D is for...Dover

 In the small town of Dover, Ohio there is a museum.  The Ernest Warther Museum and Gardens.  I have good memories of visiting here as a child and in the fall of 2021, they had a tree that they were planning to take down.  However when the final decision was made, Ernest Warther's grandson, Dan, ended up carving it into what they call "The Sevens".  

Ernest Warther had become known as the World's Master Carver for his many carvings of steam engines that he did, but he was also known for carving pliers from one piece of wood with ten cuts.  He had also learned how to do more cuts to make multiple interlocking pliers, the largest of which was series of 511 interlocking pliers that opens into a tree and took around 31, 000 cuts to a single piece of wood to make.  

"The Sevens" is a series of seven pliers - three of which are relief cut and four of which open up.  I enjoyed a trip down to watch and sketch while he was working on carving the last of the opening pliers.