by John White | May 17, 2020 | Creating A Masterpiece
Figure 1Figure 2Figure 3 Figure 1: The original weight of this West Texas juniper log was 475 pounds. When finished the piece was still very close to it’s original dimensions but had lost 450 pounds. Figure 2: The positions of the heads have been...
by John White | May 17, 2020 | Creating A Masterpiece
Figure 1Figure 2Figure 3 Figure 1: The tree is still rooted in the ground. The approximate weight of this West Texas juniper is 350 pounds. Figure 2: The log is cut loose. Note the horse’s rider drawn to the right of the carving mallet. Figure 3: The...
by John White | May 17, 2020 | Creating A Masterpiece
Figure 1Figure 2Figure 3 Figure 1: This 165 pound twisted Texas juniper trunk sits next to a 36-bow saw. It was no easy task to get it out of the canyon. Figure 2: The saw marks are visible as stair steps. Large pieces of wood can be removed buy cutting, then...
by John White | May 17, 2020 | Creating A Masterpiece
Many hours of searching for the right tree to fit the idea, culminate in cutting and removing the log from the deep Texas canyon. It took three trips before a saw was found suitable enough to cut the log. Figure 1: At this early stage some of the original shape of...
by John White | May 17, 2020 | Personal
You can be born to live again… What on earth does that mean?Perhaps you know, or perhaps you think you know. Over 35 years ago a young man thought he knew the meaning of that phrase born again. He had a fair idea anyway of what he thought of people who ascribed...