Chainsaw artist crafts musketeer sculpture from fallen tree

RED BUD, Ill. - A group of eager school kids gathered outside redbud high school to see the progress on the down tree being turned into a new piece of art.

Luca, the chainsaw artist has been at the school for a couple of days--skillfully welding his chainsaw to carve the sculpture.

"The tree was 4 foot wide lot of big chunk. They need to get down and stuff in them now we’re finally getting to the smaller part where I use smaller detailed chainsaw," Luca Jean said.

The project almost didn’t happen until the school's athletic director, Dane Walter, proposed the idea.

"We’re missing out on the opportunity if we don’t make a life-size musketeer out of this tree cutting down, I knew there was a local guy looked him up. Gave him a phone call and within a few minutes we had him on the on the books and stopped the tree company from cutting down all the way and grinding the stump out," Walter said.

No plans, no designs. The musketeer is being carved all by memory. Luca says the most challenging part of this project is the face.

"Face is the trickiest so it’s not like it’s just so fine and stuff and it’s easy to just make him look like so ugly just because of his face," Jean said.

The sculpture should be finished in the next couple of days and Luca will move onto his next job. And when it is finished, the town of Redbud will forever cherish this new wooden musketeer.