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With LAYWOO-D3 Filament, You Can 3D Print in Wood. Kind of.

By Rain Noe - February 26, 2013

in Materials | Digital Fabrication

Yeah, so this is nuts....

Thingiverse denizen Kaipa has created a partially wooden filament for 3D printers. Called LAYWOO-D3, the stuff is 40% recycled wood with the rest of it being a binding polymer. It's flexible but prints without warping and the stuff even smells like wood. It comes out light-colored at 180 Celsius and darker at 245, so you can vary the tone. And after being printed, the resultant object can reportedly be worked with woodworking tools.

MakerBot users, don't get too excited; for now the stuff is only compatible with RepRaps.

LAYWOO-D3 is for sale here, by a company called FormFutura. Despite the exciting nature of this development, they've managed to create the world's dullest video:

Just goes to show the future never turns out like you'd think it would. Imagine someone coming up to you ten years ago and saying "Someday, you'll be able to 3D print a wood-like material. And it will be more boring than watching paint dry."

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jay

11 years ago

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talk about watching paint dry
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MakeTank

11 years ago

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If only it were possible to communicate that wood smell in a blog post... :)
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James Harbal

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If u dont believe in the wood filament, try looking at this thingiverse page: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:51775
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