I’ve been concerned about over harvesting and the depletion of premium lumber from our Nation’s (and the world’s) forests.
I then had an idea about making a manufactured wood product out of a plentiful, renewable, resource that is generally discarded.
Fine Woodworking Magazine Subscription Insert Cards!
They would, of course, need to be oriented accurately with successive layers bricklayed, then impregnated with resin and held under pressure to form a composit construction material of high strength. I call it OSICB (Oriented Subscription Insert Card Board).
To prove the concept I’m considering a trial run using Subscription Cards from my own supply (I don’t need these cards because I am ALREADY a subscriber). I think a showy project like a full scale model of the Taj Mahal or the Hoover Dam would be nifty. It’ll take lots of cards, but hey, I’ve been a subscriber for over twenty years!
Only trouble is what do I do with all the leftover cards?
David C.
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David,
I think you're on to something. Please post a picture of your first OSICB project when it's finished!
Only trouble is what do I do with all the leftover cards?
Plant them and in a few years ya got a forest!
Ok, I'm the curious type so when i read this discussion i had to try it. I've gathered up as many cards as i can (except from popular woodworking) and glued them with plenty of yello carpenters glue and covered in wax paper and aplied tremendous clamping force with a homemade press (two boards with f-clamps). Ill post results after work tomorow(I say work, school actually but just as bad lol).
Ryan
Dang! I KNEW I shouldn't disclose product details before I made my patent filing!
:-)
David C
Don't worry the carpenters glue was deffinitely not a good choice. It hardens sorta but is still extremely damp and flexible maybe 5-minute epoxy would do better.
Ryan
you could call it "magazine insert fiberboard (MIF)"
Should make a cool turning blank also. You could mix some from your other subscriptions and embed colored ones inside B&W ones. This could make for a stunning effect in a turned piece. These will be much thicker than just thin ones for models, so I don't see that there will be any left over cards.
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