Bigger, badder, beefier and better: Here's the best of what we saw this year in the power tools and accessories space.

You say you don't like removing and sharpening the blade on your 14" bandsaw? Well, try sharpening Hull-Oakes Lumber's 50-foot beast of a blade--which needs to be sharpened every two hours.

Image by Gary Katz / This is Carpentry

The brilliant QuadSaw attaches to your drill, allowing you to cut perfectly square and rectangular holes.

Another drill-o-vation: Worx's Switchdriver, equipped with a rotating chuck that lets you drill and drive without having to swap bits.

This year at Holz-Handwerk, which might be the largest power tool show on Earth, we saw Lamello's awesome, innovative Zeta P2 and P-System joinery method.

Fired your assistant, but need to break down some sheet goods? Pick up one of Mafell's self-propelled track saws, which we also spotted at Holz-Handwerk .

If you prefer your cutting be done by humans, check out the Straight Flush Saw, the "Swiss Army Knife of circular saws."

Sawing creates dust, of course. To protect yourself, pull on an Air+ Smart Mask--which comes with a built-in fan and exhaust valve that keeps the air you're breathing both fresh and cool.

Sawing also creates flying debris, and you need to protect your eyes from it, but conventional protective eyewear often fogs up. So try the Safe Eyes goggles, which replaces the lenses with fog-free steel mesh.

This next one isn't powered, but might as well be: Check out BMI's inside-out, self-deploying tape measure.

Also from BMI: Check out their beautiful line of levels. Just because it's a utility tool doesn't mean it can't be sexy!

Lastly we've got a powerful tool that doesn't use power at all--just air. Check out the very clever Winbag air shims.

This year we were thrilled to bring on tool nut/carpenter/furniture maker David Frane as a correspondent, who'll be bringing you more tool goodness in 2017. Check out all of his coverage to date here.

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More from Core77's 2016 Year in Review

The 16 Best Stories from 2016

16(ish) of 2016's Best Materials Moments

2016 Best of Furniture Design

10 Things 2016 Had to Offer to the Future of Transportation

2016 Best of Digital Fabrication

Footwear Designs That Pushed Boundaries in 2016

The Best of Sketching in 2016

9 Ways Robots and AI Took Over 2016 + How to Cope

2016 Best of Alternative Living

Crowdfunding is still a hit and miss landscape but its popularity for project backing is still solidly on the rise. While high profile disappointments are increasing too (hope you didn't buy a Pebble), Kickstarter and IndieGoGo campaigns have highlighted some of the most intriguing designs of the year. Key trends were simplified bike accessories, seriously elegant tools, design nerd resources. Here are XX of the most popular crowdfunding stories, plus a few headscratchers, from 2016.

Bike security is an ever-evolving but perpetually annoying issue. The Hexlox system offered up a tiny and surprisingly robust option for parts security using streamlined design and magnetism. 

Your Garmin is hideous and hideously complicated and your bike deserves a more beautiful option. The OMATA One suggests switching to a large and retro dial with the GPS guts you crave. 

A "light" and "easy to use" electrified bike wheel caught a lot of eyes with the promise that it could electrify any bike in under 60 seconds. A tall order, and front wheel drive would be an interesting thing to tangle with in traffic, but overall an exciting design. 

The "BIY" bamboo bike building folks at Bamboobee busted back onto the scene this year with an updated and improved jig. Can you now build a bike frame in under five hours? Probably not, but man it sounds good!

Another good sounding idea was the Ottolock, an ultralight option for bike security that functions much like a big zip tie and claims to resist cutting and theft a lot better. 

FormBox raised a lot of eyebrows and a lot of support with their small scale vacuum former. The conversations it's sparked about small scale tooling and prosumer design have been intriguing too. 

In similar but more surprising news, THEY MADE AN AFFORDABLE DESKTOP WATERJET? They seriously made an affordable desktop waterjet. 

Looking at other people's ID sketching can be both educational and a little voyeuristic. Tom Skeehan's well Kickstarted book Sketching Process clearly caught both sides of interest, and is now spreading new nerd gospel from Australia. 

The Dieter Rams documentary also got a load of community support, which is hardly surprising considering the renewed popularity of his philosophy and the shocking fact that this would be the first feature length doc on him alone. 

The attractive and innovative Noria AC unit had folks sweating over its minimal shape and extra smart engineering. Even the current winter chill can't take the shine of its cool design.

