Billy Gordon's Giant Match

Long (8 feet to be precise) story short: It consisted of 20,000 ordinary 2.25-inch-long wooden kitchen matches scaled up with digital calipers.

The giant match head was made from the heads of 15,000 cardboard safety matches.

The huge strike-anywhere tip employed the tips of 250 wooden kitchen matches snipped off and then glued on top, one by one, with exquisite care since the slightest impact could have set the whole thing off.

You can build one of your own by following the detailed instructions here.