This Facebook Page Is All About Appreciating Woodworking Skills, Here’s Their 40 Best Posts
Let’s take a moment to appreciate our hands, shall we? Hold them up and take a good look — these complex evolutionary wonders are two incredible tools we have attached to our bodies. What our minds dream up, our hands can do, giving us opportunities to consistently create new and exciting goods.
Take woodworking, for example. Enthusiasts come up with the most meticulous designs and trust their steady hands that every detail will be carried out with precision, care, and passion. Many people who devote time to master this craft are no strangers to the touch of raw wood and the feeling of thread-thin streams of sawdust running through their fingers. Once they grasp how fulfilling, relaxing, and inspiring this activity is, they never look back.
So let us introduce you to the "Amazing Woodworking" Facebook page. With their magic touch, talented craftsmen keep sharing unique and impressive projects they're extremely proud of, and it’s easy to see why. We at Bored Panda have scoured the page and selected some of the best examples, so be sure to upvote your favorite ones! And if you’re looking for even more artistic pieces made out of wood, check out our earlier publications here and right here.
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OMG yesss! Always wanted a tub like this! How can I upvote a bajillion more times?
Wonder if it can stand repeated heating without shedding the shellac :)
They should make one using those special paint that changes color depending on the temperature
I can't... I can't even... I cannot even begin to express how amazing this is! I don't have the vocabulary!
I have the same problem, it's ..... ............ ................. . .............. ......... ....... ........... incredible.
Load More Replies...I was just there last month! That is the Sanctuary of Truth in Pattaya Thailand. This piece is nothing when compared to the scale of the whole place. It is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. The whole place is nothing but hand carvings.
More background please BP. This looks Asian, but from where? Is it traditional or a very talented person who has initiated it.
I was thinking the same thing, I'd love to know more about it. The intricacy is really remarkable. I've seen one other example that was similar (but in a movie, so I wasn't sure if it was inspired by a specific culture or what) and it's really amazing how they convey movement and depth.
Load More Replies...The extraordinary details this contains is amazing. Not only was she able to chisle this masterpiece but she was able to dream it up or recollect it with such precision.
Ever since the 'Amazing Woodworking' project appeared on Facebook, it has invited woodworking enthusiasts from far and wide to share their impressive projects. Plus, it has amassed over 1.1 million fans along the way. The founder of this community, trainer, educator, and master craftsman John Rowe, started this project to share his passion for the craft. He is also the founder of the WoodPlansFree.com site, where he offers free plans and advice to aspiring crafters.
Apparently, Rowe created the site because most of the plans that woodworking aficionados collect from magazines or books are shoddy, incomplete, and "will leave you with more questions than answers." Throughout his career, he felt frustrated about his students ending up with half-finished goods, so he decided to solve his problem. "These plans are an accumulation of my 40 years of woodworking experience and know-how," the educator wrote. This way, he offers people a chance to absorb knowledge and build stunning new projects.
same. just fit it with a toilet, outlets, and fridge and i'm set!
Load More Replies...Awesome, unless you're the one who has to change the sheets on the top bunk!
This is incredible, i've always loved Loft beds. This would be perfect for my wife and i if the lower bed were replaced with a crafting are for my wife's endless projects (the reading area on the end though would stay, that takes it from nice to amazing.)
I would too, and probably wind up crashing to the floor!
Load More Replies...Without the front post and those 3 giant wharf ropes it is perfection...and maybe a lift-up lid under the mattress?
*straps on some wings and flies around her new hobbits home* twee!
Load More Replies...There once was a crooked little man who lived in a crooked little house...
The first thing that came to mind was *life sized fairy house*. Very pretty🤩
Rowe also opened up about how he picked up power tools and fell in love with this fulfilling activity. "I started learning woodworking from my granddad when I was 11 and I've never stopped since. He taught me everything I knew and together, we built all the furniture around the house. Many of the projects we've built are still present in my house," he revealed on his website.
"Woodworking has been a career and a passion for me and I consider myself fortunate to be doing what I love for a living," Rowe said, adding that nowadays he also runs a workshop conducting classes and creates custom projects for clients. "This site serves as a 'journal' as well as a 'giveaway' for all the plans and knowledge I've amassed throughout my life," he explained that it would be a waste for him to keep his knowledge and expertise to himself.
