{"id":3153,"date":"2016-04-17T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2016-04-17T19:58:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:58:39","slug":"forest-fairies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/04\/17\/forest-fairies\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Fairies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was asked by Eibe Play Ltd to carve six oak panels for a play area in Alice Holt Forest in Surrey, all with a woodland fairy\/elf theme; we’d had several discussions initially about me perhaps carving some large logs\u00a0 from home, which would then be transported to Surrey and then set in the ground at the play area ~ and this was the basis for this fantastic promotional film from Eibe : https:\/\/vimeo.com\/146232653<\/a> , which cleverly superimposes some images of past carvings on to trunks to give a sense of the finished look.<\/p>\n

It was soon agreed that to carve and fix panels to existing stumps on site would be the best thing to do, and I ordered six panels of oak, each 800mm x 500mm x 75mm and got to work.<\/p>\n

I had to flatten each panel with an electric hand planer as there was a certain amount of\u00a0 “cupping”, and no-one I know has a thicknesser to cope with timber this size. Then it was the usual process of tracing my designs on the oak and chipping away.<\/p>\n

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I was working to a completion date of the end of April, so the pressure was on!<\/p>\n

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Leveling the background on the last panel.<\/p>\n

A small concern was how to package the panels, as I didn’t want them arriving in Surrey with a nose missing; luckily I happened upon a listing on Gumtree’s “Freebie” section, where a chap was getting rid of a number of boxes of large bubble wrap, which was perfect. What luck! It took nearly as long to package the panels as it did to carve them.<\/p>\n

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The finished panels:<\/p>\n

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Photos of the individual panels, with close-ups, will appear on the gallery pages shortly.<\/p>\n

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