March 15, 2007: Wooden watch, car, gun

[Undertoad]

It's an odd bit of queue-clearing, but I have for you today... three items that are unexpectedly made of wood.

First, this watch blog features an wooden watch, carved in Russia in the year 1900.



Even the gears are wood! Which means it could not possibly have worked very well.



Then Spluch featured this wooden car, which someone also forwarded, can't remember who? The whole thing is explained in detail here. This is not the first wooden car, but it's beautiful and functional.



Lastly, this image is watermarked by its source, which means I wouldn't have picked it for a sole entry, but it's interesting. This is a gun, manufactured by hand by the Unabomber. It's one of a number of shots in these slides of evidence they collected for the case. A little less interesting, to me anyway, is this Smoking Gun slideshow of bomb-making evidence.