{"id":166895,"date":"2023-07-05T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/3d-printed-wood-furniture-could-ship-flat-then-dry-into-shape"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:22:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T16:22:51","slug":"3d-printed-wood-furniture-could-ship-flat-then-dry-into-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/3d-printed-wood-furniture-could-ship-flat-then-dry-into-shape","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed wood furniture could ship flat, then dry into shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kVWXHlJlcPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new way of 3D printing wood that takes advantage of warping could change how we build things in the future \u2014 an innovation that could potentially save us all time and money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Wood is made of fibers that absorb moisture like a sponge. If lumber isn\u2019t dried properly, the wood will eventually shrink \u2014 bending or twisting in different directions depending on the orientation of the fibers.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s called \u201cwarping,\u201d and it\u2019s usually something we try to avoid \u2014 a warped door won\u2019t close properly, and a warped floor will look wavy rather than flat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way of 3D printing wood that takes advantage of warping could change how we build things in the future \u2014 an innovation that could potentially save us all time and money. The challenge: Wood is made of fibers that absorb moisture like a sponge. If lumber isn\u2019t dried properly, the wood will eventually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}