welding wood!!
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- LifeisRiding
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welding wood!!
pretty cool way to make cores, with no additives.
Nidecker is supposedly using this technic on some of their cores.
looks like is take a pretty expesive and large machine to actually weld the wood, but the idea of a bond formed with only the wood and the chemicals released/created by rubbing wood together for a minute or 2 is pretty cool!
maybe one day it will become easier to do on a smaller scale..
http://ibois.epfl.ch/page12311.html
Nidecker is supposedly using this technic on some of their cores.
looks like is take a pretty expesive and large machine to actually weld the wood, but the idea of a bond formed with only the wood and the chemicals released/created by rubbing wood together for a minute or 2 is pretty cool!
maybe one day it will become easier to do on a smaller scale..
http://ibois.epfl.ch/page12311.html
yeh, nidecker is using it on one of their high-performance freeride models. if i remember correctly it was 2 years ago when they first used it. tried to get hands on some woodwelded core but neither nidecker nor the guys from the university where they invented it could/wanted to help me.
plywood freeride industries - go ply, ride wood!
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The process described sounds a lot like Friction Stir Welding. Try googling that and you'll find huge widespread applications. FSW is a newer technology that allows for pretty incredible bond strength. They've definitely made some changes to the process but some one ambitious could probably create a FSW or similar set up for wood.