Off the wall ideas!!

It must have taken you ages to stack that lot! Thinking seasonally Eddie, it looks like a Christmas pudding but just needs a couple of giant holly leaves in the top!

 

I thought exactly the same when I came into the house and looked out of the window at it.:D It has to be done!!:D

Time wise, I'm not sure if it has been three or four Sunday mornings work. Oddly I'm finding it very relaxing to do. I can just switch off and let things drift into or out of my head. Periodically I found that I was getting annoyed by the overgrown state of the neighbours garden, and the brambles that seem to always come through to our side. My annoyance showed on what I was doing and the stacking wasn't working. Switch mind set again to something positive and things seem to work and flow. Just goes to show that a positive outlook is better than a negative one.

 

Sheal, I'm currently quite excited as I took the piece of oak in today to be sand blasted. I've never had anything wooden sand blasted before and I'm really looking forward to seeing the result.
The best bit is that I can pick it back up again tomorrow. I had been expecting to wait months.

I'm also now leaning towards not carving the piece it all, but instead placing it upon two stainless steel tubes which shall go into the ground or concrete. I can't wait to see how it develops.

 

Wood comes out looking like driftwood when sandblasted, it picks the softer growth out, leaving the harder wood proud. Looks really nice.

 

That is just what I was banking on.

The sap wood is obviously rot but the wood behind is as hard as nails, so I'm hoping for some very good results.

 

Don`t forget the pics Eddie.:D:D

 

I collected the piece of oak today, and to say that I am impressed with the difference is quite an understatement.

Sadly the photos that I took quickly today don't do it justice, so I'll put it back in workshop on Tuesday and take some like for like photos.

 

It`s a Seahorse.:D:D:D

 

Yep a sea horse



Turn the head end to the other side and you get this. A prehistoric 'Something a ma beast':D

 

Or look at the other end, image 6, and it`s a conger eel.

 

I can see it as some sort of serpent on the bow of a Viking long boat.
I liked Dai's ideas though, they can already be seen in the wood. I also like the ridges in the wood, reminds me of a Cadbury's flake.

This one's going to be interesting Eddie, look forward to seeing the progress.

 

I find it amazing and brilliant that one piece of wood can get differing opinions about its shape and form.
I'm really pleased about that, as it already has intrigue without me having laid a finger upon upon it. Nature at it's best.

Before the wood was blasted clean, one of my original ideas was to run a chainsaw down its length, and so create two pieces of work from it. There is now no way that I shall do this, and I'm now loathe to do pretty much anything else to it other than mount it on to two polished stainless rods and suspend it away from the ground.

I'm at that nervous about wrecking it stage!:o:D

 

Being half Viking I would like to see that Seahorse on the prow of a longboat.:D

 

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You don't want much do you!!!:D


This bit of wood is also currently sitting in my workshop. It's far bigger than it looks, and I can't even lift it.



It sadly doesn't belong to me, but I brought it into the workshop from the sawmill to show someone how it may look as a garden bench. With a little work and then sand blasted, I reckon that it could look very very nice. With me not currently having any work I can't buy it, which is a big shame.:(

 

Eddie, that second piece of oak with the top just sanded and sealed would be a suberb garden bench. The seahorse doesn`t need to be attached to the prow of a Viking longboat. Just positioned in the situation.