Wednesday 4 April 2012

Experimenting with materials


I have been experimenting with the layering effect that ply materials can provide. Eseentially, these plywood's are a mixture of wood and glue, much like carbon fibre! This means that strength can be made isotropic to achieve higher strength in larger sheets across two directions (wood is traditionally anisotropic). The result... well over an hour on the lathe and many tools sharpened to cut through this resilient material.

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