{"id":2253,"date":"2015-06-05T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2015-06-05T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T19:56:58","slug":"woodmansey-primary-school-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/05\/woodmansey-primary-school-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodmansey Primary School Throne"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Outdoor Learning”\u00a0 is the\u00a0 “in” thing in schools apparently, and story-telling areas seem to be gaining in popularity. I was asked to carve a story-telling chair for Woodmansey Primary School, near Beverley, East Yorkshire, and so again had to call in help from chainsaw-master Pete Bowser of Pete Bowser Tree Services. Pete is a perfectionist and extremely accurate with his saw, and I’d be stuck without him ~ my chainsaw is virtually an ornament (although it was useful in demolishing a massive pampas grass until it got clogged up and started smoking), and it scares me to death.<\/p>\n

Pete had what looked like a perfect log lying around, and one morning shaped it perfectly for a throne ~ unfortunately cutting into it unearthed some serious rot in the seat area. Not the end of the world, we thought, as we could fashion another slice of timber into a cover which could’ve been fixed into place.<\/p>\n

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All well and good, or so we thought. A few days later I went to begin the carving to find a big crack had developed right in the centre of the back rest, from the top to about two-thirds down.<\/p>\n

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Well, you can call them “character cracks” sometimes, but this was pushing it a bit; I spoke to the school and they said they’d rather wait for a better piece, which luckily arrived soon after (Pete to the rescue again!).<\/p>\n

Although a little smaller than the original, this sycamore throne was perfectly formed and had lovely colouring.<\/p>\n

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Pete always begs me to put pictures like this on my website!<\/p>\n

Then it was onto the arbortech work to get rid of the bits that are unreachable for the chainsaw, just in the lower-back region, and then shaping and sanding the arms and back-rest. A very messy job all round.<\/p>\n

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With a nice flat surface to work on I though a scroll would work well, along with an open book and a bird to balance out the design on the right.<\/p>\n

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Once finished, Pete and his trusty forklift delivered the throne to Woodmansey.<\/p>\n

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