Folding Wood Booklet
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We designed wooden booklets that use this feature. They’re made from a beautiful birch plywood and are finished with a clear varnish. The hard wooden cover can be opened fully to the back side for comfortable holding. A tiny clamp inside, made from the same material, holds a standard A7 writing block.
The booklets come in a horizontal and vertical version.
Actually they not only look cool, it shows exactly what we think digital production is all about. By using manufacturing techniques like this it is possible to make all product features in a single production step and in one material. This cuts down production effort and logistics and makes for a beautifully simple product. Because a laser cutter is a fairly common tool products like this could be manufactured locally, all over the world. By working from sheet materials the products can also be flat-packed, saving even more resources and costs on shipping.
For us this means we can make everything in-house and we don’t need to produce in big quantities to make it affordable. This is really the power of digital manufacturing and personal fabrication.
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Wow i just love this technique, it looks so amazing.
I will definetly do one, and will try it on some things i have in mind, but problem is have no idea how this work.
Could you tell me whats the name of the technique? Or point me the direction of where to investigate so i can also do this? If you dont mind please
I've just uploaded a revised version of the drawing. I've improved the hinge to be less likely to break and cleaned up some clutter in the drawing.
Have you considered using 3D printable bindings similar to rollabind or circa discs? Could be an excellent DIY notebook kit!
Hey folks. Thank you for the comments. Actually the joint holds up well. We folded it allot and it doesn't show sings of weakness. The fold is designed in a way that a lot of small members ( in series ) a made. Each member get's a small amount of torsion, so there is not much stress on the wood.
You should respect a minimum radius when folding.
I agree this is amazing. This is the type of thing we should be using this technology to do. This could only be done with a lazer-cutter and pushing the boundaries of what we can do with the technology is bring the future to reality. I thank you for your work.
This is amazing! How resilient is the joint, do you think? Will it fail after a number of foldings?
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could this be made in acrylic sheet?