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Apple wood runes

So having developed a taste for creating things in wood, I decided to try wooden runes. Not having a proper wood burning tool a tried using a soldering iron... I think they turned out well considering.
The leather pouch was also handmade tho I must give credit to my mother for that.

Hawthorn runes

By the time I made these I had gotten a proper pyrography set and a dremel-like tool. Not only did this make burning the runes into the wood easier, but I found that a tiny sanding disc attachment on the tool thing smoothed the runes to a wonderful finish.
Given the fact that I held each rune in turn in one hand while I worked the sander over it on a flexible extension with the other, this still felt very much like a hand-tool project.
A burring attachment allowed me to carve into the leather for this pouch to produce the old logo for my aunt's web site.