2 Years and 50,000 Shingles Later, This Man Has Created a Lovely Wooden Beetle

A labor of love and oak

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All those nerds who hot-glue gears onto stuff and call it steampunk have been outdone by a retiree in Bosnia.

Momir Bojic has put his free time to good use by detailing his Volkswagen Beetle in tiny wood shingles. (Would that make his Bug a Volkswagen Termite?) Anyway, the entire frame of the car and most of the interior are sheathed in 50,000 hand-cut wood pieces, a process that took Bojic more than two years to complete.

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