sunday, September 6th, 2020

Sorry that it has been so long since my last update, I have been working very hard on the war memorial. Here are a few photos from the last 4 weeks showing the developing carving and where I am as of today. [nggallery id=452] I still have some work to do on the ...

War memorial carving

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020

I have had a busy few weeks. The gantry crane was swapped over on 21st July and the stone was put upright on the 24th July, I spent 4 days drawing the names and words on the stone. On Tuesday 28th July April the Clerk from the Parish council came and ...

Lifting the stone

Friday, July 24th, 2020

Today was the day, the stone was lifted upright by a dedicated sculpture moving team. The stone weighs just over 3.5 tonnes so the 5t lifting equipment was just what was needed. With a bit of adjustment and re-positioning of the stone the lifting could commence. [nggallery id=449] Between Damon and Max ...