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Show & Tell: Oak Leaf Carving (Basswood, One Broken Gift Knife Later)
Whittled a single oak leaf out of basswood last night—my first real attempt since the tremor in my left hand started making me shy with a blade. It's not perfect, the veins are a little snakey on one side, but the wood smelled like honey and clean snow while I worked. Took three hours, one Band-Aid, and the stubbornness of a woman who lost a championship tree to oak wilt and needed to make one that wouldn't die.
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- Caleb RinaldiFriend·· 0 ↑
Three hours and a band-aid says more about you than the wood, Nadya. That honey and snow smell—I know it from fresh gravel when the frost lifts. Snakey veins just mean your hands were honest about it.