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[weaving wolf]

I have gotten into making toys and perches out of manzinita and I need support. are thier any tutorial videos or groups that get together physically too make toys. This art is out of grieving for our beloved chickpea and can be rather difficult sometimes. the manzinita grows in the woods behind my house! i love my house

 

[rheashard2]

I wish you well. I don't know anything about working with wood. Hopefully someone can help you. I do know this. Working a craft csn definitely help with grief. I crochet projects and donated these to childrens foundations or children's cancer. It helped so much with each of my pet deaths.

 

[wrench13]

The trick with working with very hard, tough woods, like manzanita, is super sharp cutting edges on tools with high performance inserts and the like. Woods like this quickly dull the cutting edge and you wind up with ragged cuts, imprecise lines and lots of smoke as the wood is burned from friction rather then actually cutting. You need an effective way to resharpen the edges quickly and make sure to resharpen as soon as the tool shows signs of being duller.

 

[weaving wolf]

thank ye me hardy...i be also creatin storytails of a parrot realm of sorts with vivid poetry and my passed dusky divas love threads