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Recipe

Sawdust / coffee puck

A dense wood-like puck made from fine powder pressed with a hot binder. Close to pressed MDF but compostable.

Every A New Field recipe has been run in a domestic kitchen or community hall. Read the safety notes before you start and adapt for your venue.

What you’ll make

Warm brown, hard, close grain, sandable.

Flexible slots (flex around your material)

  • Filler

    Cellulose-rich powderLignin-rich wood300g

    Fine, dry, ground-up plant matter. Acts as filler and body in composites and doughs. Stiff, dense wood particles. Holds shape when compressed.

    Examples Coffee, sawdust, bark, fine pine cone

Fixed ingredients

  • Starch or gelatine glue · 100ml

Equipment

  • Press (two flat boards and clamps)
  • baking paper
  • oven.

Refinements and variations

  • Add iron-and-tannin ink for a near-black puck.

Source notes

Emerging studio practice; common in Materiom-adjacent sketches.