Where would you put the mattress though? I am not sure if it is safe to put an air mattress on this? It is beautiful, still.
I think it's a camp bed for re-enactors. Some of their pavilions can get pretty elaborate.
I'm not getting this one. It's either a rarely used bed for guests, in which case mattress storage is an issue, or it's for everyday use, and then I can't imagine it's worth the bother (compared to, say, a fold-out sofa). And mattress storage is still an issue. ETA: never mind the mattress, the support clearly doesn't fold out either! As a former tiny appartment inhabitant I've gotten quite good at spotting solutions which seem smart for small spaces, but actually aren't. Trust me, it's a whole genre.
I follow a Japanese person on twitter who does it. Just Google pencil carving, some amazing stuff out there.
Load More Replies...I couldn't work out what was so cool about this at first, it was nostalgic and the train was detailed but the wood was kind of rough and why was it all yellow? Then it clicked. Absolutely incredible, and the fact that I thought it was at least three times the size says a lot about the details and the levels of patience and precision in the craftsmanship
Do More-And send them to train Museums for display of Train Lovers Art!
To learn more about woodworking and how fulfilling this recreational activity is, we reached out to Gary Rogowski, founder of The Northwest Woodworking Studio in Portland, Oregon, and author of Handmade, Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction. He told Bored Panda that woodworking is his life, passion, hobby, and a way of living and surviving in the world.
"It is both an elixir and an irritant. It is as necessary for me now to interpret the world through my hands at the bench as it is to read and hear the world’s revolving bad news. Woodworking is my method of relaxation and my greatest source of frustration. It is simple, elemental, and seemingly a small world that once you enter grows into an enormous place to explore," Rogowski said, adding that he started around 40-plus years ago and yet still has so much more to learn.
It's not only the woodworking skill involved in all these examples, it's also the creative imagination!
Amazing sculpted horse staircase by Jop van Driel!
All that effort, it's an amazing sculpture, but I'm a tad disappointed it's not a unicorn
Then a villain could be impaled on it when the hero throws them from the landing in the finale :D
Load More Replies...Great to see the artist credited. A unique piece, I am guessing it was commissioned.
If it were a unicorn, one would not be able to slide down the bannister!
As soon as I see it I'm just worried about someone finding away to break it, and obviously it's unreplaceable.
the books already there are the appetizer version of the main library on the other side of the door
Load More Replies...Beautiful. I wish we had more backstory. How long it took, types of wood etc. Come on BP, you started as a creative design site. Give us some creative background.
The teacher and builder of fine furniture explained that when a project goes well, woodworking is as soothing and rewarding as so many people say it is. "It is the best feeling in the world," he added. But unfortunately, that’s not always the case. As Rogowski explains in his podcast called The Joy of Gluing, some things in this craft are far from relaxing, and a glue-up "can summon anxiety like skidding on black ice on the highway."
"I had a student once, former military, and he told me that it was easier for him to sit in some foxholes in a firefight than it was for him to glue up a complicated piece," he continued. Although the stakes do not seem as enormous, you may be ruining weeks of work. "This is why one apologizes to one's helper if they are unlucky enough to be with you during a glue-up."
I would love a spiral stair case like this, but also with the option to have all the steps flatten out and turn the stair case into a slide.
I bet some talented woodworker can do that for you.
Load More Replies...I feel like in the room at the top of those stairs you would find Sleeping Beauty asleep on a large similarly carved four poster bed.
Hopefully not Princess Fiona, as she lived with a fire-breathing dragon.
Load More Replies...Mamma mia - now that's what you call a carving done entirely from one block
Carved seesaw for kids by Dimitry Ramushkevich
Would need liberal amounts of strengthening and preservative resin and some radical artificial reinforcing at and in the axis or with kids it will have a very short life.
read "or the kids will have a very short life" - disguised catapult.
Load More Replies...Stunning. Children would love it. I will add though that I also loved my seesaw made from an old builder's plank. Maybe this is decorative to add sculpture to a garden. Certainly a conversation piece.
