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Care and Feeding
Owning a chainsaw sculpture is rewarding and fun. Friends and family love to interact with our work. You will love to tell the story of how this work stole your heart with its good looks but now has come to mean so much more. Over time the basic story of how my work depicts nature interacting with nature will be grow to include a more complex twist. Soon it will include how my sculpture interacts with you and your family.All of our sculptures are sealed with 3-4 coats of an exterior finish so they are fine to display indoors or outdoors. If you are planning on exhibiting your sculpture inside the house, we recommend simply placing the carving on a small felt pad to protect against the possibility of scratching or staining the surface of you mantle, grand piano, or floor with the tanin's in the wood. It is likely you will need to do nothing else to maintain it.
If you are planning on displaying your sculpture outside, Dave recomends placing the carving up off the ground about 1/2 an inch with either several small nuts (from that big jar of nuts in the garage) or by placing the carving on 3-4 water bottle caps. this allows for a small ammount of air flow below the carving and prevents moisture from leaching back under the finsish.
Dave also recomends top coating your carving once a year with either a Semi-Gloss Spar Varnish (the same finish you use on your yacht) or a quality polyurethane finish. Both products are readily availible at your local home improvent center or hardware store. The object is not to add too much build to the surface. Rather, we recomend thinning the finish about 10-15% with mineral spirits and applying a thin even coat.
A couple suggestions:
Carvings are a lot of fun and not one of us is really looking to add more "honey do's" to our list. Keep it simple. when you stop by the hardware store, pick up about 3-4 of those $.39 chip brushes and just use them and dispose of them.
Pick a nice sunny day for this 10 minuite project. Finishes dry better when the humidity is less than 50% and the temp is about 80 degrees (feirenheit of course).
