Plywood and Zip-Tie Shelving
J1 Studios’ plywood and zip-tie shelving looks great and can be expanded to fit any wall.
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CNCed Child’s Climbing Wall
Christoph Schindler of Zurich’s Schindler Salmerรณ made this Fitz Roy climbing wall out a single sheet of plywood, CNCed with a mountain design. “The Fitz Roy Climbing Wall is a DIY item that makes Patagonia’s famous peak accessible for kids.” says Schindler. “We used a 2500 x 1250 x 15 mm plywood-board and painted it. […]
Love Letter to Plywood, by Tom Sachs
Sculptor Tom Sachs made this wonderful seven-and-a-half minute film about his loved for the wondrous properties of plywood.
How-To: Molded Plywood Furniture
Detailed, hands-on how-to info on a very rich manufacturing process that is rarely attempted by DIYers. Instructables user pseaton covers the process of designing and building your own molded plywood forms all the way from initial design considerations, through mold construction and veneer pre-treatment, to actually laying up the veneers and cleaning up the finished […]
Plywood Living Hinge Design for Laser Cutters
Another cool technique for your bag of CNC panel-cutting tricks. The booklets and photos shown here are from the Dutch firm Snijlab lasersnijden (which, obviously, translates as “Snijlab Laser Ninjas”). The method is kind of like kerf-bending, but the cuts go all the way through the substrate.
One-Sheet Plywood Boat – Tiny Yellow House
For this episode of “Tiny Yellow House” for Make Magazine, host Derek “Deek” Diedricksen pulls another idea from his book Humble Homes, Simple Shacks. This time, its an easy wooden boat made from little more than one sheet of plywood. More info: http://wp.me/p1CIX9-qLg
One-Sheet Plywood Staircase
I’ve always enjoyed the mental exercise of planning a piece of plywood furniture to maximize efficient use of the material in the sheet stock, so I tend to appreciate good ones when they pop up, every now and again. Here’s a nice example, a 32-inch-tall staircase, with four one-foot steps, from Instructables user Pilgrim55.
