Making Your Own Branding Irons
It’s easier than you think to create your own custom branding irons.
woodburning
Inspired Writing: Gorgeous Woodburned Pencils
Transform the humble pencil into a thing of beauty! Make gorgeous woodburned pencils with your own creative custom patterns and fun DIY designs. I love how the right tool in the right hands can transform an ordinary object—in this case, a natural wood pencil—into an extraordinary piece of handmade art! Get inspired to make your […]
How-To: Darth Vader Stove
Have you been looking for an outdoor stove, but can’t find one that’s ominous enough?
Wood Burned Portraits of U.S. Presidents
Designer and Illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky undertook the formidable task of memorializing all 44 U.S. presidents in whimsically wood burned portrait form.
How-To: Build Nob Yoshigahara’s “Dualock” cross puzzle
I built one of these years ago from plans I saw in Slocum and Botterman’s New Book of Puzzles, and still delight in playing with it, so I was pleased as–geez, I can’t say “pleased as punch” and still respect myself in the morning, so I’ll just leave it at “really pleased”–to see this new tutorial from Instructables user Phil B about how it’s done. From the outside, the puzzle is deceptively simple: You can guess from Phil’s description that you’ve got to spin it, to win it, but there’s a devious twist. The book I saw it in had a picture of a clear plastic version that showed off how the mechanism worked, but that makes it rather too easy to figure out; the best way to appreciate Yoshigahara’s design is to build one for yourself, then give it to somebody else to puzzle over.
Woods of the world indexed as “library” of “books”
I’ve been interested in collecting woods for a long time. The International Wood Collectors Society is the premier collectors organization, and they promulgate a “standard sample block” measuring 6″ x 3″ x 1/2″. The smaller IWCS-size samples are much cheaper than these wooden “books” offered by Worlds Wood Library, but there’s no denying the elegance of this ideas as a display. The common name is cut into the book’s “spine,” and the latin binomial into its “cover.”
IR laser wood-burning pen
Instructables user ramanff mounted a fiber-optic coupled 1W IR laser diode in a pen body to create this cool wood-burning tool.
