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Brass Sketchbook Stencils

Brass Sketchbook Stencils
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Jayden’s Apple makes nifty brass stencils that are perfect for sketch notebooks. The designs include arrows, flourishes, lettering, plants, speech bubbles, and more. The Journal Essential stencil kit includes elements for drawing checklists, calendars, circles, and grids.

Mini Arcade & Pinball Machines

Mini Arcade & Pinball Machines
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33 Games creates teensy (non-functional) replicas of classic arcade cabinets and pinball machines. They’re extremely detailed, down to the mini joysticks and on-screen graphics. They’re built to 1/12th scale, and measure about 6″ tall. They even make a change machine.

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Glowing City Coffee Tables

Glowing City Coffee Tables
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NEWwooDESIGN creates these unique tables by engraving detailed maps of cities into oak wood. Each table has three layers representing streets, buildings, and water, and is coated with a resin that glows in the dark. Choose from several European cities, as well as NYC.

Carved Wood Millennium Falcons

Carved Wood Millennium Falcons
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Love My Custom Wood handcarves these impressively intricate models of Han and Chewie’s iconic ride using a big hunk of white cedar wood. The large version measures 32.5″ x 21.5″, but there’s a smaller version if you don’t have the space or galactic credits to spare.

Cassette Tape Movie Posters

Cassette Tape Movie Posters
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Jordan Bolton Design makes movie and TV show posters that look like stacks of cassette tapes. The title and cast are on the cassette tapes’ spines, each with a different retro design. The typography definitely feels dated and clunky, but appropriate in this context.

Modded CRKT Woods Tomahawks

Modded CRKT Woods Tomahawks
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Tennessee Forged starts out with CRKT Woods tomahawks, then dresses them up with a new handle treatment, copper rivets, a leather neck guard, custom filework on the head, and a rust preventive oxide coating. Choose from axe/spike, axe/hammer, or axe only variants.

3D Illusion Animal Lamps

3D Illusion Animal Lamps
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Artist Cyril Bagnost presents a cool take on 3D acrylic illusion lamps, with whimsical low-poly designs cut precisely to the outline of the animal. The bulldog and panther are pretty sweet, but we also dig his Jeff Koons-inspired balloon dog. Lamps are powered via USB.

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Magnum Mini Crossbow

Magnum Mini Crossbow
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RinkyDink3D’s tiny 3D-printed crossbow is designed to shoot matchsticks 50 feet or more. It’s got built-in storage for up to 10 extra projectiles, and features a locking mechanism with a thumb release trigger. (Not recommended for kids under 16 years old)

Forged Iron Bottle Opener

Forged Iron Bottle Opener
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Massachusetts blacksmith shop Hammer on Steel hand-forges each of these bottle openers from iron and steel. They make a perfect groomsmen’s gift, and can be custom monogrammed with the recipient’s initials at no extra cost.

BespOak Tree Bookshelves

BespOak Tree Bookshelves
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UK-based interior decor shop BespOak handmakes beautiful and unusual wall-mounted bookshelves designed to look like the branch structure of trees. Each one is inspired by the shape of a specific type of tree. Also available as standalone branches without trunks.

Retro VHS Night Lights

Retro VHS Night Lights
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Etsy store NancysJars makes LED night lights out of old VHS tapes. You can customize the LEDs and the picture. The latter doesn’t have to be from a movie, but if it is the shop will do its best to use a tape of that movie to make the night light. It’s powered by AAA batteries.

Wallcade Classic Arcade Machine

Wallcade Classic Arcade Machine
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Etsy store BasementArcades makes the Wallcade Classic, a wall-mounted arcade machine. It protrudes only 16″ from the wall and weighs only 45 lb. It has a 2-player setup, a 22″ LCD display, customizable cabinet graphics, and a link to 3300 curated games you can install.

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Mini Drafting Table Kit

Mini Drafting Table Kit
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Artist Thomas Houha makes laser-cut wood and mat board models of objects ranging from spaceships to bridges. One of our faves is this 4″ x 5″ model of a relic of traditional design – a wooden drafting table complete with a teensy T-square and other drafting tools.

Pixelated Chess Set

Pixelated Chess Set
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Induku Design’s nifty laser-cut chess set has the look of chunky old-school video game pixels. The board folds up for travel, and has storage spaces inside. Each piece has a laser-engraved shading pattern on it, and nice jaggy edges. No FSAA or TXAA here.

Overly-complex Light Switch Plates

Overly-complex Light Switch Plates
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Transform your ordinary toggle light switches into interactive works of art with these whimsical wood light switch plates from Green Tree Jewelry. Each one adds an unnecessarily complex gear mechanism to make turning your lights on or off more entertaining.

Bee Hotel

Bee Hotel
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Etsy shop Dilnahammer makes ready-to-mount wooden homes for birds and other animals. One of the shop’s most popular products are honeycomb cell “hotels” for bees, ladybugs and other small insects. They come in different combinations and colors.

Bleeding Hand Candle

Bleeding Hand Candle
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Creepy Candles‘ signature product is a realistic and life-sized hand-shaped candle. As it burns, the blood red wax inside melts and reveals a metal skeleton hand.  Thankfully, you don’t have to worry about smelling burnt flesh, because the candle has a pleasant scent.

3D Printed Destiny Ghost Replicas

3D Printed Destiny Ghost Replicas
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“You’d be surprised how little I understand what you’re thinking.” Etsy shop 3DDuplicator makes 3D printed replicas of the Ghosts from Destiny. There are a variety of shells available, including a Pokémon-themed one. The replicas each have a semi-poseable and backlit eye.

Personalized Monopoly Board Game

Personalized Monopoly Board Game
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Etsy shop CustomMadeKitsch makes personalized Monopoly board games. They’ll make practically everything – the locations, the game pieces, the board, the box – to your specifications. You can also order only a custom box or game pieces.

Atom LED Wood Lamp

Atom LED Wood Lamp
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Created by Ukraine designers The Elray, this sweet ambient desk lamp is crafted from interlocking circles cut from plywood, with energy efficient LED light strips set along the interior loops. Measures appx 9.8″ x 9″, and available in brown or black finishes.

PlastCraft Fallout 4 Gauss Rifle

PlastCraft Fallout 4 Gauss Rifle

Etsy store PlastCraft makes video game-inspired collectibles and props. Its pièce de résistance at the moment is this badass gauss rifle replica inspired by Fallout 4‘s weaponry. It’s filled with blue LEDs and has nixie tubes that indicate the battery’s charge.

GamerGram Metallic Prints

GamerGram Metallic Prints

Etsy store GamerGram makes metallic prints that are so shiny you have to see how the light hits them to fully appreciate their beauty. Right now they’re focused on video game art and geeky fan-submitted artwork, but they’re looking for artists to diversify their prints.

Juan Hidalgo Geeky Wedding Rings

Juan Hidalgo Geeky Wedding Rings
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Etsy artist Juan Hidalgo uses precious materials like gold, diamond and emerald to make wedding rings inspired by geeky franchises, like this awesome pair based on R2-D2 and C-3PO. They also have Stargate, Transformers, Pokémon and The Legend of Zelda rings.

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