Have you built something original out of wood and are you proud of it? Take part in the #felderchallenge!

Felder Gruppe Austria invites all woodworking enthusiasts and innovators to enter the second edition of the Felder Challenge! So, if you have built something yourself that you are proud of and consider your project to be unique, daring and inspiring for those eager to come up with something new in woodworking, the challenge #felderchallenge comes just right for you! The prizes are substantial - the grand prize is the Hammer HNC 47.82 CNC router, which we've also written about here - one more argument to sign up.

What should you do?

1. Submit photos or videos of your project,

2. Accompany the above with the project plan and a brief description of the project,

3. Post your project on your social media channels such as Facebook or Instagram with #felderchallenge and tag the @Felder Group International page.

How do you send your images, project and description? Go to the competition page - www.felder-group.com/en-us/felderchallenge - where you'll discover the Participate now (Join now). If you access it, a page will open where you can fill in your personal details and upload all the information related to the project. Once you have filled in the fields (be careful with the ones marked with *, they are mandatory), click on Participate now and you are automatically entered in the competition. That's all you have to do! The deadline for registration is 9 June 2021 at the latest.

The winners will be chosen by a jury of experts and the feldergroup.com community. Prizes will be awarded to the 10 best projects from all entries registered up to and including 9 June. Come on, get brave and enter! Even if you won't be among the 10 winners, Felder promises each participant who accepts the challenge a Felder Group goodie-bag.

Competition prizes

But let's get back to the 10 awards.

The big winner will receive a Hammer HNC 47.82 CNC router

2nd place - a banzic Felder FB 510

3rd place - a portable machine for quick application of edgebanding on straight and curved Felder Forka 200 Eco plus

The 4th, 5th and 6th place winners will win a No1 toolbox and the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th place winners will each receive a Japanese handsaw.

More information about the competition, as well as an entry link for participants, can be found at here.

#felderchallenge is not the first edition

More than 600 DIY projects by female and male woodworkers from all over the world were registered for the 2020 edition of the competition. Felder Gruppe's team of experts carefully analysed each project and selected the 50 best projects for the final round of voting. The winners of the 10 awards were chosen by the Felder Gruppe Community, with over 2000 votes cast. You can see here winning projects in 2020.

If you have a project you think is special, don't wait any longer. Sign up, you have nothing to lose!