Barbie's Woodshop

April 24, 2020 3:30 AM

Drop your tools and follow Barbies's Woodshop on Instagram! Or read this interview, at least.
posted by Harald74 (12 comments total)

Micro woodworking breaks my brain. I have a hard enough time with macro woodworking. This is amazing.
posted by rockindata at 4:46 AM on April 24, 2020 [2 favorites]

Bookbinder Barbie is also pretty great, although she hasn't posted yet this year.
posted by Sweetie Darling at 4:47 AM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

Do they have a full sized barbie or did that latticework get done at an insanely small scale? WTF!
posted by Nanukthedog at 5:18 AM on April 24, 2020

Nope, nope, no way. The only way I can wrap my head around this is that Barbie is a 5'6" mannequin.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 5:19 AM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

man i would have loved this as a kid.
posted by zsh2v1 at 6:55 AM on April 24, 2020

Wow. WOW. This is fantastic art, the whole thing.
posted by Going To Maine at 7:30 AM on April 24, 2020

That's my kind of Barbie!
posted by jgirl at 8:59 AM on April 24, 2020

I want to know where those tiny handtools come from! Are they hand-made models, or does some mad genius sell these to...uh...woodshop puppeteers?
posted by wenestvedt at 9:16 AM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

Aw! The Lee Valley Palm-sized tools are something but this is something ELSE.

What wood do they use to scale down the grain, do they say? Can you tell?
posted by clew at 12:39 PM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

I don't think it is real grain. Probably something like bass wood that has had a faux grain applied to it.
posted by Mitheral at 12:47 PM on April 24, 2020

It's Lost Arts Press week here huh? I'm all for it! This reminds me of Marco Terenzi's miniatures.
posted by St. Oops at 6:56 PM on April 24, 2020 [1 favorite]

Here's a build of a 1:15 office chair, showing some techniques one might use on a project like this.
posted by Harald74 at 2:14 AM on May 5, 2020