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Getting ready to carve a poem around a seating area in Skipton wood
Today we went to Skpton to get ready for a commission we've been asked to do for the Woodland Trust. We've been asked to carve a poem...
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The Making Of The Ale Stone
We were asked by our good friend Alan McEwen from Dandelion Stone Troughs if we could make a table top in the form of a millstone. This...
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Marble Fingers #2
As you may remember just before we broke up for Christmas a gentleman came to the workshop with a statue of a little girl that had been...
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Because their names are covered in snow
The cold frozen monaliths of a time standing still, In a grave yard on top of a Yorkshire hill, With winters so harsh they've survived...
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A Yorkshire rose repairs a fireplace
Your probably thinking how can a Yorkshire rose repair a fireplace? Well i'm about to tell you. We had a customer come to us about a...
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Testimonial from Mother Shiptons Cave, Knaresborough
​ “Swales in the Dales created a carved stone to be placed within the Mother Shipton’s Cave park in Knaresborough. This creates added...
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Leigh Mill House Grindstone House Name
Today October 21st 2016 I finished the carving of a house name for my good friends Alan and Christine McEwen from Dandelion Stone...
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Bracken Ghyll Golf Club
Today Wednesday October 19th 2016 I completed the carving on the huge lump of Yorkshire stone up at Bracken Ghyll Golf Club, Addingham,...
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My Daddy and his work
My Daddy is very good at carving and he works very hard even when he is poorly with his illness. Daddy does amazing work for his...
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A repair to a crack in a mantle.
Today 27th September we set off up to Skyreholme in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales to a customer who had a crack in their mantle piece....