Wookelite? Bakewood? Carved W48.

[countryman]

Someone must have spent many hours designing and fabricating this wooden shell, handset, cradle, everything, for a German W48 phone. The base plate is original and the instrument is working according to the description.
I am not the seller, nor am I going to buy for the asked price.
Beautiful craftmanship, but very hard to find any market for such a piece.
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/altes-telefon-w48/2450237207-173-2868

[RDPipes]

As a hobbyist that craves to stay busy with a shop full of tools I can see this as a labor
of love and certainly something to keep one busy and out of trouble and off the couch for a good
while. Not my cup o tea but, I can see it was crafted very well and considering the time that went into it
I can imagine that its value is pretty close to the asking price if it were in US dollars. Sadly even when
I was making smoking pipes one never gets much for their labor.

[AL_as_needed]

Thats beautiful and looks to be a very accurate recreation in terms of the shape and dimensions. Not an easy task getting the compound curves just right. Maybe a 500 would have been easier 

Labor, specifically skilled labor, is something that is sadly over-looked and under-valued these days. True carpenters and machinists have been supplanted by cheap goods made to be replaceable, not reliable.

[countryman]

I wonder if it was actually carved the traditional way or if it was machined using a computer controlled mill?

[FABphones]

...or if it was machined using a computer controlled mill?

Repro style wooden phones have been around for quite some time and as far as I am aware are production manufactured, not hand crafted (of course there will be the exception).

There are quite a few different versions by several manufacturers, a few examples attached.

[countryman]

The upper right is a Swiss made "Trub" design phone. They're pretty rare and usually fetch a good price. The lower right IIRC was distributed by a German trading firm and was probably made in East Asia. The left one ? ? ?, I personally have this woody

[tubaman]

I have a boxed Trub but as it's pulse dialling it's not as practical as it could be nowadays.