Chainsaw Craft can be found at Rashfield, near Dunoon.

 

Situated within the Argyll Forest, gateway to Scotland’s first National Park.

 

Andy is fortunate to be able to work from home, where he lives with his wife and young family.

 

Visitors are welcome to call in and browse the carvings on display, whilst watching Andy bring sculptures to life from a piece of wood - using only a chainsaw.

 

Andy also demonstrates his skills at events during the summer months. From small gala days to the Royal Highland Show, safari parks to country parks. He is also an award winner at Scotland’s only chainsaw carving competition, held at Carrbridge in the Highlands. Onlookers are fascinated to watch a sculpture appear, from start to finish, in an incredibly short space of time.

 

As Andy’s reputation grows Chainsaw Craft carvings can be found all over the country, and due to the high volume of visitors to the Dunoon area he has seen thistles travel to England, eagles off to Wales, owls as hand luggage to America and even an otter shipped to Dubai!

 

Most sculptures are purchased as a garden feature, perhaps to bring nature to a townhouse patio or to enhance an acre of wilderness.

Andy will also gladly accept commissions. This may be as simple as a previously seen sculpture made to a specific size, or to produce an incredible likeness of the family pet by working from photographs, even to create a carving from the stump of a felled tree in your garden. As Andy is also a qualified tree surgeon he can even remove the tree first!

 

Andy loves the challenge of creating something completely different and in the past has been commissioned to create many obscure sculptures he wouldn’t have thought to attempt himself but that have personal relevance to the client. For example; a landrover, a hand, an alpaca or the Loch Fyne monster! To name but a few.

Chainsaw Craft is often commissioned to create either individual pieces or entire themes for children’s playgrounds, caravan or adventure parks, community gardens or woodland walks.

No job is too big, or too small and the unique qualities of chainsaw sculpture prove to be incredibly popular.