pre christmas

We did a cleft oak fence for a house near Pendleton. this is the original softwood one.

the fence went round in an arc shape so we had to do a lot of shaping on the tenons on the cleft rails as we put the fence in.

a farm cat from up the track came to cadge some food, he was quite a pushy little fella.

James invited me to join him at his stall at the Kendal brewery arts centre Christmas craft fair. i tried an experiment with kerf bent cleft oak Christmas cards with carved and pyrographed fronts.

this our set up. we both did well, kept busy with gypsy flowers and christmas trees. i sold all but one of my 16 spoons, sold out of butter knives (1) and my sold yew bowl. We even sold one of ians pimps! i also had a lot of interest in the banjo with a lot of questions and general interest and also a potential commission for the next one.

Christmas trees were a quick and easy way to double the value of each piece of gypsy flower wood, using the pointy bit left, carving it some ‘leaves’ and putting it on a small willow off cut.

magic wand for the world famous magic Karl.