We’ve seen matchstick art before, but most of the time it usually involves a stupid amount of tiny, normal-sized matches. What Eduard Krawchenko from Our Vidos TV (OVT EN) wants to do instead is make one large match. It’s OBNOXIOUSLY large, ugly and has us laughing at the result. It’s just something you have to see (and put on the list to make over the holidays): If you’ve made smoke bombs before, you know the process, but instead of putting your potassium nitrate mixture inside a small egg carton, you get a MASSIVE post and coat the end until you have (what looks like) a match head. Let’s break it…

19 years after it was first released, the Nokia 3310 has been known to be THE phone when it comes to durability. It’s been dropped from high altitudes, run over by all types of vehicles, and even shot with firearms. And most of these times, the phone has lived to play mobile Snake another day. So, it’s only inevitable that history’s strongest phone gets turned into a hard-hitting construction tool. Using some crude and quick methods, YouTuber Blintom Man takes a Nokia 3310 and turns it into the head of a hammer: So, yeah, it’s more of a Nokia 3310 inlay within the solid steel frame of a hammerhead, but…

The END IS NIEGH… The end of 2019. You’ve been taking half days at work to plan shenanigans to ring in the new year, but have hit a roadblock on one critical item: 2020 NEW YEAR’S EVE GLASSES. How can you be seen in public without a ridiculous set of year-shaped spectacles?! You can’t! And for a year such as 2020, it’s got to be good. I mean, how may other 2020s are you going to have? (Answer: NONE.) So, let’s make it count… or at the very least, help close out that icky 2019 with a bunch of high-fives and, “Hey dude! Sweet specs!” Kalle-Iivari Mononen, aka, superbeasti, has…

As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack. What We’re Reading This Week: Cord Cutters Love to Watch, Until the Free Trials Expire Streaming…

Ever find yourself in a situation where you wish you had a hacksaw on hand? Instead of lugging around a traditional hacksaw, YouTuber Cemal Açar shows how you can create your own portable version that fits neatly inside of a pen-like case: Taking a saw blade from an electric hacksaw, Cemal first sharpens the blade before wrapping it in two individual sheets of plastic to measure its dimensions. These pieces of plastic will serve as the housing for some resin casts which will hold the blade in place. He then creates his own resin mixture and pours it into the plastic. Using a couple of wooden slabs and some pliers,…

Has there ever been a time when you looked at your tool box/bin/pile and thought, “I wish I had more space”? Creator and craftsman, Hassan Abu-Izmero, has. Funny enough, he looked at an empty gasoline can and thought it was the perfect size for his most used tools. Let’s see how he made it: After cutting ¼ way through the empty (and hopefully clean) gas can, Hassan starts crafting multiple wooden compartments for his various tools. The base of the gas can holds all the tools with the sharp edges of the gas can deburred and covered with rubber edge trim to prevent injury. Hassan constructs a removable wooden tool…