Decorative, whimsical and lacy laser-etched hand-tools

Artist Dan Funderburgh is currently exhibiting his collection of beautifully laser-etched, lacy and whimsical hand-tools (and other metal bits) at Riviera gallery. Link (via Make)

[#1 posted by Beanolini , May 16, 2008 7:03 AM]

Cal Lane has done some similar stuff- her plasma cut lacy shovels are absolutely stunning.

[#2 posted by Cory Doctorow , May 16, 2008 7:13 AM]

Those are great -- too bad the pix are all stuck in linkable flashblobs. Why do designers love Flash so much? It must be a gigantic pain to update those sites, and no one can link directly to one of your pieces... It's like the artist is saying, "Hey, all my pieces are equivalent, so one really needs to show a friend any one specific piece."

[#3 posted by snackcake , May 16, 2008 7:48 AM]

Ceci n'est pas un pipe wrench.

those aren't actually tools, but cut out silhouettes of tools: see flat screwdriver at top, and flat oil can... the saw is close to being a tool.

[#4 posted by burningcanoe , May 16, 2008 9:10 AM]

Actually this, and Lane's, work is a blatant rip-off the grand-pappy of laser etched equipment, Wim Delvoye

http://www.muzarte.net/blog/wp-content/photos/Wim_Delvoye_engin.jpg