8 Objects That Should Never Be Made From Wood But Were

Wood is great for making fires, less good for making tires and just plain terrible for making irons. These are projects that never should have been attempted.

Photo from AbleSkills carpentry course / Via ableskills.co.uk

Have you ever looked at a perfectly good object and thought 'that would work in Cedar'? Of course you haven't. For a strange band of slightly confused carpenters though time after time they've then gone and made that object in wood. Let's take a look at the frankly insane results of hundreds of hours of sawing, sanding and polishing.

1. Cars

2. Bikes

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3. Clothing

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4. A Band

5. Your Entire Home

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6. Fire Extinguishers

Via thewrendesign.com

What better place to put a lecture on fire safety than on a fire extinguisher made of wood? Presumably the last extinguisher burnt down...

7. Records

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Apart from the potential damage to cartridges and the relevant abundance of vinyl, it just doesn't sound as good.

8. An Iron

Via etsy.com

If you enjoy unnecessarily crumpled clothes you'll be pleased to hear that this is actually available for sale on that most hipster of locations - Etsy.