Pins

Wearable inlay pins? or refrigerator magnets? Your choice.

These are made from samples of inlay from one of my earlier books, and in the effort of clearing a few things out, are being turned to use... After finishing, and the colors of the woods come to life, magnets will be fitted to the backs to which the inlay has been glued.

Years ago at War Eagle craft show, a neighbor was selling hand crafted stools and children's tables. I explained my process for making inlay and he turned that by the next year into a highly successful craft business, by changing the scale of the work— small enough to make earrings. I stuck with the larger scale of things so that individual species of wood might be discerned and known in contrast to each other.

Make, fix and create...