This is a video of wood expert and Youtuber justinthetrees (who looks a lot like Ted Lasso) tasting seven different breads, each one made with sawdust from a particular tree (cherry, cedar, oak, hickory, black walnut, pine, plus one with no sawdust). He’s then tasked with guessing which tree the

This is a video of Youtuber How To Make Everything constructing the sawmill detailed in Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebook in 1478, using only tools and methods that existed back then (read: no power tools, makes his own nails). He does use a water pump to replicate a river though to

This is a video of a carpenter demonstrating his nailing skills while constructing a large triangular wooden frame. He sets and then pounds each nail in with a single strike, never missing a beat. If that had been me, most of the nails would be bent, all my fingernails would

Wormholes: they’re important to be able to identify if you want to catch nightcrawlers so you can go fishing. “Different kind of wormhole.” I knew that. I am an expert on space, after all. This is a video of skilled woodworker Olivier Gomis constructing a wormhole coffee table out of

Marble machines: I’ve been making them since my age was in the low single digits. Granted those were all made out of children’s wooden blocks and the marble usually got stuck somewhere I couldn’t see, but I consider myself an expert on the subject nonetheless. This is a very impressive

This is a video of Nick Offerman playing ‘Smell That Wood’ with Amy Poehler to promote Season 3 of NBC’s ‘Making It’, in which woodworkers compete in various challenges to prove who’s the goodest with the woodest. In the video, Nick is tasked with identifying different woods based on their

This is a rare, closeup video of a beaver *snicker* chewing through a tree *stops laughing* to use as part of its dam. So, if you were wondering how beavers chew through trees, this is it. I think it has something to do with their teeth. Or maybe it’s their

These are a couple videos of Master S. Kamaraj of Vajram Warriors (a program that teaches Indian martial arts, blowgun, gymnastics, and basic self defense to youths) demonstrating his axe inspired boomerangs. The first video is of a traditional single headed axe, but the second is a double-headed axe. Obviously,