Walnut components and templates

The authored scene, preserved unchanged: a turned wooden hourglass whose sand drains through a pinched neck, glides along the desk and tips end over end on its own rim.

A fifty-one key board in a dark walnut sandwich case on a thin honey-oak top, with a machined plate and sculpted PBT caps. It types LOADING one key at a time — each press an eighth of the capsule, a commit light out from the return key, then a wave that runs the board clear.

A low two-button mouse on a fumed-oak board, its shell one analytic surface — a rounded-rectangle section over a superellipse plan — so the curves carry no creases. Five clicks and one scroll fill the capsule; the buttons hinge on their own seam and the cord follows the body across the wood.

A saddle-stitched leather bifold lying open on a thin mahogany board, dealing the four cards terraced in its slot out into a clear row in front of it. Every card goes straight up out of the pocket before it travels, so nothing ever passes through anything; the last one lifts and turns to catch the light.