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My wife's woodworking


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Here is something that I thought folks might like to see. My wife makes these hair sticks by hand, using all natural wood. Most of the wood is gathered by her in the forest. There are many hours of work in each one. The sanding and oil sanding is meticulous, starting out with graduated sanding grit from 100 grit and all the way up to 1500 grit with oil on highly polished sticks.

I edited this post because I just remembered that my wife makes sticks out of stuff other than natural wood that she has gathered herself. She has also made them out of bone and antler, they were gorgeous and looked a lot like ivory.

She has also made some custom sticks from exotic wood that she has to buy, but she doesn’t like to do custom orders because of the time factor and difficulty in trying to describe to a customer just what the finished product will look like.

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Bro. Scott, I did notice in your picture that these sticks probably wouldn't work for you.   :15_1_63:

Bro. WW, yes she is really good at detailing. Nothing leave her house with the slightest imperfection. I am continually amazed at the amount of time she puts into her work. And this is only to produce a finished product. When she was teaching herself to do this, she spent countless hours of trial and error. She tried many different kinds of finishes, like wax (many different kinds) and oils. I never knew there were so many different kinds of oil. And I never would have thought of finish sanding with oil.

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