This has wooden jaws made from large hardwood blocks and is operated by turning a pair of metal spindles, each with a wooden handle.

The tuyère is a hardwood block in a pyramid shape with a 1in hole drilled in its middle to accept the blow pipe.

The pump's signifying feature is the hardwood block that acts as a bearing and its lever mechanism.

Relief engravings are most commonly made by carving into fine-grained hardwood blocks.

The four-year-old was building a tower with hardwood blocks, which he would then tip over, to the general amusement of the room.

You can just go out in the woods and hold conversations with the birds, simply by scratching the striker on the hardwood block in different ways.

Two more Japanese had come forward, both masked, as their colleagues were, dragging a large hardwood block, painted shiny red.

Then, without warning, the Japanese youth had let out a sharp cry, whipped back the samurai sword, and flashed it down toward the red hardwood block.

He had looked down to see that the Japanese youth had somehow managed to stop the blade's descent exactly an inch above the hardwood block.

For curved surfaces, you will have to shape a hardwood block to match the contours of the metal piece.