Tree Chop, Make Wood, USA Hand Made Nunchucks

I've always wanted to do this and here I am. Cutting down wood to be turned into wooden nunchucks. I know that sounds wild but that's what I'm doing. Cutting down a small tree, so that I can turn it into something. Being that I am eager to go from tree to object, and my client Heritage Beam and Board in Wisconsin has given me this opportunity. Of course their old barn wood route is much cooler overall, and the source of my nunchucks, the owner said I could give this a swing! So barn wood hand crafted nunchucks they created thus far are from old barn wood, this is just a small dead tree I am wacking!... So yea! This, it's the history of our country. Also, what they created - barn wood to nunchucks, likely the oldest nunchucks in america, and the only ones being hand crafted and verified by a real human! What I learned when shopping for american made nunchucks, it's just people buying things not created in america and they re-string them. Very inexpensive wood, made with a machine, and claimed to be american made. Not something I'm going to sink any of my dollars into.. So much of wood is just machine crafted, using new wood that was pumped with fertilizer, and automatically built. Not like what I'm chopping, although what I'm chopping is dead, it was fertilized. Much like the barn wood used in the creation of the nunchucks on BJJ.AC... This tree was grown by itself. It grew, it died, I found, I cut the bottom of this dead tree down. The wood is light. Much lighter than the barn wood nunchucks. What's cool is my software engineering engagement turned into building the first pair of American made nunchucks, and priced appropriately for being built in America. Not some junk you buy online, a real product, hand made in a time where automation wins.

I traveled north, visited the makers of the hand made nunchucks, Heritage Beam and Board, and learned about the entire process. The first two are finished, and beautiful. They are the heaviest nunchucks I've ever used, one of the makers has claimed the first elbow injury, and I'm sure I'm in for a fair share of clunks. I do not recommend purchasing these nunchucks without some really solid experience. They work great as wood chimes if you're feeling cheeky, or a laptop stand that is worthy of a convo in a public space. Alright back to living. Chat more soon.