My hubris is growing 😔
All jokes aside, I'm very happy with how well this is going. This spindle is from a dowel, but I was working on a piece of I think cherry earlier that was too gorgeous. It unfortunately had a crack that went too deep to work out. I've got a big pile of cherry and pear, though, that I'd like to make a few nice spindles and maybe spools out of. It's from a couple trees I'm a bit sentimental over, though, so I want to get a bit more practice first.















