Scott Jenkinson, a local artist and antique collector, has specialized in painting saw blades over the last six years but recently has put down those saw blades for a different kind of saw — a chainsaw.
When a large dead tree in Jenkinson’s yard needed to be cut down, he hired Axe and Timber to come and remove it, though he asked to keep seven-and-a-half feet of the trunk for a special project. He wanted to try his hand at wood carving using the large trunk from his now cut-down dead tree.
At first, he was slightly unsure of what to carve, but an idea quickly came to his mind. Jenkinson saw an old plow in his yard, along with various other old tools, and decided that a self-portrait of himself in a 1910’s era outfit would fit in and add to the scenery of his yard.
"I saw the plow there and I thought ok, why don't I just do (an image of) me back in the 1910s 1912s in that era. You know the old tools sitting out in front of him, I thought it was a great pose with him stretching his back getting off the plow." Jenkinson said when asked why he made it a self-portrait.
Jenkinson used an electric chainsaw to complete his wood carving so that the noise wasn’t unbearable for his neighbours, and it only took him nine days to complete. He had never done woodcarving before this and is immensely proud of what he was able to accomplish.
"Well, the tree had to come down and I thought I'd just give it a shot. I've never used a chainsaw before, and I’m an artist so I thought, well, what the heck." Jenkinson said when asked why he took this project on.
He wants to continue making amazing statues out of wood and hopes to create a statue in the likeness of his wife next. His family and friends are not only amazed but blown away by the creativity and dedication that a project like this takes.
