Ancient Wood Doughnut Fidget

The world has enough plastic in it, and I love spinners, and could find NOTHING natural when I wanted to treat myself to one so I invented these, a fidget that does nothing but good in the world.

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

Its simple shape is easy and soothing to rub and fidget with, and aids in developing limberness in the fingers.  Round, a deep rich soot stained near black, it took hundreds of years to develop the patina and I was careful to leave it intact while still carving the ancient bit of timber into a pleasant form.

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 the wood in it) has been around for awhile.

As the wood is so old, it has buckets of character in the form of deeply embedded smoke, knots, 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.