Sketching in 3D got a streamlined redesign too. After years of development the Gravity Sketch team took their VR app to Kickstarter and gave us a look at the future. 

Back in the meatspace, an Army veteran and mechanical engineer out of MIT brought us a tiny multitool we didn't know we wanted.

The Peak Design backpack blew a few minds and kicked up a lot of interest in smarter bag design. I bet you could fit like 700 multitools in there. 

On the weirder side, one of the early eyebrow raising campaigns of the year was this bottle slicer. Don't know exactly what you'd use a bottle slicer for? I still don't. Maybe someday we'll have a clear bottle-to-3D printer route map, but for now, we just have strips of post-Pepsi plastic.

Our test of folding polygonal measuring spoons turned up some gaps in the design that other projects might learn from. 

 And perhaps most necessary and inventive of all, 2016 offered us the Toasteroid, a smart toaster that will print weather reports and sexts. So let's see what the hell 2017 can do to top that. 

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More from Core77's 2016 Year in Review

The 16 Best Stories from 2016

16(ish) of 2016's Best Materials Moments

2016 Best of Furniture Design

10 Things 2016 Had to Offer to the Future of Transportation

2016 Best of Digital Fabrication

Footwear Designs That Pushed Boundaries in 2016

The Best of Sketching in 2016

9 Ways Robots and AI Took Over 2016 + How to Cope

2016 Best of Alternative Living

There is nothing quite so satisfying as manipulating materials using hand tools. There's a level of connection with the work, and human finesse, that you just can't get using things that plug into the wall.

There's been a bit of a handplane craze in recent years, and a handful of artisans are beautifying them with intricate engravings.

In "Built to Last: Reviewing a 40-Year-Old Tool," we heard one of the best hand tool stories we'd ever heard, courtesy of David Waelder.

This year we got a reminder that splines used to be physical objects. Yep, this is how you drew large curves back in the day.

Just what the heck is this thing? Tool correspondent David Frane came across this cast-iron bamboo-splitting tool from Japan. Click the link to see how it works.

We spotted this crazy-looking Chinese foot-powered lathe with a centuries-old design. This is another one where you've got to click the linke and check out the video. It's like a cross between a lathe and an elliptical machine!

Another forgotten tool was this 18th-Century French furniture-polishing object, resurrected by furniture maker Don Williams. Now that you can buy them again, the polissoirs have proven popular.

This year we saw a rash of unique hammer designs, from old-school Latthammers to Fiskars' modern IsoCores to Estwing's totally newfangled, multi-material deadblow AL-Pro.

Speaking of hammers, we also saw this pair of hammer-proof gloves. We think they should call them "No More Ouchies" and market them to macho contractors.

When it comes to hand tool workbenches, vises are a virtue. We took a look at Benchcrafted's drool-worhty, top-of-the-line vise hardware.

We spotted this insanely dense antique tool storage cabinet. The darn thing was listed for $150,000 (including the tools) at auction.

Most of us learned to use power tools at ID school, but design schools seem to place little emphasis on hand tools these days. Some of you may have no experience with them at all. In order to fill that gap, this year we brought on two experts in their use. Joel Moskowitz of Gramercy Tools shares his weekly thoughts in his "Tools & Craft" section, while Shannon Rogers, founder of the Hand Tool School, now has a Core77 series that we've cleverly named "Hand Tool School." Check 'em both out!

Fireworks are illegal in NYC, so only city-sanctioned bodies host pyrotechnic shows during the holidays, and at just a handful of locations. In Hawaii, however, residents take matters into their own hands. Look at this footage shot on New Years Eve from a car traveling along Hawaii's H1 highway shortly after midnight (language NSFW):

Riddled with resorts though it is, it seems impossible that all of those fireworks are coming from organized bodies. I inquired with some Hawaiian acquaintances and learned that each year, people all over the state stock up on fireworks, then simultaneously launch them in a spirit of community, illegal though it may be. This drone footage gives you an idea of how wonderfully distributed the show really is:

The beautiful show, which authorities have never quite been able to clamp down on, does come at a cost. This year a woman was killed and a man critically injured in a fireworks-related accident, and as Hawaii's KHON News reports, ambulance crews are stretched dangerously thin on the holiday; from midnight to 1am alone, Oahu's 18 ambulances scrambled to cover 28 calls, and ultimately answered over 170.

Honolulu councilwoman Ann Kobayashi feels that the only solution to safety must be, like the shows themselves, distributed. "We can't really legislate people into being responsible," she said. "We all have to be responsible for our children, for ourselves."

