Designer Firewood

In an earlier life, I lived out in the country and burned firewood (mostly split oak) to heat my home. I discovered early that paying attention while stacking the firewood would often yield some useful, if somewhat short, pieces for woodworking.
Of course, that was pre-iPod, pre-iPhone. Now there are many more useful things an enterprising wood burner with a sharp eye can do with an attractive, if somewhat short, log.
If you are lacking in logs but really like this idea, you can find it in Etsy.com.

Note: You may find this hard to believe, but this item is actually sold out! Where does this guy live, inside the Arctic Circle?

Watch Your Head

If you love wood and you want to see the wildest wooden house ever, then click through to the websites below for lots of photos, plus floor plans and space analysis. It's called the Final Wooden House from Japanese firm Sou Fujimoto Architects.

What's also interesting is that it's not just a model, but has actually been built.

Final Wooden House at the Cool Hunting blog and Log House at the today and tomorrow blog.

Log Bowls

Turning bowls from logs probably dates from the very first version of some pre-historic lathe. But somehow, I always thought of turning both the outside of a piece of wood as well as the inside to create a bowl. Now I know better.

Here are log bowls from the Loyal Loot Collective. From Loyal Loot:

Log Bowls combine the incomparable beauty of trees in their natural state with a high-gloss vibrant finish. Each bowl is handmade using only locally reclaimed
trees of all varieties (fallen or cut down due to infrastructure, re-landscaping, droughts, or stormy weather). The trees are hand selected, gathered, turned and finished by Loyal Loot Collective and local crafts people. Log Bowls come in a large variety of colors and are completed by hand with a water-based, furniture grade finish.

The Loyal Loot Collective's website has many more items worth seeing.

[Thanks to gadgets.boingboing.net]