Making a Life-Size Wood Nutcracker (that crushes coconuts) 

No better way to end the year than a ~2000 piece, 6.5' tall, 150lb CocoNutcracker!
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I just had to kick off the new year with a bang... or with a crack really. The latest #jackmansized creation is this nutcracker that is actually taller than me. He's built almost entirely out of wood and almost entirely out of reclaimed materials. The body, arms, and legs are all different segmented turnings built up from some reclaimed oak and fir beams/studs along with some maple butcher block off cuts. This totals up to being almost 100 segmented rings and 2,000 pieces of wood in total to construct this creation. Add some threaded rods to hold him together, a little bit of accent paint, some Carolina Boots on his feet, and some hair on his head/chin and we have a nutcracker that is capable of cracking coconuts! I'm honestly not sure what Carolina is going to do with this thing. It's incredibly robust though, so I suggested that they use him for testing out the safety toe in their boots, but apparently there are "nutcracker labor laws" I was unaware of.
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Materials
- Reclaimed oak beams & fir studs: bit.ly/2s49U8o
- Maple butcher block off-cuts
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- Carolina Logger boots
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- Furry blanket
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