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Wood Beer Bottle Caddy

Wood Beer Bottle Caddy
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This rustic wood carrying case is great for toting beer bottles and cans when visiting friends. It carries up to six bottles and has a removable divider for versatility. It has a metal handle and a sturdy bottle opener on one end.

Splitting Wood with a Hydraulic Press

Splitting Wood with a Hydraulic Press

There are much easier ways to split a log than with a 150-ton hydraulic press, but we’re not sure there’s any more entertaining method. The guys from the Hydraulic Press Channel start out trying to cut through their wooden target with knives, then bring their A-game with a custom tool made from four axes assembled into an “X” shape.

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Wooden Radial Engine

Wooden Radial Engine

Ian Jimmerson shows off a truly impressive wooden model he built that demonstrates the inner workings of a 9-cylinder radial engine, like the ones used on some older airplanes. It’s amazing how stable it is as it gets up to speed. Check out his in-depth explainer videos here and here.

Ultimate Headphone Station

Ultimate Headphone Station
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Audio enthusiasts, Beveled Edge Studios handcrafts this elegant solid wood stand for headphones and personal listening gear. It can hold two pairs of over-the-ear headphones and has six small shelves for DACs, amps, and other small devices. They can also customize the unit to fit your audio equipment’s exact dimensions.

Wood Pallet Arcade Machine

Wood Pallet Arcade Machine

Arcade cabinets are usually made from plywood or particle board. For his entry into DainerMade’s Pallet Challenge, Wooden It Be Grand decided to make an arcade machine. He built its panels by gluing the wood planks side by side, then planed and sanded them even. It’s one of the coolest arcade machines we’ve seen.

Dozen Puzzle Gift Set

Dozen Puzzle Gift Set
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Kubiya Games sells this bundle of 12 wooden puzzles, packing in months of entertainment and challenge for kids and adults alike. Its top tray holds the completed puzzles, while the bottom offers storage for the pieces if you get stuck along the way. Its puzzles range in difficulty level from medium to very hard.

ROKR Wooden Pinball Machine

ROKR Wooden Pinball Machine

Robotime’s wood kit gives you everything you need to build your own working mini-pinball machine. Its 482 pieces come together to form a circus-themed machine with a plunger, bumpers, and flippers. The playfield and backbox have built-in lighting, and it also plays sounds. Save $40 for a limited time with code PINBALL40.

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Making Traditional Japanese Wood Masks

Making Traditional Japanese Wood Masks

Masks have been part of Japanese culture for more than a thousand years. Process X takes us inside, Womokage, a small company that makes these detailed masks the traditional way. Skilled artisans use chisels to carve facial features from a solid block of wood, then hand-apply a coating and paint pigments to bring out details.

Lambda Standing Desks

Lambda Standing Desks
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The health benefits of standing at your desk are well known. So get up off of your butt and stand at a Lambda Standing Desk. Its angled birchwood pieces assemble without hardware, and its work surface offers four adjustable heights. Plus, built-in cable management keeps things tidy. Available in 24″, 31″, and 47″ widths.

The Dungeon Display

The Dungeon Display
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Upgrade your tabletop gaming with this digital display board from Crafty Kobolds. It features a 43″ Samsung 4K display wrapped in a handmade wooden frame and protected by clear plexiglass. Load it up with digital maps and animations, which can be easily found online. Choose from black walnut, oak, or cherry wood.

Making The Most Complicated Cutting Board

Making The Most Complicated Cutting Board

Broinwood is known for making intricate cutting boards with a combination of technology and craftsmanship. His most complex design yet features more than 1700 elements. His process involves CNC cutting the butcher block and inverted pieces, gluing and hammering them in place, then milling away the excess wood.

Wormhole Coffee Table

Wormhole Coffee Table

Olivier Gomis created this impressive piece of furniture – a table that looks like it has a wormhole that connects two points of space and time. He built the table from rough walnut planks he cut into sticks and glued into grids. He then assembled them into rough shapes, turned the rounded pieces, then assembled and finished them.

