heard of ray murphy?

[jmethodrose]

for anyone who hasn't heard of ray murphy, he's definitely worth looking up! I heard of him for the first time today, turns out he's carved the entire alphabet into a pencil with his chainsaw!

has anyone been to one of his shows? if I ever get the opportunity I would love to go, but I'm in the wrong country, with an ocean in the way!

so in the meantime, I guess I'll be going through a LOT of pencils... I like a challenge!

cheers,
Joe

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/18090
http://www.flashnews.com/news/wfn10100416fn29841.html

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Ray sawed 15 numbers on the side of a popsicle stick, flipped it over, and sawed the alphabet on the other. He sawed an audience member's name onto a pencil, then sharpened the pencil with the chainsaw. He took a volunteer into the booth and sawed his name into a wooden belt buckle while the nervous man was wearing it

I thought I'd seen the best chainsaw artist, but..... :jawdrop:

 

[betterbuilt]

Wow. that was pretty interesting.

 

[Toddppm]

I'd pay to see that and he does it with diesel chainsaws too!

"But in the booth, his beard peppered with pine chips, diesel smoke swirling around him,"