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Glow-in-the-dark patterns burned into electrocuted wood
Imgur user PapJ06 created these interesting Lichtenberg figures by electrocuting wood blocks with a modified microwave transformer, then applying glowing powder and resin. (more…)
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Beautiful hand-cranked kinetic spiral sculpture
This fantastic sculpture by Clayton Boyer will delight, amaze, hypnotize, and/or induce motion sickness. He's posted the plans for sale and you can see how others have interpreted his basic design in...
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HOWTO: Decorate wood with glow-in-the-dark Lichtenberg figures
YouTuber thepoultrypeople creates very crafty items like vape pen holders, with the added twist of burning Lichtenberg figures into them with electricity, then pouring in glow-in the dark pigments....
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Make your own Secret Wood Rings with these DIY tips
Secret Wood Rings are pretty cool-looking, so Peter Brown decided to experiment with making his own using some resin and hand-splintered wood. Not bad for the first try! (more…)
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Handmade wooden sunglasses
Brazil-based artisan Guilherme Casagrande makes handcrafted wooden sunglasses from reused skateboard decks. (more…)
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Strange wooden drawstring boxes
These strange wooden boxes by Paolo del Toro have whimsical designs that open at the mouths to reveal a secret compartment. Just loosen the drawstring and add whatever you'd like. (more…)
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Beautiful wood and bead wall and ceiling ornament
This modular piece of art would be cool with the intricate woodcarving alone, but the meticulously placed beads in the style of indigenous Camentsá artists from Colombia take it to the next level. (more…)
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Artisans revive the polissoir, a nearly-forgotten woodworking tool
André Roubo's series on carpentry called L'Art du Menuisier mentions a polissior, a small device made of broom straw for polishing wood. In the two centuries since Roubo's book, the device had faded...
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The strange appeal of Fibonacci spiral shaving
Is there a visual equivalent to the audio tingles people report in ASMR? Because I get a special kinda o' feeling deep down inside whenever I watch videos like woodworker Paul Seller's gorgeous...
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Watch this woodworker hand-turn a bowl for a floating magnetic base
Kyle Tóth makes a lot of gorgeous pieces on his lathe as experiments, like this small floating bowl. (more…)
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Wood joinery taken to the next level
Dorian Bracht's supremely satisfying videos of crafting exotic wood joints from Japanese and European traditions are both inspiring and envy-inducing. (more…)
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Watch a mesmerizing stop-motion video using wood grain
"WoodSwimmer" is a single from Bedtimes with a remarkable video by Brett Foxwell. In it, Foxwell laboriously sanded and sliced thin pieces of wood from large logs to create hypnotic patterns from the...
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Guy gets super-high on ayahuasca, gets cosmic woodworking instructions
Chris Isner was a regular guy until an ayahuasca trip gave him clear instructions on creating a trippy style of bas relief wood sculptures. (more…)
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Relaxing video of a high-end luxury car wood shop
The good folks at YouCar took a tour of a wood shop that makes dashboard panels for Bentleys, and it's a real pleasure to watch such fine work being produced. (more…)
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Watch how Willie Nelson's half-century-old guitar gets repaired
Master luthier Mark Erlewine takes us through the fascinating process of repairing Trigger, the same guitar Willie Nelson has played for nearly 50 years. (more…)
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This Michigan-shaped Adirondack chair dispenses cold beverage cans
Woodworker Matt Thompson has been making Adirondack chairs in the shape of Michigan, the lower peninsula at least, for a few years. Recently, he added the state's upper peninsula to the chair's...
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Watch this experiment on mice squeezing through tiny holes
Woodworker Matthias Wandel has mice in his workshop, and he wanted to see how small a hole mice could crawl through. But after setting up his ingenious little test, a challenger appears: the wily...
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Watch a craftsman turn wood and colored pencils into a floating cup carving
Bobby Duke makes all kinds of cool woodworking projects in his inimitable video style. This floating cup pencil carving is especially impressive. (more…)
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Watch a laser cut this bowl from one thin sheet of wood
It's pretty cool to watch a 3-millimeter thick sheet of birch transform into a bowl that's laser cut as one long wooden spiral. (more…)
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A mechanical, wooden Turing machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8izCKHiF0 Richard J. Ridel's all-wooden, mechanical Turing machine uses the smallest set of data elements capable of computing any calculation: 0, 1 and blank; it was...
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