MetaFilter posts tagged with wood and woodworking

"The cat... quickly got bored of it and meowed to be let out."

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:00 -0800

From Matthias Wandel, the inventor of the wooden marble calculator and the non-wooden eyeballing game, now comes the wooden Jenga pistol and its successor, as well as the wooden geodesic cat storage device and wooden wasp sucker.

Gentlemen, We Have Wood

DU — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:51:04 -0800

Johnna Klukas makes science fiction wood carvings, sculpture and furniture. She has also detailed her techniques (with more "coming soon").

Robert A. Talbot's Wooden Guns

Fiasco da Gama — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:06:10 -0800

Robert A. Talbot makes guns out of wood.

wood+marbles=six bits

boo_radley — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:36:19 -0800

Matthias Wandel's astounding wooding calculatory enigma. A woodworker turns his talents to binary mathematics via a cunning series of cats-eyes, clinkers and rounders. Plus many other marbled wonders. [this might be marbles]

Three trees, one stool.

Mitheral — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:01:15 -0800

Grow your own. Furniture that is. Christopher Cattle has pictures and basic instructions on growing a three legged stool. Similiar previously here, here, and here.

Sexy Furniture

OpinioNate — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:21:56 -0800

Sexy Furniture. "The shape of a woman, her organic architecture, combined with my passion for wood inspired me to sculpt these sexy designs." Passion for wood, indeed. NSFW.

Tailed apprentices don't drink beer

Mitheral — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:44:38 -0800

Old Wood Working Machines. Covering only North American manufactures, the OWWM website (referred to as the mothership) has 1160 scans of manuals, flyers, catalogs, and sales literature dating back over 100 years. The FAQ is extensive and has exploded spinning off many pertinent articles. OWWM also has almost 2200 user submitted, machinery profiles showing machines as found and/or restored. One of the highlights is a write up on what appears to be the very first (PDF) Delta Unisaw which was built before WWII and aside from mostly cosmetic changes is still built today.