Become a Champion with us: Just like the way our fighters prepare with their training partners to be the very best, here at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) we encourage that type of teamwork. A UFC employee, like a mixed martial artist, is well-rounded and willing to

Of all the creative industries spread across the world, it is the Japanese advertising industry that has a lock on over-the-top bizarre. Here the Japanese Commercials in HD YouTube channel has put together a supercut of 2016's best:

I've been to my share of brainstorming meetings, but I absolutely cannot picture what one of these ad agency briefings must be like.

Tough for me to pick a fave, but I dug the Golden Retriever spot for Amazon. You?

With a dismal 16% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the Assassin's Creed movie has to be one of 2016's biggest stinkers. But this "paper parkour" animation created to promote the movie is pretty awesome:

That was executed by illustrator/graphic designer Serene Teh. Some of you might find it similar to PES' 2016 Emmy-nominated animated spot for Honda, but Teh has been working on the technique since at least six years ago, when she gained the attention of Saatchi & Saatchi with this clip she created:

Lastly I'll say, Ms. Teh, your last name is burdensome to type in an era of autocorrect.

Our goal was to translate JL Audio’s core attributes into and amplifier product portfolio that would not only amaze current brand loyalists but also attract new adoptees. The auto amplifier market is very competitive and highly saturated where high quality design reflecting state of the art technology in an understated but powerful way is rarely seen but much needed.

The development of hemp in the United States has been ridiculous, because idiot politicians thought it was the same thing as marijuana (it's not) and banned it back in 1970 as a Schedule 1 drug. In actuality, though hemp is a variety of Cannabis sativa, it has less than a 0.3% concentration of THC, the psychoactive ingredient that you need to get stoned. (Marijuana has a 5%-plus concentration.)

Nowadays, thankfully, open-minded materials scientists and builders have discovered hemp's value as an eco-friendly building material. As host of the UK's Grand Designs TV show for nearly two decades, British designer Kevin McCloud has seen his fair share of building techniques and materials. Here he explains why he finds hemp's benefits unmatchable:

Here is how hempcrete can be integrated into established building methods:

While the video above speaks of using recycled plastic forms, the DIY'er can create their own forms out of plain ol' OSB, and you can also see here how easy the stuff is to mix:

Here's LEED Green Associate Joni Lane giving a TED Talk about how hempcrete is a vastly more healthful building material than the conventional alternatives:

And here's Clarke Snell, former managing director of the Nauhaus Institute explaining how walls made of hempcrete deal with water:

By the bye, in the second-to-last presentation above Lane references the illegality of hemp manufacture in the U.S. Thankfully things have begun to change since then; according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, as of August of last year "at least 16 states have legalized industrial hemp production for commercial purposes and 20 states have passed laws allowing research and pilot programs." Next we have to wait for federal law to catch up; the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015, a bill introduced two years ago, appears to have stalled in Washington.

Our President-Elect has stated he'd like to do away with numerous regulations on businesses. Let's hope that hemp shows up on his radar.

We talk about storing data in the cloud, but Amazon is looking into storing physical goods up there. The company has filed a patent for an "Airborne fulfillment center utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles for item delivery:" In essence, the scheme is to have warehouses suspended from blimps, floating at 45,000 feet (which is higher than/out of the way of commercial flight paths) over metropolitan areas and loaded up with delivery drones. 

When a customer orders something, it's attached to a drone, then dropped out of the sky.

The UAV may be deployed from the AFC and descend under the forces of gravity toward a delivery location using little to no power. Only as the UAV approaches earth does it need to fully engage the UAV motors to maintain flight and complete delivery of the item.

After dropping off the package, the drone doesn't fight its way back up to 45,000 feet; Amazon reckons this would not be "an efficient use of power," so instead the drone flies off to a "replenishment shuttle." This would be a smaller airship "that is configured to transport inbound items (e.g., UAVs, inventory, workers, supplies, fuel) to the AFC and retrieve outbound items (e.g., overstock inventory, transshipments, workers, waste) from the AFC."

As crazy as this plan sounds, the patent filing makes a lot of good points as to why it should be implemented. The airship isn't tethered to a fixed location so can float around as needed or to avoid inclement weather. The company also envisions stocking them up over "temporal events" like football games, where they'd be loaded up with relevant product (sports paraphernalia, food products). And with the airship system, "items may be delivered within minutes of a user placing an order."

