zaxis
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I’ve a good idea for those fair phone cases. I’ve printed a test case in lay wood. Feels very cosy and smells like wood. I think the fair phone community will love these cases.
My problem is, the case is so soft when you print the upper cutout (see second photo) it bends and then you have problems with printing.
I only have STL files and it is a little bit complicated to change something on the design.
Solution is some kind of break out part, to stabilize the opening. Lay wood you can cut with a knife without problems.
I also tried to print up side down, but this makes the same problem.
The other thing is, you have to do some cleaning of the part, it is neary impossible to get super clean prints with lay wood.
You have to clean the print. For awesome look, you need to sandpaper all high parts, so you get slightly lighter color and it looks more 3 dimensional.
Also the material is much more expensive than PLA. So the price should be higher. I think 16€ for the printing hub is ok for this print.
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Looks great, do you think people would want wooden phone cases? I myself would love one.
Ah this is so cool!
Acctually, this is exactly the same problem I have on my ‘normal’ PLA (see this post). Any ideas how to fix this?
key23d
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Hi zaxis,
a very good idea! I will go and try to print one for my iPhone 
!
It is not easy to print with LayWood though! I will let you know how it went.
Kind regards, Guy Janssen
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key23d
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Hi zaxis,
it turned out to be very very flexible 
! 220 celsius at 20 mm/s bottom and 50 mm/s the rest.
It looks nice though but it will not stay on the phone.
I am trying to print one with LayBrick right now and I think that will be a little bit better.
Keep you posted,
Kind regards, Guy
key23d
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one double and forgot this one
key23d
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Hi zaxis,
I printed my case in LayBrick bur the result is not as good as I thought it would be.
Maybe the temp s still to low; I started with 220 and I raised it to 225 at the 3rd layer.
It is only one mm thin so that might also be the problem. When taking it of the bed one side came loose 
!
It looks pretty good on the phone though! Maybee I should make the walls 1.5 or 2 mm thick and raise the temperature a little.
I will try when I have some more time.
How are you coming along with the wood??
By the way, I am printing this on my Utimaker Original because I don’t want to clog the nozzle of my UM2’s.
Kind regards, Guy
zaxis
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Hello Guy,
I tried a lot with lay wood. iPhone case designs are to weak for this material. The fairphone case design is perfekt for the flexible material.
Laybrick I think same problem, with the fairphone case it would work. With normal iPhone case design you break of the walls.
