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The wood that stalled the tools

It began with a silly mistake, made the laser sweat and ended up with a name that sounded exaggerated until someone tried cutting it.

This wasn't the plan

Madeira de Titanium™ didn't begin as an attempt to invent indestructible wood. It began the way many interesting things do on the workbench: a questionable decision followed by enough curiosity not to throw everything away.

The result looked like wood. Technically, it was still wood. But it stopped behaving like the lightweight wood it had been at the start.

When the time came to work it again, the laser needed everything it had. Rotary tools that normally go through craft materials without ceremony started negotiating their terms.

That's when the name stopped being just a joke.

The method stays on the workbench

This isn't an efficient, sensible or particularly tool-friendly technique. It wasn't invented for mass production either.

It exists because a mistake revealed an unexpected property and, instead of correcting the mistake, the experiment followed it to the end.

If the laser sweats, imagine the Dremel.

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