Awesome Wood

YouTuber 伝統工芸 青山スクエア shares this video of Noboru Honma creating Yosegi-zaiku, or traditional Japanese parquetry. It involves gluing small sticks of differently colored wood together to create geometric patterns. The resulting block is then shaved into a veneer.

A versatile and elegant folding laptop stand crafted from bamboo. It works as a flat or angled stand for elevating your computer, and doubles as a lap desk with a built-in mousing surface or as hard surface for sketching.

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.

Watch an ordinary block of wood carved into an intricate sculpture of a howling wolf by artist WieselRobot. If you’re wondering about the smaller wolf in the background, he also hand-sculpted that from clay.

Heritage Handcrafted makes handsome commemorative boxes from reclaimed whiskey barrels. Each box preserves its characteristic interior char, and has a cedar-lined cigar humidor insert, 4 shot glasses, and space for a bottle. Boxes can be personalized too.

A very special wood watch from Original Grain, made using reclaimed oak from Jim Beam bourbon barrels, accented by copper. Comes in a custom wood box, with a flask, an Italian leather band, and tools for removing links and changing bands. Limited to 500 pieces.

Duffy London’s beautiful table and bench set is made using the same techniques used to make surfboards. The result is dramatic, yet light and sturdy furniture we’d love to have in our dining room. We only wish it didn’t cost more than a new car.

Wooden peripheral maker Grovemade teamed up with industrial designer Joey Roth to create a pair of beautiful speakers. Made of either solid maple or walnut, the speakers are CNC-machined on the inside with a back-loaded horn design to increase bass and reduce distortion.

Candylab makes wooden models of cars from the ’50s and ’60s. They’re crowdfunding their latest batch of toys, which consists of a station wagon, a pair of race cars and building blocks to complement their cars.

Parsec Design Studios‘ unique, wallets are crafted from thinly cut layers of exotic woods, laminated and stitched to vegetable tanned leather. If you can’t afford one of their full size wallets, consider picking up a wooden card holder for as little as $29.

Ever wonder why if you’re gonna drop a couple of Benjamins for your fancy kicks that they’d come in a cheap cardboard box? Woodworker Kyle Toth shows us how to make a proper box for your spendy, trendy sneakers. Ironically, Kyle uses the box to hold his camera gear.

Artist Kyle Toth demonstrates the painstaking process of transforming boards of bocote and ash wood into an intricate donut-shaped sculpture. The finished work contains 2,340 individual pieces of wood, and took Kyle about 90 hours to complete.

Carpenter Matthias Wandel demonstrates the complicated process of creating links in a wooden chain from a single block of maple hardwood without using any glue. To add to the challenge, he did it almost entirely with power tools rather than hand carving.

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.

“It’s all fairly simple.” Yeah right. Woodworker Frank Howarth celebrates Star Wars Day in the best way possible – by sharing video of his painstakingly handcrafted wooden Death Star. It’s simply astounding that you can make something like this from flat pieces of wood.

Nisantari’s briefcase is absolutely stunning, crafted from real bamboo wood with rich leather accents. Inside, there are compartments for your smartphone, pens, cards, passport, chargers, and a custom foam pad that holds laptops up to 13″. Also available in mahogany.

Featuring a look that combines modern and industrial aesthetics, Hikaro’s custom designed watches use Swiss movements, covered with sapphire glass, wrapped in stainless steel and trimmed with wood. Each has an elegant stitched leather band with a stainless buckle.

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.

Remember that rudimentary mini crossbow made from popsicle sticks? YouTuber Mist8k has greatly improved upon the idea, with the result being a tiny, functional crossbow that actually looks cool too. Still, it’s not quite as awesome as this design.

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.

Designer Stelios Mousarris‘ second Inception-inspired table is much bigger than the first one, measuring 98″x 30″x 28″. Its continuous wood and steel sheet undulates to create a large crest and a tapered leg that support the glass surface.

iLoveHandles‘ coat rack has a whopping 25 hooks. But you’ll barely notice them if there’s nothing on the rack because they fold up when they’re not being used. Switchboard is made of beech wood and measures 30″x 5″x 1″.

Artis Wall are thin and lightweight planks made of wood from old barns and buildings in the US. The included adhesive strips make for easy installation. The planks are also removable and reusable and won’t damage your walls.