The traditional cutaway method of making wooden tubes is wasteful: to make a small diameter of wooden tube, we cut grooves in two sides of timber, glue them together to create a hollow space and rout the outer surface to create the rounded external shape.
Plytube is a new method of tubing wood, based on the cardboard packaging tube but with additional processes to harden the wood. Plytube is a wooden tube that can be fabricated to a specified diameter, thickness, colour and type of wood. It is very light, strong and long lasting and suitable for all kinds of tooling and wood finishing. Ultimately, it could also be used as an architectural material as well as for life goods.
The principle seems obvious, but it hasn't been tested with a real product before. In this case, the Plytube has been used to make a light, strong furniture series that clearly demonstrates the potential of the process. The weight of the stool is only 820g, even though it is a full-sized stool with a rigid structure, and this has implications not only for reducing the material use of the object but also for increased efficiencies in packaging and transportation.
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