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,
In I had no idea what my kitchen was missing until I saw it news, this is a Totoro pepper grinder crafted by master woodworker Acangelo Ambrosi using ash and bog oak (bog oak being any species of oak that happens to have been preserved in a bog for an
In news that shouldn’t surprise anybody who values their crotch, the ancient art of ‘iron crotch’ kung fu is dying as more and more kung fu practitioners decide they don’t want to repeatedly get battering-rammed in the junk. Pfft, some warriors they are! Some more info while I punch myself
Note: Obviously this isn’t the whole stack, keep going for a full photo, complete with tiny plastic chair on top. Dare to dream, folks, dare to dream. This is a shot of the aftermath of Jenga stacker Madlad trying hard and believing in himself at such max levels he was
This is a video of Youtuber Once Upon A Workbench building a playhouse for his children that’s a tiny version of the house you can buy in Hateno Village in The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. He did a fantastic job, not just with the house, but with