Awesome Brass

An elegant version of a classic design, Garrett Wade’s capsule tool has a solid brass case, and is filled with five useful tools, including slotted and phillips drivers, a pull-hook knife, drill bit, and a corkscrew. Simply unscrew the halves, slide in the tool, and tighten.

Please forgive us for posting videos with Flight of the Bumblebee three times in the same week, but this clip that shows the process of crafting a Vincent Bach trumpet mouthpiece from a brass rod was too captivating to pass up.

Each of Craighill’s metal desk puzzles does double duty as a pint-sized work of art and a brain-teaser. The six-piece puzzle measures 3″ x 3″ x 3″, weighs about a pound, and is milled from solid cartridge brass in Massachusetts.

A collection of beautiful, functional wood notebooks crafted from real walnut. Each double-coil brass-bound book lays flat for easy writing, and comes with plain, ruled or dot-grid bleed-resistant paper. Available in 8″ x 5.75″ and 10″ x 7.75″ sizes.

Members of the Canadian Brass let their fingers go flying at breakneck speeds in this classic footage from one of their performances of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s high-speed orchestral interlude. A more recent incarnation of the group shows off their chops here.

These precision-machined dice are cut from solid hunks of brass. The metal gives them great weight and substance, and will make your Monopoly set look just that much more classy. Brass wheelbarrow, shoe and top hat not included.

The talented musicians of UK ensemble Vigilante Brass perform an awesome cover Muse’s epic Knights of Cydonia. Now we want to see a college marching band do the same thing at half-time this Sunday.

Elevating the simple city bike into a work of art, Van Heesh Design’s steel frame bicycle is plated with brass, providing it with an elegant, shiny, and rust-resistant finish. Also made in copper and zinc.