This week is half term so my son Ollie has been helping out on my bridge at Padley Gorge (someone must have had a vivid imagination when they names it) Here we have just fixed the handrails on using copper boat nails.
and the lower rails mostly fitted.
I had a day cutting bowl blanks too, thought I would just do a quick snap to show how sometimes I have to stop for passers by. This is the start of the Penine way England’s most famous long distance footpath.
Another crackin bridge Robin. With a good aprentice to help!Do you cut out your bowl blanks with the chainsaw? It looks like you do, how do you hold them as they get smaller? :)Brian(:
I do Brian but I never tell folk how I do it. Why not? Before I was a turner I was a full time forester and tree surgeon and played with chain saw sculpture like these https://www.robin-wood.co.uk/garden-sculpture.htmI advise folk to use the tools they know, a bandsaw may do the job better for me but I never really used them. Axes work well. Most folk would be dangerous trying to cut blanks with a chain saw, it is all about technique. I don't hold it, it just sits on a chopping block as I carve.