{"id":3391,"date":"2016-07-23T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stichler.co.uk\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2016-07-23T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T07:05:11","slug":"new-newport-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/07\/23\/new-newport-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"New Newport Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been a nice job, working in a nice environment with the enthusiastic staff and children of Newport Primary School ~ and lots of timber to plough through.<\/p>\n

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The smaller stumps are being utilized for a nature trail in the school, and further to that there are a few larger logs which are being used for the school’s mottoes or values; a ten-foot trunk was earmarked for the pupils’ workshop sculpture.<\/p>\n

Previous posts have shown the ongoing process, with an owl, frog and squirrel already carved; I plumped for a snail on the next one, so once a suitable log was found I set to work copying my sketch onto the surface.<\/p>\n

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The poplar wood is so soft it’s easy to make good progress relatively quickly.<\/p>\n

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I think the patterns on the shell make all the difference.<\/p>\n

A\u00a0 quick detour after the snail, to carve some lettering on a log bench which is a popular spot for the pupils.<\/p>\n

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A rabbit next, the last element of the wildlife trail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been a nice job, working in a nice environment with the enthusiastic staff and children of Newport Primary School ~ and lots of timber to plough through. The smaller stumps are being utilized for a nature trail in the school, and further to that there are a few larger logs which are being […]<\/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-3391","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\/3391","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=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stichler.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}