The future for 1/18?...alternative to plastics: liquid wood

Yoxford · Post by **Yoxford** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:14 pm

Just in time for Christmas, German researchers (Ach der lieber! always the Germans) are ramping up a manufacturing technique for making intricate Nativity figurines, toys, and even hi-fi speaker boxes from a renewable and surprisingly versatile source: liquid wood. check it out

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28283260//w ... ?GT1=45002

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:27 pm

interesting news

pcoughran · Post by **pcoughran** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 1:55 pm

I'm sure the "treehuggers" will put an end to it as soon as they find out about it.

Panzer_M · Post by **Panzer_M** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:08 pm

well there goes the hurtgenwald just to keep you 1.18 guys happy

Dauntless · Post by **Dauntless** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:27 am

This is good news. Apparently this is derived from the waste product they usually get rid of when making paper and other products.

I wonder if it becomes brittle? Seems like it would be easier to paint than plastic.

Jesse James · Post by **Jesse James** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:41 pm

I've heard of this as well before. Indeed it's from an already made by-product. Very cool if it's durable. It says it's versatile so there's hope, but as it is toys can often deteorate over time fairly quickly, so hopefully this is indeed durable stuff... if it becomes "mainstream". Unfortunately I wouldn't count on it being used extensively right away.