Résumé
Wood combines important uses in crafts and human-wood relations, with very high bio-diversity and physical complexity. Yet wood science and craftsmanship are seldom connected. I argue for decompartmentalising these forms of wood knowledge, and propose methodologies and questions transversal to wood and crafts: temporalities; functionality and aesthetics; ecology; and matters and meanings. This is illustrated by two recent research. One focuses on the different dimensions of time, in wood physics, forestry, and crafts. It highlights wood as a recorder of time -probably more than any other material -and temporalities as essence of craft work and craftsmanship. Another explores the four questions above through guitar-makers' woods. It exemplifies the imbrication of functionality and aesthetics in craftspersons' relation with wood, and topical issues of diversification and sustainability.