Francis Ives
october 2020
“Thanks to Wendy, I've received the Ash planks, attached is a first image taken with medium format film, more to follow....”
November 2020
“I've had the ash planks drying outside for a bit, decided to take the plunge and try to cut & plane some of the timber flat so I can begin to divide it up into lengths for steam bending with probably some lamination, you lose a lot of the timber if you insist on straightness! - but as I'm steam bending it doesn't need to be perfect and in all likely-hood will move and twist a bit (or a lot) anyway, I'd like to steam bend using the whole length of the timber, but there's a few knots that could snap whilst bending, so maybe shorter laminated pieces that share the same curve, - anyway, this is my first step which is seeing how many lengths I can get out of the planks! the plan is still to make some kind of simple sculpture of wooden hoops.”
MAY 2022
Making a steam-bent ash hoop…
