Super Mario mosaic table

Ivan covered this found coffee-table with a pushpin Super Mario mosaic (protected by plexiglass) and painted and decorated the legs to match. Apparently pushpin mosaics are unexpectedly hard on the thumbs.

Super Mario Coffee Table (Thanks, Ivan!)

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iamcantaloupe

Oh c’mon, is having sore thumbs after pushing thousands of those things in really that surprising?

Granted, I have the advantage with double jointed thumbs, but I digress.
Anonymous

Awesome.
Anonymous

Thimbles will save your thumbs.
Anonymous

Better than poetry!
Jaimey

Very cool, though I think I’d prefer the 8-bit Mario as a table. :-)
Mitch

It would have been possible to use either a nut driver or the handle of a screwdriver that takes interchangable bits instead of pushing them in by hand.
devophill

Unless that table is covered with cork, yeah pretty thumb-shredding.
pinehead

That’s a good idea! I never would’ve thought to use push pins for that, but it seems obvious now. I wanted to do a mosaic a long time back, but it was shocking to see how expensive those little tiles can get. Something like this would be cheap and make a fun rec room table.