{"id":3116,"date":"2015-06-26T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T09:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:50:38","slug":"8-unlikely-things-made-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/8-unlikely-things-made-of-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Unlikely Things Made of Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wood is remarkable stuff. Before it&#8217;s cut down, it&#8217;s a living material not unlike flesh. It&#8217;s incredibly strong but at the same time it&#8217;s flexible. It can be extremely dense and hard, for example Quebracho, named for the Spanish <em>quebrar hacha<\/em>, which means <em>axe breaker<\/em>. Or incredibly soft and light like balsa wood, so insubstantial it&#8217;s used to make simple toy aeroplanes that actually fly, powered by nothing more sophisticated than a rubber band.<\/p>\n<p>We use wood to make paper, one of the human race&#8217;s most ephemeral yet game-changing materials. Wood can be carved into intricate and delicate patterns. It can be steamed, pressed and bent into unlikely shapes for unexpected uses. Without it the human race would probably not have developed the way it did, and we&#8217;ve used it to build shelters and tools since we first stood on two feet, millions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the intervening millennia we&#8217;ve discovered other handy substances like metals and plastics. But wood still stands firm at the heart of human culture and probably always will.<\/p>\n<h2>Wonderful wood still rules the roost<\/h2>\n<p>Through history and pre-history we&#8217;ve sailed vast and mysterious distances in wooden boats, worshipped trees and made forests sacred, lived in trees themselves, and we&#8217;ve built and made an extraordinary variety of useful and beautiful things from wood. We&#8217;ve even used wood to create deadly weapons of war &#8211; witness the horrific machines of war and torture created by the Romans and the Spanish Inquisition respectively.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still at it today, using wood to make a vast and often eccentric variety of useful, beautiful and highly functional objects and artworks. Here&#8217;s to wonderful wood and all the amazing things we can do with it. And here are 8 of the weirdest, most eccentric and &#8211; oddly &#8211; often wholly practical items made from it.<\/p>\n<h3>More precious than gold &#8211; It&#8217;s African art<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the fact that it&#8217;s everywhere, growing all around us, wood isn&#8217;t always a cheap material. Take Africa, famous for its huge variety of exotic hardwoods, which tribes have used since the dawn of time to create physical representations of gods, people, animals and the world around them.<\/p>\n<p>African art is highly symbolic and rich in meaning, and every tribe has its own unique style. And these days it&#8217;s extremely collectable and highly desirable, especially tribal pieces, which cost more than carvings made for and sold to the tourist industry. <!--This lovely little carved hardwood stool, for example, is from the Cameroon, carved from a single piece of wood rather than several bits stuck together and, as such, the real deal rather than a tourist item.--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3120\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"580\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3120\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tribal-art-stool.jpg\" alt=\"Tribal Art Stool\" width=\"580\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tribal-art-stool.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tribal-art-stool-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/> Tribal Art Stool[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<p>Some pieces of African art are so rare and valuable they&#8217;re museum-quality and sell for an absolute fortune. Take the infamous Senufo Female Statue, carved by an artist from the Cote d\u2019Ivoire. It sold for a monster $12 million at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York a few years ago. Which just goes to show, wood can be equally as precious or even more precious than gold, gram for gram.<\/p>\n<h3>Gottlieb Daimler&#8217;s brilliant wooden motorbike<\/h3>\n<p>In comparison, a wooden bicycle is a piece of cake. Bring automation into the equation and building a working wooden machine is a whole lot more complex. But Gottlieb Daimler \u2013 who must have been a very interesting man indeed &#8211; did exactly that way back in 1895, creating a bike made almost exclusively from wood. <!--This one, a replica, was made in Hungary and even has wooden wheels.--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3121\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3121\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/motorcycle-mnn-com.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden Motorcycle\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/motorcycle-mnn-com.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/motorcycle-mnn-com-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> Wooden Motorcycle - from mnn.com[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>The wooden Vespa \u2013 A quirky take on a design classic<\/h3>\n<p>Amazing as it might seem, Daimler&#8217;s 1895 wooden masterpiece isn&#8217;t the only wooden motorbike on the planet. Any self-respecting Mod will adore this beautiful wooden Vespa scooter, a particularly gorgeous version of the quirky, affordable, simple little Italian runabout.<\/p>\n<p>The Vespa was a world-changer. Thanks to its invention after WW2, thousands of young people who couldn&#8217;t afford a car could enjoy their very own two-wheeled transport for the first time. The Mod movement wouldn&#8217;t have been the same without it and the classic Mod movie, Quadrophenia, probably wouldn&#8217;t have existed.<\/p>\n<p><!--This wooden Vespa version was made with love, care and extraordinary craftsmanship by the Portuguese craftsman Carlos Alberto, and even the package tray and seat are made from wood.--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3122\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"450\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3122\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-vespa-oddee-com.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden Vespa\" width=\"450\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-vespa-oddee-com.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-vespa-oddee-com-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> Wooden Vespa - from oddee.com[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>Barend Hemmes&#8217; remarkable wooden lightbulb<\/h3>\n<p>The things we&#8217;ve looked at so far are unique, one-offs. But this little beauty is available to buy. How about a laser-cut plywood lamp in the shape of a light bulb? It&#8217;s just one of a growing range of unusual and often very beautiful items laser cut from wood which, before laser tech came along, would have been impossible to make by hand, far too complex to be financially viable in a commercial context. Designed by the talented Barend Hemmes, it&#8217;s available from Suck UK and features the technology&#8217;s typical and very attractive crisp, burned edge.