Lots of woods can be wrapped around a cylinder. I found that 1/8 basswood worked very well, and even tried .25 oak plywood. The trick is to bend it very wet and slow and then let it dry.
With this…
A while back I posted that I thought you could do a living hinge by just cutting on one side… Well I was thinking that Inkscape would be needed to layout the cuts but then I see that engrave can do both 10 Lpi and 35 Lpi and my estimate was that 35 Lpi would be needed in any case so I just do a deep engrave at 35Lpi and then cut out the design. (2 passes at 800zips, full power)
Already it is very flexible but by soaking it in alcohol hand cleaner all the burn fumes are quickly dissolved but it…
And this for thicker stuff…
I ran another experiment box. most wood would just bend if properly treated but Oak Plywood I think would provide the toughest challenge and two 180 degree bends about as tough a job as I could think of. I first tried with cutting a hole for a box lid, and also was not deep enough with the engrave, the second with no lid and almost deep enough worked out very well. It still needs to dry a bit to hold its place but I was able to get a few fair photos.
oh yes instead of grooves I made a living h…