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Amador Rocking Chairs

Amador Rocking Chairs
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Masaya & Co.’s unique rockers add style and relaxation to any space. Each chair is handcrafted from sustainably sourced teak, walnut, or mahogany wood, and features a woven cord seat and back in an eye-catching pattern. Our favorites? The Mot Mot and the San Geronimo. They come fully assembled and ready to rock.

Sliced Portable Cutting Board Set

Sliced Portable Cutting Board Set
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This maple cutting board from AK Studios and Wren has a side slot and a silicone band to hold its knife in place for easy transport. The knife features a full-tang stainless steel blade, an integrated bottle opener, and a matching maple handle. Bespoke Post Club members can purchase it at a discounted price of $49.

ROKR Cruiser Motorcycle

ROKR Cruiser Motorcycle

This sweet flat-pack wood model kit from Robotime looks like a fat-cat cruiser motorcycle. The 420-piece, 10.6″ long wooden motorcycle features a working front suspension, steering, wheels that spin, and a spring-wound drive mechanism. Expect a build time of around 4 to 5 hours.

Nintendo Switch Coffee Table

Nintendo Switch Coffee Table

Backyard Resin creates bold and dramatic wood tables with inlays of colored resin, small objects, and artwork. Their Nintendo Switch coffee table is CNC-cut from walnut with colorful resin-filled Joy-Cons, and custom airbrushed artwork based Mario Kart. They also make a Game Boy table with Donkey Kong artwork.

Ugears Hexapod Explorer

Ugears Hexapod Explorer

Wood model maker Ugears was clearly inspired by robots when they engineered this mechanical marvel. Once assembled, the six-legged creature ambles along on smooth surfaces when you wind its spring. The 388-piece, flat-pack model takes about 8 hours to assemble.

E-MU Wood Series Headphones

E-MU Wood Series Headphones
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These premium over-the-ear headphones are not only notable for their sound but their looks. Neodymium drivers and bio-cellulose diaphragms provide crisp audio from 5 Hz to 45 kHz. Their outer covers are made from bamboo or teak wood, while sheepskin leather earpads provide comfort for your longest listening sessions.

Shaken Wood Dice

Shaken Wood Dice
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The reason for shaking dice before rolling them is to randomize them from their starting positions. But the guys at Atypyk Paris seem to think that shaking dice also makes their pips move around. Their nonsensical Shaken wood dice come with the dots already shaken for you. Another first-world problem solved. Or not.

Carving Chainsaw Man with a Chainsaw

Carving Chainsaw Man with a Chainsaw

Woodart Vietnam used a band saw to start his sculpture of Chainsaw Man’s Denji, but he performed the majority of rough carving a small chainsaw. He then refined the character’s details with chisels and a rotary hobby tool. We’re trying to think of other characters you could make from themselves, but we’re coming up blank.

The Base Concrete + Wood Nightstand

The Base Concrete + Wood Nightstand
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Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada’s CurlyWoods makes these distinctive and substantial nightstands with a fiberglass-reinforced concrete body, a wood base, and live-edge wood drawer with smooth drawer glides. They come in three sizes – in black walnut, cherry, maple, or white oak. Get a 10% discount when ordering two or more.

Yayoi Polka Dot Inlay Cutting Board

Yayoi Polka Dot Inlay Cutting Board
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Philadelphia-based UntitledCoDesign makes wonderful home accessories, including this unique polka dot cutting board. Each board is handmade from locally-sourced maple and inlaid with dots of various woods found in their shop. It measures 17.25″ x 7.5″ x 1.75″ and has a circular handle cutout.

NES Controller Valet Tray

NES Controller Valet Tray
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Reimagined Wood Shop has the perfect gift for the video game fan that has everything. This substantial 12″ x 5″ valet tray holds your coins, wallet, phone, keys, and more, all while looking like the classic Nintendo Entertainment System controller. Each one is CNC-carved from a block of solid lumber and comes in a variety of woods.

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