You aren’t. This chap, however, is.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFEY–Gp1D8[/video]

Love that. I still can’t fully believe it.

😀

Whaaaaat? Skillz right there.

Brilliant

Neato.

Very good!

This guy is good, he must be, he still has all his fingers!

Very good, I imagine I’d end up with 10cuts to my finger & lots very bloody stained bits of tinder 😳

Tried making some………..they wooden’t work.

IGMC

That’s witchcraft.

My Dad does stuff like that 🙂

Think that’s good? Take a look at what he did with one block of wood!

A Tree of 511 Interconnected Pliers Carved from a Single Block of Wood by Ernest Warther

Go on then, ill nibble – how do the two sides of the pliers stay together?

One bit is through a hole in the other bit, but both sides of that bit are wider than the hole, so it can’t come out.

“Don’t try this at home” comes to mind.

plyphon – Member
Go on then, ill nibble – how do the two sides of the pliers stay together?

It’s a box-joint rather than a slip-joint, which requires a pivot to hold the two halves together.

Take a look at what he did with one block of wood!

Hells bollocks! That’s a bit special.

woot!?

Amazing!

Amazing, both the pliers and the fact he has 10 fingers

Proper grandpa ‘magic’….

Another pointless but satisfying thing to try to remember when I have grand kids! ‘Cos that’ll the be the first time I have enough spare time to try

That’s on the This Is Colossal website.
If you fancy something else a bit special then have a look on that website at the old Japanese guy making one of the wooden dolls on a lathe.
I was transfixed by it.

Just lost a good while on thisiscolossal.com. Some great stuff – check the bloke making glass horses…

One of those other videos has answered a question that’s bugged me for years. Can you carve a wooden chain? Yes you can.

Loved that.

My dad once showed me how to whittle a whistle.

Amazing skills.

Anyone interested in woodworking should also check out Paul Sellers.
http://youtu.be/Zuybp4y5uTA

Like the gentleman above he has a calm and confident manner that you get with a lifetime’s experience, and makes you think “I could give that a go”
I’m in the process of building his workbench now and I’m totally addicted to his videos and blog.

I cringed every time he made a cut, fingers and thumbs in front of the blade, which is why I’ll never be able to carve wood
If I did I wouldn’t have fingers and thumbs, same result really 🙂
Some skillz there

He won’t cut his fingers even when working towrds them because he’s applying the forces in a very controlled way using limited movements.

my thumbs started bleeding just watching that!

How useful are pliers made from wood that soft? 😉

petefromearth – Member

I’m in the process of building his workbench

Link for this…?

EDIT: Good old google