those are the first two cubes I made for the alphabet wooden cube collection. and although they are highly imperfect, I can’t help but find them beautiful. I know the wood is cracked around one of the knots, but I decided to leave that part instead of sawing it out.

plus, the cube angles are so not 90°. but cutting 45mm thick wood with a handsaw is harder than I had imagined (and much harder than cutting through 15mm thick wood, like I did for the stamps).

basically, I just love the process; love how this very rough looking wood gets turned into neat little cubes. sawing, sanding, polishing.
the next part will consist in painting numbers onto one of their six sides. then smear on some matte varnish. because matte rocks.

ps. I initally put this vintage ten francs coin to show how big the cubes actually are: 45 x 45mm; and then fell in love with it.