Fidget Cat - Hand Carved Solid Wood Pocket-Friend Fidget

Fidget Cat - Hand Carved Solid Wood Pocket-Friend Fidget
€40.00

Pocket-Friend fidgets give you company during your stressful days, (and your good ones too) helping to get you through them and Fidget Cat - the very first fidget I carved - has personality to spare when it comes to comforting anyone in need!

 

Standing on Munchkin short legs, tail curled tight to their side, sternly watching the world on your behalf, Fidget Cat is free-standing so can keep you company not just in your pocket but anywhere you want them to sit.

 

Over an hour of sanding with ever finer grit to get Fidget Cat to a satiny smoothness, then a mineral oil rub and extra buffing gives added richness to both how they look, and feel.

 

Aiding in finger mobility as well as proven to help calm and relax, fidgets really are for everyone!

 

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 Chestnut, locally grown and cut sometime in the mid to late 1800s.  We had to remove a large supporting beam and Fidget Cat was created from one of the chips that were made when we cut it out of its place.  It took us two hours to shift the bugger, it was that hard and dense, even power tools took time to chew their way through it.

 

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.