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I hope you enjoyed this project! It took me FOREVER (although I did finish making that piece of Oak in March and then get distracted building a rocket... here's my tweet to prove the occasion ;) https://twitter.com/XylaFoxlin/status...

I will say, I edited this part out of the video to save time but I felt like the paper was not written to be replicate-able. It severely undermines the role of toluene as an aromatic solvent and says simply "The treated wood pieces were then immersed in ethanol for 5 hours to remove any remaining chemicals and then transferred to toluene so as to exchange the ethanol in the wood." I'll leave that one up to the reader :)

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