This is a video of artist Bobby Duke carving a pencil into a snake wrapped around its graphite center, slithering towards a mouse atop the eraser. The result is pretty impressive. Not to brag or anything, but I’ve done a little bit of pencil carving myself. Unfortunately, by the time
This is a video following artist Black McFarland of BM Sculptures as he creates an exotic wood and epoxy whale sculpture commission for an event space. He really delivers, and any event space would be lucky to have such a fine piece of art on display. It looks like a
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
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
Because it’s taco Tuesday, this is a video of woodworker Peter Brown constructing a margarita glass (looks more like a goblet of firewater to me) entirely out of Himalayan rock salt, using a lathe to turn and carve the three separate pieces of the glass, then gluing them all together.
Because nothing says Australia quite like kangaroos and boomerangs, this is a video of the two combined into a kangaroo shaped boomerang crafted by Redditor Ravi from Texas (wait, what?). Damn, that thing flies NICE. Did you know there are left-handed and right-handed boomerangs? I did not, which might explain
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