Archive for the ‘War memorial’ Category
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 ...
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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.
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I made excellent progress today and here are some photos including the photo of ...
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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.
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I still have some work to do on the ...
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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 ...
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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.
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