The Endangered Alphabets Project

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This evening’s Endangered Alphabets work. Ten points for identifying the script. A hundred points for being able to work out what it translates to. A thousand points for identifying the wood. I’m a tough judge. endangeredalphabets.com

Another example of what I'm doing these days at the Endangered Alphabets Project. This is a side table in Bubinga wood with the phrase "Unchanging Wellbeing" in Tibetan calligraphy by Tashi Mannox.

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In observance of International Mother Language Day (Feb 21), a series of carvings that say “mother tongue” or the equivalent, in endangered alphabets. A thousand points if you can identify them all! https://www.instagram.com/p/Co0SL-2OJ8M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

This is where I developed the love of wood that led to the Endangered Alphabets Project: this is the wonderful guitar Rick Davis made for me out of flame cherry, Adirondack spruce with bearclaw….. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoGFJUVJVdv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Posting this for my friends at Aksara.Dinusantara: a carving of the phrase “mother tongue” in 20 different traditional scripts of Indonesia. My hat is off to Ridwan Maulana! https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAuLF7u71g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Posting this for my friends at Aksara.Dinusantara: a carving of the phrase “mother tongue” in 20 different traditional scripts of Indonesia. My hat is off to Ridwan Maulana! https://www.instagram.com/p/CoAuLF7u71g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Tibetan tabletop is finished—just waiting for the legs. That Bastogne walnut is different every way you look at it…. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnbLFrrAmG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Just finished this trivet or table centerpiece that say the equivalent of bon appetit in the endangered Balinese script. Lovely curly maple. Want me to make one for you? https://www.instagram.com/p/CnltvyouIfa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I mean, just look at that wood. Bastogne walnut. And this is the UNDERSIDE of the side table I’m making, the bit nobody will see! https://www.instagram.com/p/CniAxpWOBC6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I don’t think I ever posted a photo of the work bench I made for myself. It reads “Do good work” in Javanese. Cherry and butternut. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm4T43IuxOD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=