My thought exactly. Clearly amazing craftsmanship... But huge NOPE
Load More Replies...However, it’s hard to deny that creating something with your own two hands is extremely satisfying. Crafting things out of wood brings forth plenty of mental and physical benefits too, like a healthier body, lowered stress levels, and countless opportunities to express your creativity. For Rogowski, it is the sense of control that is appealing.
"First, I have to have my tools spread out exactly where I can find them. Then, I have to have knowledge of the technique I am about to reproduce. I may have an inkling of what success looks like but it can be elusive and feel more like a limp to the finish line than a triumph with horns trumpeting in the background. And yet, I am lost without being able to build," he told Bored Panda.
Hand made rocking chair carved from one chunk of wood!
It is really beautiful, but I wondered about the huge chunk of wood this was made of, What about the wood that was carved out? Can other stuff be made from the remainder?
The vision and artistry involved in the creation of this is stunning.
By Aleksandr Borzov
By far, my favorite in this collection; the exquisite detail is beyond compare.
Beautiful woodwork but the overworked knife handle ruins the thing. You can’t practically do nothing useful with that without getting blisters to your hand and instead a beautiful tool in a magnificent case that is just a cool looking prop.
"If you are a woodworker, I know who you are," Rogowski said. "Woodworkers love tools. We love to get our hands on them, tune them, make them sharp so they can perform magic for us. We love to display them so we can stare at them like trophies but these trophies also carry stories inside. This is what I can do if only the hands holding me can figure it out." The teacher also added that craftsmen simply need to know where everything is in their shop. "Control of their universe is so important because the world is such a crazy place. This is critical to our mental health."
Moreover, woodworkers are problem solvers. Even if you don’t consider yourself a generally innovative person, this craft requires you to consistently think of new ways to carve wood to achieve the desired result. You will need to think outside the box and begin to see solutions where other people see only issues.
This brings to mind the time my brother put his pet mice in my dollhouse. I can't stop thinking about the fun they'd have in this!
Pretty sure this is not made out of lollypop/ice-cream sticks and/or matchsticks..unfortunately in New Zealand this indicates a period of enforced confinement activity. The core parts have miniature tree trunks on 3 separate bases - the left hand one decidedly precarious - but all have that labour of love/occupational therapy aspect to them done over long days and nights. Good job.
Love the concept (very original), not crazy about the execution. Especially the part on the left of the picture, it doesn't look like that's strong enough to lean on.
Also, shouldn't there be 50 people downvoting it for what is apparently BP's most hated quote?
Load More Replies...take those godawful "live laugh love" cushions away and sure it's nice, though I'd stain it darker.
OmLord! So beautiful. I would build my home around that. Marry a man that works with wood. From building a home, to beautifying every inch of it, inside and out with his hands, wood and copper.
I'd love to see where this will go when complete! Has to be a very deserving room.
Funny ,after I finished our forty five foot motorsailer, that's what my wife said too!
now I know where to order my bed that looks like it was a prop in "Vikings"
Carving is such a time consuming task, but sooo satisfying in the end <3
Woodworkers love to figure out a way to make something work, Rogowski noted. "I had a new student who was an old teaching doctor of surgery at a large hospital in my city. He told me that he never knew how much woodworking was like surgery. I had to say: Neither did I. But what he said next made perfect sense. Woodworking and surgery put you into situations you have to get out of. You have to figure out how you correct your mistake and then how never to get back into that spot again," he recounted.
"Finally, the reason we love to be in the shop working at the bench is so that we need to talk with ourselves. This conversation may be the best one we have all day long. It is restorative, regular, and barely remunerative." Putting your mind on a project helps you relax and unwind from the pressures you may have in your personal life. It keeps your mind sharp and maintains an overall healthy mental wellbeing. "I tell my students that woodworking is a terrible way to make a living. It is a great way to live."
Maybe it was 4 trees trained to grow that way and then they're absorbing each other after being intwined at the top? Definitely can't be a living tree carved that way
Load More Replies...This isn't woodwork; it's tree training. You cut and bend the trees when they are young and they will grow in the direction you guide then.
I went to the comments to find an explanation and i wasn't disappointed.