Ironic things I'd like to order from an AFC: Led Zeppelin's eponymous first album, a book on the Hindenburg disaster and of course, a drone.

I'm an industrial designer by trade, so making models and prototypes is big part of what I do. I have amassed many tools over the years including a laser cutter, a couple of CNC routers and several 3D printers. I also have the usual complement of shop tools, as well as somewhat exotic equipment like a pressure chamber and a curing oven. It's fair to say that I can pretty much fabricate anything out of any material using the various tools and techniques at my disposal.

One fabrication method that I've relied on heavily in the years I've been doing design work is vacuum forming. Way before there was 3D printing, back when everything had to be made with a steady hand, it was my secret-sauce technique for making plastic parts.

That said, I was always on the lookout for ways to make work go faster. I still remember how I was instantly enamored with 3D printing (or 'rapid prototyping' as it was called then) when I saw it for the first time on Discovery Channel. I was the guy you'd expect to rush out and buy a 3D printer when prices started to drop. But I didn't. I was never impressed by the output quality of filament-type 3D printers, and stereolithography printers were still expensive then.

I caved in 2013 and bought myself a Makerbot Replicator. And boy, did I love it. I was kicking myself for not getting one sooner. It wasn't that the quality exceeded my expectations—it didn't. Prints always require some kind of post-processing. But by buying the machine I had inadvertently given myself the precious gift of time—yes, time. The 3D printer became a shop assistant that churned out parts at my bidding, leaving me free to do other tasks. That robotic minion was soon joined by two more. They all could work 24/7. And none of them took a salary.

Finding creative uses for 3D printing improved my productivity. One of these uses brought me full circle: making vacuum forming tools/molds. 3D printing allows for complex geometry, but print speeds could be excruciatingly slow. Vacuum forming is fast, but without a tool, it is useless. The two technologies working in tandem, though, was a dream. Print the tool on a 3D printer and make the final parts on the vacuum former—it was a match made in nerd heaven.

3D printers have become ubiquitous thanks to their media abetted popularity. Vacuum forming, in contrast, remains rather esoteric. It doesn't help that vacuum forming technology has pretty much languished, untouched by innovative thinking. I thought I could change that by bringing fresh ideas to the table, or rather, the tabletop.

Mechanical design

Handlebar for one handed operation

LCD Interface

Built-in polymer profiles for precision material heating

Large forming area

Accomodates up to 2mm thick materials

Intergrated vacuum system

Super strong vacuum for deep draws and fine details

Initially offered as a contract to hire position, the company seeks a motivated, organized, resourceful and artistic individual to fill a challenging position within our communications department. The interactive designer must specialize in the creation of intelligent and visual arresting presentations for use at various conferences, training workshops, and

It's been a fun if contentious year in bike design. 2016 saw still more hubless bicycles, futuristic e-bike concepts that defy human nature, with room left over for good old fashioned bike porn. But our most popular bike stories this year ranged more critical, more humorous, and more genuinely surprising.

Our top cycling story was the announcement of Ikea's surprising and surprisingly ridable flat packed bike, the Sladda. While the weird little belt drive commuter hasn't shot to the top of many bike aficionado's gift lists, it appears to be hitting the introductory market as expected. It also hasn't totally destroyed local bike shops. Maybe the cheerful little IKEA instructions guy wasn't as good as real mechanics at explaining the difference between a tire and a wheel?

On the other hand, another beloved bike moment suggests knowing your bike anatomy might be overrated. Italian product designer Gianluca Gimini turned millions of heads with his sweet and hilarious renderings of bicycles drawn by people with wonderfully imperfect memory of bike mechanics. The outcome was Velocipedia, a series of lovingly interpreted and surprisingly believable nonsense bikes that even Edward Gorey would be jealous of.

But being savvy on bike anatomy isn't always lighthearted. This year saw Ms. Femke van den Driessche convicted in the first case of "Mechanical Doping" during a heated race at the 2016 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships. It was a particularly intriguing event, in part because it marked the first ever instance of proven mechanical cheating, and because it brought interesting (and amoral) products like the Vivax Assist into more common design conversation. A sad but interesting turn for competitive sports but an interesting puzzle for bike assist engineering. 

Vivax Assist

The most hands-on bike moment of 2016 was the return of the Bamboobee build-it-yourself bamboo bike kit, which promised the BIYer a bike frame in under five hours (among a lot else). The update included a more flexibly oriented jig, and with more potential frame styles. Does it live up to the (expensive and labor intensive) DIY hype? I still don't know, because if you're smart enough to do carbon layups you probably don't actually need this kit. But it does look like a mega fun present.

