Most of today was spent cleaning my room, which is mess of objects and wood shavings. I did, however, do some whittling by cutting down a limb to wand-size. The sickly-sweet fruity smell should have been my first clue that this might not have been a good limb to use. No, I had to get the wood all in my saw and cut two pieces of bark off before I realized that I was dealing with a soft wood filled with sap and getting it on my knife.
Great. <_<
After some scrubbing and giving up for now on trying to clean the saw, I threw the branch out. That was depressing because it looked perfect for a wand. Well, that was my firsthand experience with trying to work with soft woods. Never, ever again...
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