The next animal in our menagerie at Nobel park. Those of you who’ve followed us for a while will know that we’ve made loads of bloody squirrels! We think this is our fifth one. If ever you’re considering commissioning a carving from us, please please please pick something else!!! - - #squirrel #nobelparken #chainsawcarving #woodsculpture…

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Jay bird and acorn. We made a whole load of sculptures and benches for Nobel park so expect an onslaught of posts over the next few days as each piece gets installed. We turned up today to take some pictures and found the local kids climbing and crawling all over them. One cheeky chap was…

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Fantastic Mr. fox and wonderful Mrs. fox. Two more larger than life animals find a home in Nobelpark. Let’s hope they don’t attack any tourists this summer. - - #fantasticmrfox #fox #urbananimals #woodensculpture #chainsawcarving #parkart

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Woodpeckers from Mars! We released another creature into the wilds of Nobelpark today. This time it was an enormous great-spotted woodpecker. It’s supposed to be a fun thing for the local kids to find during their explorations of the wooded park. For us however, it’s an experiment into whether real woodpeckers will freak out and…

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We made these longhorn beetles (Plagionotus detritus) 6 months ago. Today they finally emerged from their plastic wrap cocoons and moved into their new home. They are now installed on a huge mulmholk in Nobelparken in the east side of Stockholm. Hopefully they will capture people’s attention and help promote the importance of creating valuable…

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When a tree is felled in a city park, doesn’t it make sense to use the wood from that tree to renovate all the shabby benches in the local vicinity? We think so. These beautiful, unique oak benches were built this morning, by the afternoon we had an order for more of the same in…

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At Ravenwood we also make minibars. We had the two components laying around at the wood yard for ages so it was great to finally put them to good use. A bit of finishing and a few cans of gold spray paint and it was ready to rock. Hopefully it got a lot of use…

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Ok, so as promised, here are some photos of the weird creatures from the last post, finally installed in their beautiful woodland home. God knows what they put in the water in Bro but it seems to have a wonderful effect on their imaginations. - - #upplandsbro #weirdanimals #chainsawcarving #freakysculptures #acidhouse #beoutdoors #woodlandfun #butterflysculpture #dogsculpture…

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Never work with children or animals. Or at least that’s what actors say. This is definitely the weirdest project we’ve done so far. We worked strictly from “designs” by local children in Upplands-Bro. We were pretty skeptical at first but, we are all very pleased with the end results. We can’t wait to see these…

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Woodpeckers work very hard to create valuable cavities in tree stems. However, when a tree becomes riddled in holes the tree becomes structurally unstable and in an urban environment these trees are considered hazardous. Not wishing to destroy all the woodpecker’s efforts we decided to save as many as we could and turn them into…

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A wise old owl watching over Bro centrum and a clutch of eggs waiting to hatch. So concludes this week’s project. Many thanks to Jules, our excellent skylift captain who also found the time to bang out a rather splendid mushroom. - - #owl #chainsawcarving #upplandsbro #woodisgood

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We get all sorts of weird and wonderful lumps of wood turning up at our wood yard. From huge cavernous hollow stems, spaghetti tangles of branches and giant burls, all the way to ready made oak mulmholks. Some of these pieces lay around for ages before they find a new life, others come in and…

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