Stone Carving and Letter Cutting
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I have some more slate tumbling at the moment for some new pendants and will be making some more candlesticks.
If you have any ideas for things that you would like to see please to get in touch via my contact page .
I decided to move into the workshop next to the one I was in. This will make me more visible at Taurus Crafts!
However it has meant that I have had to put all my commissions on hold for a few days!
Once I have got resettled I will be able to crack on and make up the time!
At the moment I am working on a pair of Acorns in cups and an Acorn cup on it’s own.
I am carving Forest of Dean Sandstone, which is very hard, but the finish will be lovely-I will post photos as soon as they are complete!
I hope you will be able to come and visit my new look workshop which has a more obvious shop area and working area!
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!
As you can see from the photos, I have gone all around the outside of the leaves and then cut down, cut the depth for the eyes and then repeated the process untill I can start to add finesse to the forms!
This took about 6hrs, it is 7.5×7.5×3 inches and could be mounted onto or built into a wall. It costs £125.
With this carving I was trying to move away from the stereotypical Green Man-I hope you like him!
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 £450.
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 time to re-apply the template to be able to carve the spiral, (look for Bernoulli/Descartes if you wish to know the geometry).
As you can see I am carving down to create the shape, this is all done by eye and touch!
Once I have the required shape, I used a series of different Bouchard hammers to texture the stone-these hammers are excellant for evening out a surface, they look like meat tenderisers!!
I used this finish as the stone was so hard and shelly it would have been incredibly difficult to sand and polish!
This took about 30 hrs and costs £400.