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This Table Designs Itself With A Corrosive Chemical Dance Party
There are all kinds of ways to design a table, but most of them don’t include resonant frequencies or specially-designed abrasive enzymes, much less both. Bonus Table 571 isn’t most tables though, and that’s exactly how it gets its very specific pattern.
Devoted Carpenter Spent His Whole Life Crafting Wooden Boats
Watching carpenter Andy Stewart wield chisels and mallets and planks in the service of boats will make you ache with sadness for the lost craft. But then you hear Stewart talk, and you realise that he’s not some sap that history left behind — he’s a genius.
This Numberless Calculator Requires You To Knock On Wood
There’s not a single university in the country that will let you use this wooden calculator during an exam. And it’s not because it can be used for cheating. It has more to do with the fact that instead of pressing number buttons, you have to tap out your amounts on its wooden surface, and it will in turn tap out an audible response.
Marvel At These Meticulously Manufactured Maple Marble Machines
Believe it or not, artist and wood-savant Paul Grundbacher doesn’t draw up a rough schematic or do any kind of planning before he starts building his amazing marble machines. He just dives right in, crafting the components he needs out of maple, ash and linden wood. That approach also means he spends a lot of time re-building mechanisms when they don’t quite work, but the end results don’t disappoint.
Carve Out A Place For Your Nostalgia With Custom-Made Wooden Photos
Nowadays, we take most of our photos digitally and they stay digital. Photo paper and bulky albums are dead. So if you are compelled to print you photos for some reason, you might as well try to make it interesting, like printing them as tactile wood reliefs with the Photocarver.
Wooden Bricks Finally Let You Build Authentic Lego Log Cabins
You can get Legos in all the colours of the rainbow — even solid gold bricks to really flash up your creations. But wooden pieces? Unfortunately, the Danish aren’t having any part of that; you’ll need to turn to the Japanese designers at Mokurokku for these beautiful knock-offs.
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