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Giant Creative Zen Stone Crafted From Wood

By: Grahm Skee on August 23, 2007 5:12 PM

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One of our forum moderators, Captain Ødegård, is quite crafty when it comes to woodworking. He claims he has more wood tools than I have MP3 players, but one of these days we will have to settle the score.

Honed out of pine and burned with a hot knife-- his latest creation is a giant Creative Zen Stone measures 8.25 x 5.5 x 2 inches. The internal components aren’t the real Zen components since the Stone is relatively expensive in Norway. However, this wooded Stone still does pack in 4 times the memory with 4GB of memory stored on an SD memory card.

Photos and video of the wooded Stone in action below…

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You can check out some of the Captain’s other projects at his site like the D2 Jukebox, R2 for the D2, NES Player, Wooden Stone, along with many others.

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Comments

iamtheworld on August 23, 2007 6:21 PM

thats freaking awesome.
good job.

FroggyGuy on August 23, 2007 6:26 PM

That's brilliant!

Phoenix-X on August 23, 2007 6:49 PM

Nice one Captain
*applaudes*

ipk2368 on August 23, 2007 7:28 PM

WoW !! That's totally awesome !

DonDon on August 23, 2007 10:38 PM

Thats cool sir, you could have quite a sell-fest selling those babes on e-bay. Great Job really cool work.
Seriously though... you could make like 1000-2000 dollars profit, easy just post a "Buy Me" link below your video or something. ^_^

DNICE on August 23, 2007 10:40 PM

Should it not be called Creative Zen WOOD?

Utew on August 24, 2007 12:36 AM

Nice woody ya got there, Cap'n.....

Captain Ødegård on August 24, 2007 2:30 AM

It's a proof of concept project, meaning i used the cheapest part available to make something thats not meant to be used just as a way to say "it's possible". So i won't sell it because i dant guarantee how long the parts will last. If i ever make something with parts thats not from china i might sell it :)

Spencer on August 24, 2007 8:08 AM

you are my hero

Ray on August 24, 2007 8:08 AM

wicked piece of craftsmanship, we hail ya woodworking skills Captain :)

Maarten on September 1, 2007 9:50 PM

Omg that's awesome! ... You can make money out of this, although it's quite expensive to make one i guess.

Good job and erm, an other Zen next time or an iPod?

ongre08 on September 7, 2007 2:50 AM

I love it. If only I had the tools and time to do anything even close to this, its amazing.

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