The primitive is coming along, but the wood is shifting like mad!I've tried to take the new pic at about the same angle, for comparison but I don't know if it's the same way round. I haven't done any bending and one limb has moved into a slight reflex on it's own, this makes the other seem very weak by comparison.
You can see how much wood I've removed. I shall steam bend the deflexed limb to match the reflex one. It's also taken a bit of sideways bend and it may need a slight lateral correction at some point, mind the tips still have a bit of width so I may get it all to line up, albeit with a slight S shaped lateral curve adding some character. The heart and sap wood is a bit of a mix and match, being well defined on one edge and a bit vague on the other. I'll try and go with the flow and see how it turns out, it's not a stave you can simply cut out straight ignoring what it wants to do.
Do you think it is just reaction wood? I would have assumed it was still wet.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how it was sitting in the tree, so I've no idea! I can only react to what it does.The sapwood is rather dark, so maybe it was under a load whilst in the tree.
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