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Velvet Underground – Sunday Morning – Laser Cut Wood Record from Amanda Ghassaei on Vimeo.

3D printers have barely been around for five minutes and already sick fucks across the globes are utilising them to make not only working firearms but models of real live foetuses. So it’s good to know that some more tasteful types are exploring more pleasant applications of the technology, such as these wooden records.

Designer Amanda Ghassael showed taste as well as impressive technical skills by cutting The Velvet Underground’s ‘Sunday Morning’ onto Maple (weirdly, we’ve coincidentally listened to that album about five times in the last twelve hours. Although not on wood, admittedly). Below, you can also hear a wooden version of Radiohead’s ‘Idioteque’ too. Admittedly, they do both sound pretty shit, but I’d rather live in a world full of slightly ropey Velvets records than a world of gun-toting foetuses. But maybe that’s just me…

Radiohead – Idioteque – Laser Cut Wood Record from Amanda Ghassaei on Vimeo.