On Sun­day I found myself brows­ing in the local wood­work­ing store. I know very lit­tle about wood apart from white pine. The trop­i­cal hard­woods are amaz­ing. Even a bor­ing sawn log of Cocobolo emits this gor­geous musi­cal ring when you tap on it. It’s like a marimba. The sus­tain is mag­i­cal. And it pos­sesses such a remark­able color. Too bad it was prob­a­bly 100 years old and har­vested ille­gally from a Costa Rica rainforest.

Wood is cool. Maybe it’s time to hang up my welder’s torch and learn some join­ery.