To cap us off is my favorite bike discovery of the year, the Strandbeest Bike by Blaine Eliott and his partner JP. What started as a hapless but useful single speed went through a series of bewildering and unnecessary modifications to produce something that's fascinating to look at, but terrifying to use on the road. At this point this feels a bit like a metaphor for the year, but I'm still impressed as hell. 

Here's hoping that 2017 has even weirder, cooler, and safer(?) rides ahead for us.

Let's get into table design for a second. If you look at your average dining table, you'll see most have aprons. The aprons prevent wracking and, in the case of solid wood tops, help prevent the tops from warping.

Look underneath the average dining table and you'll see the aprons are often connected to some type of corner braces. These are to keep them square and provide a solid connection with the legs.

Aprons and braces, necessary though they may be, require more raw material, are extra things for a manufacturer to ship and extra things for a consumer to assemble, not to mention pay for. So Ikea has done away with both aprons and braces with their Lisabo line.

Here's how they did this. Remember the funky wedge dowels Ikea's prototype engineers came up with a couple of years ago?

Ikea designers Knut and Marianne Hagberg took the wedge dowel concept and applied it to the legs of the Lisabo series of tables and desks.

By CNC-milling striations into the top of the leg, and a corresponding shape into the underside of the tabletop at the four corners, the Hagbergs created a leg that simply slides into place and locks in with a single screw holding a wedge.

This wedged, striated joint provides enough registered contact area to preclude wracking, meaning aprons aren't required. Since there's no need for aprons, there's no need for corner braces. And the consumer can pop the legs in quickly, which is a boon not only the first time they do it, but anytime they move.

And the table's pretty easy on the eyes, too. The Hagbergs used the old design trick of chamfering the underside; since the tabletop's got to be thick enough to accommodate the joint, chamfering the edges provides the illusion of thinness to the top, making the table look airy.

Anyways, this is just an example of how prototype engineers seeking a faster joint connector ended up influencing and advancing the design, both aesthetically and from a UX perspective, of a dining table.

Topo Designs, LLC is looking for an experienced Product Design Manager to lead and manage Topo designers (apparel, accessories, bag). Experience/ Education Requirements: BA or BS degree in Apparel, Textiles, Design (Apparel) or related field and 5+ year’s relevant and progressive experience 5-7

Ah, January. The season for yoga class Groupons and vague promises to improve. For many, cutting down on nicotine will be on the to-do-better roster this year, and if you've ever tried to quit smoking (or hoped someone you care about would) you know the intense sensations the process can inspire. For most folks, there's a lot of irritation, anger, and complex negotiation involved, and the colorful folks at Fragmento Universo have interpreted those into visual. This sleek little concept video is titled Tabakskollegium (roughly "Tobacco Culture") lashing back. 

The creative studio's directors, Christian Baumgartner and Tessa Dóniga, wanted the piece to speak to the lethality of the habit. They note that smoking is the leading avoidable cause of death (though I think that might technically go to indoor wood smoke exposure). They hope the piece will ignite some retaliatory and distancing feelings around cigarettes in the real world.

I wouldn't say carting a blender or mousetraps around on the daily is a strong quitting plan, but it's a nice visual at least. More of the studio's flashy, fun and tongue in cheek projects here.

I've been looking through the portfolio of Wintercheck Factory and I like what I see. Designers Kristen Wentrcek and Andrew Zebulon Williams work with a multitude of materials and manufacturers, and I dig the exploratory nature of this; rather than doing things in just wood or just metal or just plastic, they're all over the map (quite literally in terms of suppliers) and this speaks of both healthy curiosity and possessing the bravery to experiment.

Their 102 Closet, perfect for singles living in studio apartments, was the first piece that caught my eye:

The 102 Closet is made with heavy gauge chrome-plated steel and mounted on 5" swiveling casters. In addition to the traditional hanging garment rack, a deep wire cage drawer and removable solid wood bin are provided as enclosed storage for small or folded items. The solid wood bin is made in house by WINTERCHECK FACTORY®.

The steel structure of this design is made in California. Our fabricator manufactures a variety of industrial tubular steel products and dominates the coin-laundry market. Their products can be easily identified by a yellow tag which states that the product is made in the U.S.A.

I'm not crazy about the exposed planer marks on the wood, but I realize I'm armchair quarterbacking here.

