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Cherry Wood Nixie Clock

Cherry Wood Nixie Clock
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California artist J A Woodwork handcrafts fantastic desktop timepieces from uniquely charactered woods. Our personal favorite is Clock #017, which is made from a chunk of insect-bored cherry wood, with its six Nixie gas tubes mounted horizontally.

Concrete Pourover Coffee Maker

Concrete Pourover Coffee Maker
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Ideal for coffee purists, SmartConcrete’s wonderfully deconstructed coffee maker is made from copper tube with a concrete base. Insert the glass funnel, add your filter, and start slowly pouring. A cork base keeps glassware from sliding. Handmade in Germany.

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Making a Bamboo Fishing Rod

Making a Bamboo Fishing Rod

If you thought that you could just stick a piece of fishing line on a piece of bamboo and call it a day, you’d be very wrong. Nick Taransky does it the right way, paistakingly handcrafting a proper split bamboo fly rod that we’d be truly proud to own.

The Birth of a Weapon Pt. 1

The Birth of a Weapon Pt. 1

After showing us how to make tools and build a house, John Neeman Tools presents the steps of completely handcrafting a traditional English longbow – starting from a log, and finishing with a functional weapon. Handmade bows are available for preorder from Neemanbows.com.

Kami Wooden Mug

Kami Wooden Mug
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Each of these stunning wood mugs is handmade by Japanese craftsman Takahashi Kougei. The master woodworker turns castor aralia wood down to a thickness of just 2mm. Holds 9oz, and coated in food-grade urethane. Needless to say, it’s hand-wash only.

Recycled Skateboard Pencil Holder

Recycled Skateboard Pencil Holder
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Jeff Gray of Scene3Designs makes all sorts of nifty items by stacking, sanding, and laminating layers of cutoff wood from a skateboard maker. One of our faves is this pencil holder. We’d love to see him make a version that holds tools too.

Capital Coin Rings

Capital Coin Rings
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Wonderful rings handcrafted using antique coins from the U.S. Civil War era. Each one is unique and made from 90% silver / 10% copper. Perfect from history buffs, coin collectors, or anyone who appreciates fine craftwork. Available in men’s and women’s sizes.

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Elastic Precision Rubber Band Guns

Elastic Precision Rubber Band Guns

Elastic Precision offers handmade rubber band guns based on real firearms. The Walther PPK can be loaded with up to 5 rubber bands, the Model 1911 with up to 6 rubber bands and the MP5 with up to 24 rubber bands.

Cycling Ride Pouch

Cycling Ride Pouch
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The perfect carry for cyclists, WaterField’s handmade leather and nylon pouch holds protects your phone in a visible pouch, and offers space for bike tools and other small accessories, and includes a mini wallet for cash, keys and ID.

Vansh Poseidon Pewter Flask

Vansh Poseidon Pewter Flask
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A very special, very limited-edition flask, handcrafted in England by the Sheffield Pewter Craft Company for Vansh. Each one features a dramatic image of the Greek god of the sea set into its face. Holds 4oz, forged from 100% rustproof pewter and acid washed for effect.

Deal: Slim Timber Wood Wallet

Deal: Slim Timber Wood Wallet
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A unique take on the minimal wallet, each Slim Timber wallet is handcrafted from walnut or rosewood and leather, with an elastic strap that provides quick access to cards. Holds up to 8 credit cards, and also works as a business card holder. Save 14% in The Awesomer Shop.

Artisan Dice

Artisan Dice
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The workshop of Artisan Dice creates incredible limited-run dice in wood, metal, bone, stone, steel, acrylic, Teflon, carbon fiber and more. They even make dice from old whiskey barrels. Check out their YouTube channel to learn more about how they’re made.

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justAjar Letterpress Posters

justAjar Letterpress Posters
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Oh, how we love the nostalgic, quirky goodness of Sara and Bobby Rosenstock’s letterpress collection. Handmade on their Vandercook press, with woodcut illustrations and great color combinations, it doesn’t even matter if we missed the show – we still feel connected.

The Golden Apple

The Golden Apple

Artist and computer builder Love Hultén has outdone himself with his latest build, a 100% scale accurate Macintosh 128k replica, handcrafted from wood. Inside, it sports a Mac Mini and a modern LCD screen, making it both useful and a thing of beauty.

Printed Leather Luggage Tags

Printed Leather Luggage Tags
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It’ll be a lot easier to identify your bag on the carousel with one of these handsome handcut leather luggage tags from Porter & Hazel. Choose from a variety of sentiments offered, or customize one with a fave quote or personal info.

Folded Lighting Collection

Folded Lighting Collection
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Tel Aviv-based artist Ariel Zuckerman uses paper origami techniques to create his striking lighting series; he stretches, folds and twists two dimensional sheets for the unexpected result, which looks great whether illuminated or not.

Crafted (Trailer)

Crafted (Trailer)

“Where things come from matter.” Morgan Spurlock’s short documentary features five artisans: a seventh generation potter, two chefs and two knife makers. Crafted looks at their fears, failures, passion and achievements.

Dominator Leather Messenger Bags

Dominator Leather Messenger Bags
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Each of Dominator’s handmade leather bags is embellished with dramatic custom prints made by pyrogravure – the art of delicately burning the material to create a tattoo-like image. Also available as laptop sleeves and backpacks.

Building a Bamboo Eiffel Tower

Building a Bamboo Eiffel Tower

Once you get past the silly computer voiceovers, you’ll be treated to the construction of an incredibly detailed scale model of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower, built from 2779 sticks of bamboo by artist Srinivas Thatipally. Feeling ambitious now?

Bob’s Burgers Nesting Dolls

Bob’s Burgers Nesting Dolls
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Bad Girl Shenanigans’ handpainted Belcher family nesting dolls are perfect for fans of the quirky Fox animated show. We can almost hear Linda shouting All-riiight!” The only thing better would be if Louise’s bunny ears actually stuck out.

Knit Credit Cards

Knit Credit Cards

Paris-based artist Dimitri Tsykalov has a very cool collection of knit credit card art. When displayed in a gallery, the still-attached balls of yarn are placed on the floor to mimic the unraveling of financial markets around the globe.

Bad Tags

Bad Tags
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For those beloved TA readers who are animal owners and have sarcastic senses of humor, may we present Bad Tags – pet tags that are quite the opposite of cute. Available in a variety of politically incorrect and amusing sayings.

Making a Watch

Making a Watch

German watchmaker NOMOS Glashütte lets us get up close and personal with the process behind the creation of their intricate and luxurious mechanical timepieces, which are still largely made by hand.

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