Very nice. I made it all the way through both videos. Thank you for the video. Paul.

"turned out quite nice" is the understatement of the year … nay … the century. Stunning piece and display of skills Andy. Cheers Mike

great set of videos! Thanks for sharing.

Andy, I can see you are a fast worker, but not compromising quality in your carving. That only comes with many years of tapping! I like the no nonsense approach, typical Yorkshire I guess! I am a craft level letter carver and will give this project a try. Thank you!

Andy great video your hand skills & confidence when carving are greater than people think i am starting stone carving at local club and its not as easy as you make it look all credit to you. i will give it a go and try and make it look like your finished carving

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Am just a beginner Oamaru stone carver and found your videos very useful, thanks very much.

Ho yes bin a subscriber for week or 2 now and I will keep watching and commenting. As long as you keep putting them out there 🤪

For one Yorkshire man to another well done muker loving the video 👍🏽

I LIKE SO MUCH YOUR WORK. THANKS SO MUCH

That's an amazing piece of art...great job!

thankyou so much! it's really help me for my interior design lecture assignment! :)

Good

Hi Andy, fascinating work. I would love to learn to carve stone like that but I don't have the facilities! In the time being I get my fix by watching videos like yours on the net. I've been trying to find one of somebody carving a "festoon" type of wreath (like the one on the Wikipedia page), that would be amazing to see since it features on so many classical and traditional buildings, and also on memorials

Great videos Andy!

Thanks so much Andy This is lovely. So nice to watch I'm starting to stone carve myself and it was good to see how you angled the chisel. We're the petal and leaf surfaces dome with bullnose chisels? What we're the widths of them. I need to get myself a few.so.doing some research Thanks again for showing such a beatific creation 😌🏔🪄

Thank you, Andy! It was a pleasure seeing how someone else carves stone. What limestone was this? It seems incredibly soft. Would love to have some students learn on a soft stone like this. Was nice hearing the tap-tap-tapping in real time as well.

Lovely piece of work! Are you going to protect it with tallow & lime mix?

This is really fabulous now it's finished. How did you learn to do carving?

I am a 23 year old. I have never carved stone before. I like the idea of it vs. sculpting because of the textures achieved, and I find it more impressive due to the impact of making a mistake. I have been interested in stone carving for many months now. How would you suggest someone who doesn't do this as a trade get started? I am also from the UK, do you have any recommendations on sourcing limestone? It seems like a good starter stone? Thank you for taking the time to upload this. Truly stunning work.

Great vid. just wondering if it was a bull nose chisel u were using for most of this. Be great for us newbies if u could drop this info into commentary aswell. Ps is it Portland stone ur using.

Dear Andy ! It is beautiful. I'm from Hungary. What kind of limestone is suituble for this ? I have hier at home a lot of limstone.

Andy, That is incredible. How long did the whole process take from start to finish? I'm hoping to meet Mike at MC on Saturday. Cheers, Huw

Hi, how much would an item like that sell for?

Hi there Andy amazing video thank you very much for showing me how it's done and talking through it i need help x I am a gold Smith + Meany different talents not to be big headed at all, I bet you are the same as me im sure of that my friend. I'm telling you this not for any sympathy at all just some help i live in Spain Costa blanca today I put to rest my best friend my sister Wendy in spain and all of Europe mostly thay cremated or buried above ground in a mausoleum so that's what had to be done because of brex,,shit + are worlds problems with c.19 so she will be here not home were she belongs so with your help if possible I would love to create something from sandstone or marble to put on the front of her mausoleum made by me till I can get her home,on Monday because of all the lock downs will have all the dimensions from what to work with if you can help it would be very appreciated all the best my friend thank you x

Hi Andy! How have you been this week? I should think that you must have been very busy in many ways over the last couple of days... Still, I hope that you have been able to get some quiet time and find a little peace in your days, and that the critical situation with gas and fuel have not made your life too complicated on top of everything else... Here we are still okay for now, but I have a feeling that we are all heading towards tough times as far as availability of crude oil, gas and fuel are concerned... Anyway... I have just watched the two rose carving videos... Soooo beautiful, Andy 😊👍🏻 I am not sure what impresses me more, your drawing skills or your carving skills... Excellency at work, I would say... “I’m a bit rusty” is the understatement of the century 😝 The way you draw these straight lines is fascinating, just to start with... and looking at the finished carving I am thinking to myself how on Earth did he get this shape out of that flat and boring looking piece of limestone... Well, once an artist, always an artist, I suppose! Talent is hard to get rid of, ha ha 😉 By the way, this rose looks like the coat of arms of my village (“my” village always makes me think of a Nigerian chief who I had the dubious pleasure of working with about thirty years ago... He used to call me out of the Nigerian jungle about once a week and would talk at length about “his” village, his seven wives and 46 children, just to ask for spare parts worth several thousands of Swiss Francs in the last 2 minutes of the conversation and then he would hang up on me claiming a bad connection... I swear I am NOT exaggerating for effect, these are the numbers he gave me, ha ha...) Well, “our” coat of arms looks practically identical, with subtle differences in the leaves, but it is very close! Beautifully done, Andy, what else is there to say, bravo 👏🏻 So, I hope you will have a mild and peaceful week with some sunshine... We are having a couple of mild and sunny days, but I hear it will get colder on Tuesday... Let’s see... Take care, Andy, be well 🙏🏻 Cheerio from the rose village 😉👋🏻👋🏻 Jude