Hand Carved Wooden Fidget

Deceptively simple, this surprisingly complex fidget consists of carved beads connected in a circle.

Soothing indeed as you run it round and round your fingers, helping to reduce stress the combination of smooth / textured delights and relaxes.

As it took twice as long to make as some of my other shapes, I’ll probably never again make one like this.

The wood I carved this one from is most likely heart-wood chestnut, locally grown and cut sometime in the mid to late 1800s.

Currently we are renovating an ancient property in the mountains of Portugal which is the source of the wood I'm using for making fidgets and fidget spinners. The wood is from the kitchen loft and as the house is old enough to still have an open hearth in the kitchen and Roman pottery sherds in the floor, this place, and its wood, has been around for awhile.

The wood is so old, it has buckets of character in the form of deeply embedded smoke, knots, dark growth lines, beetle holes and places I've pulled ancient nails (most of them hand forged) free, each and every fidget is a unique and beautiful work of art, taking as long to sand to satiny smoothness as they do to carve.

Photographed with and without flash.