If I’m not mistaken, this is a draft horse, right? It’s insanely gorgeous!
The eyelid is drooping. The horse is tired, but he's still got to get the load in.
this is my top pick just outstanding .......posted by a 50yr master woodworker
If I had entirely too much money, sure I'd help with Flint's water supply and things like that...but I would also be commissioning something like this for my cats.
Now you just gotta spray some transparent shiny cover to finish it <3
If you’re considering picking up woodworking as a hobby, Rogowski mentioned that once you find something you enjoy doing at the bench — whether it’s planing wood, carving, creating, or setting intricate inlay — time will disappear. "You will enter that state of flow where the world goes away, the work in front of you consumes all your attention, and this effort is as fulfilling as anything you do on that day. It is exhausting and restorative at one and the same time."
Agreed, it's too much. The opulence takes away from what a tree house is supposed to be (I assume it's a tree house). I'd keep the door, though.
Load More Replies...Found it! https://www.pioneerloghomesofbc.com/galleries-videos/featured-projects/loveland/
Load More Replies...I think that's the front door with glass on either
Load More Replies...Yes, this one is just too much. I'm sure there are plenty who wood love it, though.
Who "wood" love it! I don't know if that was intentional but good one!
Load More Replies...Pretty sure they do. If you rearrange the corners the chairs should fit into the middle.
Load More Replies...Is it just me or do you see kids and drunk people getting stuck in these at some point?
Funny you never know what you need for completion until you find it. Talk about hearing a click. The only problem is that cats love to eat puzzle pieces. I definitely don't want to lose one.
Woodworking has given Rogowski more than he ever thought. This age-old skill forced him to slow down, pushed him to think in different ways, and, ultimately, learn how to forgive himself. According to him, this is the hardest skill to master.
"My ability to screw things up can be impressive. But to recognize that the new mistake is not actually as big as the room as it first seems. If I can walk outside and walk around for a few minutes, when I return the problem has shrunk down to its normal size, I have come up with a solution, and you will never know it’s there unless I point it out to you. God and I know of all of these errors in my work, and since she stays mum on the subject, so do I," he concluded.
So stark the difference between this skilful artistic rendition and the chainsawing things above.
Yeh no kidding. The most intricate thing I’ve ever seen personally-
Load More Replies...Amazon review: "I returned this wine glass because it wouldn't hold my wine. So disappointed it was very pretty!"
I'd put a flameless votive candle in it. Just think of the shadows!
Load More Replies...That's definitely a lost Beauty and the Beast character. A hog, maybe?
Load More Replies...Looks like the chair is petting the dragons - there's a good fire puppe
And the dragon has a squeaky ball in its mouth
Load More Replies...looks amazing, however I am not sure it is that usefull. Wood is a material that has vastely differerent strengths depending on the direction you load it due to its grains. If it is cut from one piece of wood, the grain will certainly be in an unfavorable direction at some location, and hence the chair would be very weak if someone sat in it, which would likely cause to break. Therefore funiture is often made from several pieces which can all be oriented in such a way that their "strong" direction is used to its maximum potential.
Did you hear about the wooden tractor with the wooden engines, wooden wheels and wooden seats? It wooden go..
these bad puns are making me cypressed... i willow leaf now :(
Load More Replies...This looks like somebody who has... just enough time to do what they really love in life!
Ian Grant
I made this rocking horse from plywood. laminate the sheets together
From Steven Kniess : I built this from a tree that blew over in my back yard
A great example of how to reuse something and maintain the natural beauty.
Something about this makes me uneasy... Beautiful, but I have this eerie feeling those legs will start to crawl in the middle of the night...
Pretty-looking rocking chair by Kevin DesPlanques
Native Americans, Larger than life in my life-I married a beautiful.N.A.Woman!
Reminds me of the national monument to Martin Luther King, still half trapped inside the stone.Native Americans are still struggling to be treated like free people.
"I've come to talk about your home insurance, specifically fire cover".
How many years would you have to wait to finally move in to that house??
