Randall Rosenthal sure has a way with wood.
An artist based in Long Island, N.Y., Rosenthal has become something of an online sensation, thanks to his jaw-dropping wood sculptures depicting objects one typically associates with being flimsy: newspapers, baseball cards and, perhaps most famously of all, money.
This week, a sculpture created by Rosenthal in 2011 of a cardboard box chock-full of cash has gone viral. "I had to pick my jaw up from the floor after I saw what this woodworker did," one stunned Twitter user wrote after seeing photographs of Rosenthal's incredible creation.
Scroll down to see it the evolution of the sculpture -- from a block of wood to a finished product so real we want to reach out and grab it.

The first step of the process, he said, was gluing three pieces of white pine together to make one solid block.





"Some of the buried ones are going to be a bigger challenge to paint than to carve," he wrote.





Rosenthal told The Huffington Post in an email this week that the "box of money" took a total of three months to complete.

"I like the feeling of driving an edge through a medium," he explained.