Here’s a laser cutting technique that makes thin plywood ... a lattice of strips connected minimally by alternating tabs is left over. The wood is then bendable, and it must be somewhat durable ...

We’ve all probably seen wood cut with slots added to allow flexibility ... only if you have a laser cutter though. We can all dream though.

Tennessee-based Cupples’ J&J Co. has added a 50-kW Cutlite Penta with bevel laser cutting machine. It can oxygen-cut ...

Pull the file into your laser cutter software and cut. I used a 3mm MDF ... Apply the pieces to the base using wood glue. I used a paintbrush to apply the glue for the smaller pieces so there ...

Experiments were conducted using an industrial 2D flat-bed laser cutting machine featuring 4kW laser power and equipped with a multimode fiber laser source producing a top-hat intensity distribution.