Woodspirit

By the way, apple wood again. Cover linen seed oil.

-- Jiri

Hello Jiri;
—-in-deed great ‘wood art’!
....and I also love the use of ‘apple wood’ that you have gathered. So I see that you are from the Czech republic of Luzna, do you have excess to apple wood//or apple trunks there? I myself use apple wood//trunks often when I find them as diseased….they make great forms of what I call ‘free form’ sculpture. I might add that I like the use of the linseed finish….can you tell the height of the carving and base diameter?

You chainsaw capabilities are very resourceful and creative in the carving of this project….and the figure that you have found within the apple trunk is ’a rustic being of timeless beauty to behold’. I guess one might say add one more to the spiritworld of woodspirits…..

Great chainsaw there also….the Husqvarna.

Thank you for sharing this one with us here at LJ….
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

oh this is wonderful!!!
he’s going to pieces???? say it ain’t so

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

amazing talent !

This is really nice work. I have always admired anyone who can use a chain saw to produce wood art. It is something that is both beyond my abilities and imagination.

Thanks for sharing.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Very nice!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

It looks like he was in the wood the whole time just asking to be revealed.
very cool

-- Hope Never fails

The amazing thing about this piece to me is that, even though it is not a human form, the thing REALLY looks alive!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Hw cool is that.. I always loved chain saws as a kid. The raw destructive power of razors on a spinning chain. How you can turn that into a surgeon’s scalpel and create art is just wonderful.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Thanks for showing woodspirit Jiri. We love him. I’m sure it’ll be a long time before he goes totally to pieces!

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business.

”...slowly going to pieces” ha,,, aren’t we all…..

Great Work.

-- Rob (A) Waxahachie,TX

Friends, thanks for your comments. You exagerate a lot. But it´s pleasant.

-- Jiri

He looks great!

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

nice. good work

-- hap, gunbarrel city tx.

Nice work… What else do you use in addition to the chain saw?

-- Stickman Cliff

Thanks for comments LJs.
Cliff I use a little chiseling and lots of sanding a of course painting.

-- Jiri

Very cool piece of art. Thank you for sharing.

-- Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.