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Re: Best frame building material
I'll toss in a vote for plywood, not as the best all around material, but certainly as the least recognized.
Aside from being cheap, easy to manufacture, extremely forgiving yet rigid and easy to replace, it can be very aesthetically pleasing.
A concern though is that a Wooden frame can 'get in the way', since it is going to probably be bulkier and in larger pieces then anything else. You just have to get out of the mentality of using the frame as a place to bolt things and think of it more as a subsystem all it's self that has to be integrated with the others. Once you do you have something that looks more like a car (in the sense that it's a single machine and not a collection of machines) and less like a Frankenstein monster (for lack of a better term).
Yes, I can already hear the 'form follows function' crowd, but hey... I like good Nordic plywood. Theres just something about a bot with a real form instead of these extruded boxes with lexan panels. A properly done wooden frame has elegance.
-Andy A.
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