3D printers are the appliance of choice for a new generation of makers keen to rapidly prototype straight from their computer. But many materials with which 3D printers can produce items have ...

Inside a workshop near Boston, a six-foot-long 3D printer is churning out furniture that looks indistinguishable from wood, built layer by layer from sawdust that otherwise would have been wasted. “We ...

A new printing system called Forust is using scrap wood to 3D print wooden objects that are as structurally sound as regular carved wood. Created by Andrew Jeffery and a team of researchers at Desktop ...

EAST PEORIA — When Robert Prunty sees a wooden stump he wonders what type of animal he could carve into it. Prunty, 65, of East Peoria said he has always been artistic and liked to draw as a youth. “I ...

Georgia Boyse has three distinct wood Santa Claus carvings, each representing a different time period in her 36 years as a wood carver. One is a small ornament, while the other is more sleek and ...

The materials you can use to produce 3D prints have exploded over the past few years. One of those materials is wood (or "wood"). Having been provided a spool of filament, I decided to put it through ...