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Saw this at the place we held my mums memorial service. Entirely made of wood but even in the flesh so to speak and close up if you weren't told it's hard to tell. Truly stunning.
Over 1000 pieces and took the chap over a year. It is for sale also and I did enquire about the price. Unfortunately it's staying put...
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Sent this to my mrs, she does woodwork as a 'hobby' (pun intended) and it will blow her away.
Excellent! Any other links to it? I'd like to show a friend.
No. I took that photo. I can go back and take more of people are interested.
May try and haggle them down on price when I'm there!
How much?
That is ridiculously good, love to have the patience, time and skill to create something like that.
Go on shock us with the price.
I'm gong to punt at £2995.
**cough**£15,000**cough cough**. The chap is open to offers though apparently.
To be fair that price isn't from the guy himself but someone who works at the same place but he's pretty sure it's around that mark.
It's chuffing huge, pretty much life size and I really would like it but don't know where I'd put it or how I'd break the news to Mrs Danny!
He is a genius !!!!!
Clicked on the thread as I saw this last weekend, and was going to say, no actually, I've seen the best. It's amazing in the flesh (wood!). Stunning.
No wonder it hasn't sold!
Appreciate though how that much £ effort must have gone into it.
@beagle - isn't it just. People don't believe me when I show it them. A casual glance even knowing its wood and you're still fooled.
dannybgoode**cough**£15,000**cough cough**. The chap is open to offers though apparently.
Yeah I'd offer him about £14,500 less to start with.
If I'd done something like that I wouldn't want to part with it.
A stunning sculpture, and having some experience in woodcarving ( I have been producing pieces on and off for the past 40 years) I can imagine the skill required and the number of hours that went into it.
Although my pieces are not in the same league being much less complex and significantly smaller, I do not produce them commercially simply because people do not understand the time involved and so are reluctant to pay a reasonable return. I would not be surprised to hear that it took a significant portion of a years full time equivalent work to produce it, so for a (very) skilled craftsman is the price so outrageous?
But having said that I can understand why people may not wish to buy it at that price. However there are other people about who might so hopefully for the maker he will sell it at a reasonable return for them.
I am a pedant at heart and so I would define this as a wood sculpture rather than a woodcarving as the latter is usually considered to be carved from a single piece or at least a very few pieces rather than thousands
@jimw - I was waiting for a pedant to turn up and say it wasn't a carving 🙂 you're right though of course.
It took him over a year and I guess it's a piece of art effectively. Any sculpture or painting of equivalent quality isn't going to be cheap and ultimately the price is immaterial to whether it's an astonishing piece of work or not.
Would I buy it if I genuinely had the money spare so to speak. In a heartbeat...
Glad to oblige , and I am ashamed to be so predictable 😳
Any offers for my work?
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I usually get my firewood for free but if you drop it off I'll make you a cup of tea?
That is very impressive.This is pretty outstanding too:
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