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
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
This is a video of Buckeye (Ohioan) woodworker Duke Harmon constructing a bar for squirrels (the Nutty Bar), which features seven different varieties of nuts on tap. At the end of the video is also some footage of squirrels visiting the bar. Man, what I wouldn’t give to be a
This is a video of woodturner Matt Jordan creating a beautiful wooden coffee mug (with metallic epoxy inlay) from the trunk of a small apple tree. You know, I think I might actually buy the equipment and get into woodturning. It really is something I think I could see myself