Astounding video

[Brian Kent]

I encourage you to look up "Woodswimmer" and watch the video. It is a stop-action video of slices of wood.

Here is a way to access it:

https://vimeo.com/196683500

[Matt Day]

Cool, thanks for the suggestion. Wonder how he's cutting?

[Andrew Pitonyak]

OK, now that blew my mind. I can't even imagine how many hours that took. He was asked in the comments how he did it, his response is very interesting.

[Mike Kreinhop]

The link showed a different video for me, but here is the link I found for Woodswimmer:


https://vimeo.com/196683500

[Ted Reischl]

The original link above took me to a vimeo site that showed a trailer of a stop action futuristic robot movie. Interesting, but there were no comments attached for it, and I sure as heck wouldn't pay them $2 to watch their "movie".

Think vimeo may have their links all goofy.

[Bruce Page]

The original link above took me to a vimeo site that showed a trailer of a stop action futuristic robot movie. Interesting, but there were no comments attached for it, and I sure as heck wouldn't pay them $2 to watch their "movie".

Think vimeo may have their links all goofy.

Sorry guys, my bad.:o The link should be fine now. When I “fixed” Brian’s link I accidently copied the link that followed the Woodswimmers video.

Brian, for future reference videos like this are perfectly acceptable. There is no need to disable the link by inserting a “(dot) com."

[Mike Henderson]

Wow, it's hard to imagine the amount of work that went into making that video. Taking a small cut, then filming the cut - over and over again. Then editing the whole thing - just amazing.

Mike

[Art Mann]

That is just remarkable! I only wish I had that kind of patience.

[David Utterback]

That is incredible! It took me almost a minute to figure out what was going on. What artistry in wood.

[Bill McNiel]

Very cool! It reinforces the reality that the material we play with is not static and should not be treated nor presented as such.

Brian-many thanks for posting this - Bill

[Ole Anderson]

I can't imagine anything sharp and strong enough to cut thin slices across the grain that would make the cut ready to take a pic without sanding and polishing for every slice. Wow!

[Mel Fulks]

Some time back I saw a video ,sent by Stewie, that showed a new planer that removes wood in a solid sheet. Could that be a more dramatic view of the same capability?

[Ben Rivel]

I have seen this done a few times before. This is the best version of it so far. Pretty cool.

[Eric Keller]

there are a couple of piles of shavings, but no tools and no sawdust are shown anywhere that I could find. I'm not sure the surface has to be all that well finished

[Brian Kent]

I wonder if it is only sanded.