{"id":1531,"date":"2014-10-15T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2014-10-15T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T21:33:23","slug":"a-trio-of-trunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/15\/a-trio-of-trunks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trio of Trunks"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s often the case that customers only have a vague idea about a design when they are commissioning a carving; not everyone can think in these terms, or can picture their ideas as a sculpture. Sometimes it’s just a matter of teasing out the ideas and forming them into an image, while others prefer to be led on what will be a pleasing design.<\/p>\n

It’s very rare that you meet a customer, like this one, who has not just one idea, but half a dozen! It certainly made a nice change, and was a welcome challenge; luckily there are three beech trunks to work on, so I can spread the design across them all.<\/p>\n

The ideas were as follows…(deep breath!)<\/p>\n

Musical notes \/ instruments –\u00a0Drumsticks maybe, or a\u00a0guitar ; a\u00a0 double helix maybe?\u00a0 Symbols to represent hope, love and strength \u00a0– swallows, moon or star and an eagle \u00a0– or a jaguar ; an elephant, as the house is built on the site of the old zoo.<\/p>\n

So, some really fantastic, unique ideas there ~ the question was how to mould them together.<\/p>\n

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Taking an influence from the local landscape, I thought the famous Beverley Minster musician carvings would be perfect to adapt for a drummer and guitarist, and would work on the two outside trunks ~ perhaps with zoo animals in the middle. Linking them all together would be some musical notation and a weaving pattern of a double helix (which itself has a\u00a0 “major” and\u00a0 “minor” part, again linking with the music).<\/p>\n

After being held up (yet again this month) by the rain, I finally got to the site today and firstly took off the bark.<\/p>\n

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I wasn’t the first to attempt carving these trees!<\/p>\n

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Then the design drawn on as a guide:<\/p>\n

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The original designs of the musicians had moustaches, like the Beverley carvings, but they’ve since been shaved.<\/p>\n

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I left it at this stage today, not a bad start for the first session. The drum required some patience, trying to achieve a flat plane on a curved face.<\/p>\n

Weather permitting I should make good progress with the head tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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It’s often the case that customers only have a vague idea about a design when they are commissioning a carving; not everyone can think in these terms, or can picture their ideas as a sculpture. Sometimes it’s just a matter of teasing out the ideas and forming them into an image, while others prefer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carving-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}