I’ve entered this No. 4 “shorebird” infill – so-called because the shape of the crown reminds me of the heads and bills of the shorebirds that my wife and I see on our Sunday afternoons on the beach in Shell Beach, CA, half an hour away from our home in Santa Maria – in the “Design in Wood” competition at the San Diego County Fair in Delmar, on display through the month of June.

Here are the details:

Honduran rosewood infill.

A-2 iron, 1/4 inch thick, pitched at 45 degrees.

Mild steel sides dovetailed and pinned to O-1 tool steel base, all 1/4 inch thick.

Base 9×2 1/2 inches; overall length approximately 10 1/2 inches.

True cyma curve from the tip of the crown down to the point where a tangent arc curves up to touch the back of the iron; proportions of the radii of the arcs in the cyma curve mimic those of a golden rectangle.

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