THERE ARE NO ENGLISH WORDS ENOUGH-NO-I CANT- AAAAAA I JST NEED THIS I NEED IT
Gorgeous wooden bed by Colin Ritchie
Just no. As the person who makes the beds in this house, you know how awful it's going to be to get those sheets tucked? Every one of these 'fancy' beds. Those 'treehouse' bunk beds, like the one above. Just horror stories of bed-making.
You make the kids do it, and as far as I'm concerned, the sheets don't have to be perfectly tucked in so long as they're clean.
Load More Replies...Merry and Pippin rented an apartment together after they returned to the Shire.
Stained glass in the opening. Must be something as beautiful as the carving.
Why the fancy sink and then the plain tap and plug hole? It would elevate the whole piece if the tap was 'fancier'. I also agree with Sonja, it'd be a bugger to clean.
Clever but I would be worried about the lacquer failing and it going rotten.
Yep, you'd have to keep refinishing on the regular, no thanks.
Load More Replies...How do you clean it without destroying that beautiful lacquer? It's too pretty to use.
This messes with my mind in a good way. I wouldn't want to try cleaning up that one glob of toothpaste that always gets missed, though.
It looks like it was all seperate pieces and somone put them together... can someone confirm?
Judging by the differing directions of the wood grain on each piece then I'd say you are right.
Load More Replies...Not my taste for a bed but how fabulous is that?!! The skill involved, not to mention the patience, wow!
So this is marquetry I believe? It would be nice to know a little more about the piece.
I know one guy who make these wooden animal figures. I would like to have one, but they're expensive.
Mimo Lio
Amazing Dove-Tail joinery on the transition in this stairway hand-rail
The beauty of dovetails are that they fit the axiom of good woodworking craftsmanship exactly " if you can't 'hide' the joint 'show' the joint.
Bit short, eh? Would fit the child only for a few years, sadly. But very cute!
Nobody, just like every other child's room, unless grandma is coming over! The room was staged for this pic, then never looked like this again, I'm sure!
Load More Replies...Those sticky-up pointy bits on top are just so-so dangerous for kids could lose and eye on one of them, obviously someone without children ..all parents instinctively know dangers...however its easily remedied.
Most likely chain saw protective gear: hard hat with steel screen face guard and attached hearing protectors.
These are great steps, but they feel a bit out of place with the rest of the surroundings.
I would say exactly the opposite but that is the good thing about this site,it is for all tastes:)
Load More Replies...Still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. Absolutely stunning work from seriously skilled and amazing artists. Thank you for sharing!!
No doubt that all of these were made from truly experienced craftsmen/women but many of them would be a nightmare to clean.
If most of us could afford this kind of art we wouldn't be the ones cleaning it.
Load More Replies...Loved those! It takes hard work and practice to make sculpteres like that! For all of you who made those, keep working hard! it seems your hard work is paying off!
I bet the creators of these works of art will get lots and lots of commissions after this!
WOW!!! Incredibly beautiful and well thought out designs! Every wood worker who displayed their items is truly talented, and you have every right to be very proud of, and pleased with, your fabulous creations.
I was feeling pretty good about myself for a candlestick holder I made the other day. Not so much now.
remember that those took literal DECADES of practice and tremendous amounts of natural talent. so be proud of your own creations! i pick up a chainsaw and cut off my finger before even turning it on LOL >_<
Load More Replies...Still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. Absolutely stunning work from seriously skilled and amazing artists. Thank you for sharing!!
No doubt that all of these were made from truly experienced craftsmen/women but many of them would be a nightmare to clean.
If most of us could afford this kind of art we wouldn't be the ones cleaning it.
Load More Replies...Loved those! It takes hard work and practice to make sculpteres like that! For all of you who made those, keep working hard! it seems your hard work is paying off!
I bet the creators of these works of art will get lots and lots of commissions after this!
WOW!!! Incredibly beautiful and well thought out designs! Every wood worker who displayed their items is truly talented, and you have every right to be very proud of, and pleased with, your fabulous creations.
I was feeling pretty good about myself for a candlestick holder I made the other day. Not so much now.
remember that those took literal DECADES of practice and tremendous amounts of natural talent. so be proud of your own creations! i pick up a chainsaw and cut off my finger before even turning it on LOL >_<
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