Their 501 Chair, made from cast polyurethane rubber and Corian, looks like it came from a Dutch design museum:

Their 101 Side Table looks sturdy and substantial without being clunky and intrusive:

The 101 Side Table is made from 18 gauge steel and is powder coated. The table features adjustable screw feet and a small cutout for cords. A removable utility box sits below for additional storage.

Our manufacturer fabricates the side table alongside a 92-year-old line of steel factory equipment. Founded by two brothers following their service in the first World War, the company has carried on through four generations, working from the same warehouse space in Chicago. Their original 1920s product line included a bench leg, which kickstarted the business and soon became a staple in US Army warehouses and factories.

Their 104 Desk moves to fiberglass:

The 104 Desk is comprised of an industrial fiberglass top and steel legs that are powder coated, have adjustable feet and are removable. The desktop is equipped with a grommet for cord access and the back rail is slightly curved to provide a resting spot for pens.

Our manufacturer fabricates the 104 Desk using a hand lay-up process. This is the oldest and simplest method for making fiberglass designs with an open mold. This process is used for lower volumes and is more labor intensive but incredibly strong; it's frequently used to make boat hulls. Layers of fiberglass are piled onto a custom mold and then a resin is poured on top, a process which must be monitored so that entrapped air can be squeezed out as the resin begins to cure and harden.

The MCM-ish 103 Chair brings us to leather:

Made in solid oak, the 103 Chair features Italian leather cushions with welting and button details. WINTERCHECK FACTORY® hand picks each hide and uses a supple, natural-finish leather that has been lightly waxed for durability. The steel legs are powder coated, have adjustable feet and are removable.

The fabricator for this design is located in North Carolina and specializes in military and healthcare furniture using a flat line system. This means that 100% of their materials are used and no waste is produced. Since the plant uses only oak and maple, any leftover wood from one line of furniture can be gathered and reallocated to another project seamlessly.

In short, I like the duo's willingness to experiment and how they share details of their manufacturers' stories. And their emphasis on Made in the U.S.A. is encouraging.

Check out more of Wintercheck Factory's stuff here.

We developed the Hilljak Quickie Loader Gen 2 product line and ramped up production. Quickie Loader is a performance magazine loader featuring an ergonomic design that saves your fingers from the pain of loading your magazines and offers superior comfort, speed and design. Hilljak Quickie Loaders are made for leading firearms and used by competition shooters, plinksters, preppers, law enforcement, CCW training and our fastest growing target customer - women shooters.

I've been looking through the Diderot Encyclopedia (1751- 1777) doing research on workbenches. I've found lots of images of workbenches, all similar yet different; each was designed to help execute a specific trade. The only common thread I see is they all seem to use a lot of holdfasts.

Anyway, before I expound on these, I thought it might be fun to have a little contest. Here are seven photos of workbenches, and beneath that I'll list twelve trades (five extras just to confuse you). See if you can match the trade to the bench, and provide the list in the comments.

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B

C

D

E

F

G

Sorry for the distortion in the photos! The pages weren't flat, the workbenches presumably were.

Trades:

1 - Box Making
2 - Cabinetmaking and Marquetry
3 - Carpentry (as distinct from joinery)
4 - Carriage Making
5 - Case Making
6 - Chest, Case, and Trunk Making
7 - Clog Making (wooden shoes)
8 - Framing (pictures)
9 - Joinery, Cabinetmaking and Marquetry
10 - Musical Instrument Making (Lutherie)
11 - Wood Engraver
12 - Sawyer (lumber trades)

I'll sound off on the benches in the next entry.

When it comes to space efficiency, it doesn't make much sense to choose a circle as the shape of a cabinet or a worksurface. But I'm admittin' to being smitten by this Pill Wall Mounted Desk:

The Pill Wall Desk is designed by Lithuanian-based Emko, a furniture and home accessory design company that takes inspiration from the intersection of Northern Scandinavian, Western European and Eastern Russian cultural spaces to create products for the modern home.

Multifunctional and stylish, the desk aims to provide the cure for cluttered living spaces while also offering an innovative way of creating a compact workspace. The round cabinet can be installed on a wall at any height, to suit the needs of the owner.

Its interior features display and storage spaces, with an adjustable shelving system and sockets. Thanks to its ingenious and adaptable design, it can be used as a working desk, bar, storage space, or bookshelf. Available here in white with a white or black back, the Pill Wall Desk also comes in black, blue and yellow.

Via Gear Hungry