<!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3123\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"580\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3123\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/woodbulb-suck-uk-com.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden Light Bulb\" width=\"580\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/woodbulb-suck-uk-com.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/woodbulb-suck-uk-com-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/> Wooden Light Bulb - from suck.uk.com[\/caption]\n\n--> <!--\n\n\n<h3>Wooden wedding rings<\/h3>\n\n\nSo you thought wedding rings had to be made from precious materials? Think again. This beautiful wooden wedding ring is hand made in Massachussets, USA, from turquoise, resin, Koa wood and titanium.\n\nKoa wood itself is an amazing material. It's one of the planet's most prized cabinet and furniture woods, grown in Hawaii. It comes in a wide range of colours, everything from light browns to rich, deep reds plus a gorgeous 'figured' (AKA patterned) version. And it's used for a huge variety of things including fine furniture, musical instruments, gun stocks and knife handles.\n\nThis ring follows a long and illustrious trend for using cheap materials in jewellery, from our ancient ancestors. to the Arts and Crafts movement. to 1970s costume jewellery, and right up to this day.\n\nThe sheer delicacy and precision of this ring is testament to the wide variety of things you can do with the material, potentially one of the most versatile materials on the planet.--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3124\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"570\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3124\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-wedding-ring.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden Wedding Ring\" width=\"570\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-wedding-ring.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-wedding-ring-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wooden-wedding-ring-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/> Wooden Wedding Ring[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>Stunning speakers made of wood<\/h3>\n<p>If you love music you&#8217;ll fall for this stunning item, a wooden speaker that doubles as a cool, minimalist work of art on your wall. It&#8217;s the JMC Soundboard and it&#8217;s a real, functioning loudspeaker made from &#8216;Tonewood&#8217;, which is actually old spruce. Combining 350 year old spruce wood with traditional luthier techniques \u2013 usually used to make guitars \u2013 and cutting edge audio tech, the results are apparently &#8216;exceptional&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, spruce wood has long been valued for its resonant properties, used by luthiers for centuries to create the lovely true and clear sound you only get from a seriously good hand-made instrument. Because the sound waves the wood creates are omni-directional you only need a single speaker, which throws the sound around the entire space.<!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3125\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"580\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3125\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tonewood-loudspeaker.jpg\" alt=\"Tonewood Loudspeaker\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tonewood-loudspeaker.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tonewood-loudspeaker-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/> Tonewood Loudspeaker[\/caption]\n\n--> <!--\n\n\n<h3>Mystery wooden exoskeleton \u2013 Can you solve it?<\/h3>\n\n\nForget toy Transformers. How about this full-size human 'exoskeleton' made from wood? Exoskeleton tech is moving ahead in leaps and bounds, useful for military purposes as well as to help people with spinal injuries walk again. This amazing image is too good to miss, found on the izismile website, but sadly we can't tell you a thing about it since there's no source or reference and we can't find it on Google.\n\nHow about you? If you know anything about this extraordinary wooden suit, we'd love to know about it!--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3126\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"500\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3126\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wood_sculptures_izismile-com.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden Exoskeleton\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wood_sculptures_izismile-com.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wood_sculptures_izismile-com-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/> Wooden Exoskeleton - from izismile.com[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>Wooden cars to die for<\/h3>\n<p>Are you a dedicated petrol head? If you think a wooden car would be, by nature, a bit clunky and silly, there&#8217;s a treat in store for you. Some of them are just as classy, shiny and stylish as any mainstream sporty metal, carbon fibre or fibreglass model. The finish is quite simply superb, a masterpiece in the woodworker&#8217;s art and a triumph in top class artisan skills.<\/p>\n<p><!--Here's a photo of the breathtaking Tryane II Wooden Car, a glorious machine we're just dying to get our hands on to buff it to an even higher sheen... if that's even possible. What an absolute beauty.--><\/p>\n<p><!--\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_3127\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"470\"]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3127\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tryane_2_wooden_car-myinterestingfiles-com.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden Car\" width=\"470\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tryane_2_wooden_car-myinterestingfiles-com.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.wood-finishes-direct.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tryane_2_wooden_car-myinterestingfiles-com-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/> Wooden Car - from myinterestingfiles.com[\/caption]\n\n--><\/p>\n<h3>More fantastic and unusual wood items<\/h3>\n<p>As you can see, there&#8217;s a lot more to wood than meets the eye. What&#8217;s the most unusual wooden item you&#8217;ve come across? Let us know by leaving a comment \u2013 we&#8217;d love to share it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wood is remarkable stuff. Before it&#8217;s cut down, it&#8217;s a living material not unlike flesh. It&#8217;s incredibly strong but at the same time it&#8217;s flexible. It can be extremely dense and hard, for example Quebracho, named for the Spanish quebrar hacha, which means axe breaker. 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