I made these traditional winding sticks as way to use up scrap lumber and build some hand tool woodworking skills. I had some walnut left over from another project and some holly pen blanks for inlays that contrast the dark wood and make reading the sticks easy. These are great hand tools for reading twist in rough lumber using traditional woodworking techniques or just flattening one side of a board by hand that's too wide for your jointer. Flattening my roubo style work bench will be the first task for these tools