THe old ones are the bestest.
Your balls that started this thread rolling back in February seem to have been cut during the data black out :(
I'm just about finishing another, which I'll post as soon as I'm done.
Hey Mouse! Gabe & Gill are on their way now!
Just finished my fifth ball in record time. It's got two scenes of the German occupation.
The first is taken from a recruiting poster for the Legion of St. George, a legion of British Nazi soldiers recruited from the Channel Islands and from the ranks of prisoners of war. The Jerseyese don't like to admit this part of their history, but I felt the St. George reference made it directly relevant.
The second scene is of the German occupation of Gorey castle (where my balls will be on permanent display). One of the soldiers is chucking out of the window half of a much battered statue of St. Mary, who has already suffered the indignity of being built into a wall during the reformation.
My next might be the dragon one I've been saving up (NOT St. George, actually, but a Marian legend), full of action and gore and coils. Or one about a fraudulent priest. Either wouid be fun.
You are the wood-god :D
And eeef for working on them that tiny, with the ammount my hands shake doing stuff like that, I'd need to work on balls with 5m diametre!
They would be bloody impressive, mind
:-O
How much are you charging them for that kind of work? I wish I had some sort of something I needed done in wood, if I did I'd have you do it.
They are brilliant!!
And the thread is back as well!
Bloody loads. I'm being paid £7,500 for the twelve. Though that's inclusive, so my research trip had to come out of it (about £300), and materials (only about £300, for musical instrument grade boxwood courtesy of Prince Charles - well, Highgrove estate, anyway), and blades (£150 and rising)
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It will not die, as long as I have balls to offer my lovely friends.
mehehe
What do the balls with the flat carvings look like?
I can't imagine the shape overall.
The middle photo is of the two halves assembled.
what is with this thread? i remember reading it last term! it has survived all of my easter holiday, and still appears to be going strong!!!!
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