Bespoke Winding Sticks

These pairs of winding sticks are made of tigerwood, leftover pieces from a previous hardwood flooring project.

Inlay strips: maple, purpleheart, yellowheart (? – the name escapes me) and walnut.

I used a plow plane to cut the grooves for the inlay strips and a skew rabbet plane to bevel the faces (one pair with a 5-degree fence and the other a 10-degree fence).

Finish: Four diluted coats of boiled linseed oil

Other shop photos:

The plow plane’s stop did a great job in keeping the grooves to the desired depth—consistently

I made the bottom wider and the top shorter for stability

The interlocked grain was best dealt with by a card scraper

Unbelievable precision and accuracy can be achieved with hand tools (assuming the digital caliper was accurate)

A personalized shop aid ready to be used

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