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How-To:  Homemade Plywood

How-To: Homemade Plywood

Ron Walters makes mechanical clocks with intricate wooden parts. Recently, we linked out to his process for gluing up round wooden blanks with “ideal” grain patterns from which to cut gears to maximize their long-term environmental stability. Ron has also experimented with using traditional plywood for gears, and got interested in making his own because he couldn’t find commercial ply having the right color, grain, and quality to suit his taste…

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Rok-Bak Chair from MAKE Volume 19

How-To: Cozy Rok-Bak Chair from Single Sheet of Plywood

What can you make with a single sheet of plywood? Lots of things: a Blue Crab boat, a mini staircase, an 18′ canoe, the list goes on. One of our favorites appeared in MAKE Volume 19: the cozy Rok-Bak chair. Author Larry Cotton asked himself, “Can a chair be comfortable, look good, recline, disassemble for […]

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Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

These are are just a few of architect and artist Gregg Fleishman’s amazing “panel puzzle” designs. To left, a 2002 chair called Nebula II, and to right, a timeline showing stages in the evolution of his 1979 Lumbarest design, the first prototype of which dates to 1975. Besides furniture, Gregg also designs buildings and model vehicles using a similar body of techniques.

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July is Plywood Month

July is Plywood Month

With June behind us, we’re continuing our monthly materials theme in July with “Plywood Month.” Actually, it’s “Plywood Month” only because “Manufactured Wood Panel Month” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But it’s all fair game for this theme: MDF, particleboard, OSB, LVL, PSL, and any other alphabet-soup type panel products mostly made from cellulose. […]

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