3D BEST Q Real Wood PLA 1.75mm 3D Printer Filament, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.03 mm, 1KG Spool, 30% Real Wood-infill (Wood)

This is my go-to for printing wood PLA. I've tried countless brands of PLA, of which 3 or 4 of them are wood/PLA mixtures. 3D Best-Q takes the top spot in the wood category. It performs just as well as the other brands - good adhesion, no-tangle spools, strong prints, but at a much more affordable price (the least expensive I've found on Amazon, by a few dollars at least and by around $15 at most). Another bonus is the 30% wood content, compared to the usual 20% or lower found in other brands, allowing this filament to be sanded, carved, cleaned up, and all the post-processing with significantly more ease than standard PLA or wood PLA with lower wood content. Though Hatchbox is always my fallback for standard PLA, I've found 3D Best-Q is easier to manage and has as consistently strong prints as Hatchbox Wood PLA. I left a spool out for months in a bedroom with fluctuating temperature - the hottest of summer - and I still managed to get awesome prints (maybe I got lucky!)I prefer to print very large prints (talking 4 feet or taller) that are completely hollow. While standard PLA becomes a bit brittle and incredibly easy to snap with only one perimeter/shell, Best-Q is much more forgiving and slightly flexible (not that you can take it and twist it around, but squeezing it/applying a bit of force won't cause it to crack).As far as print settings go, printing on my FLSUN QQS, the recommended default 220C extruder and 50C bed temps work well, but bumping the bed temp up to 65C for printing very thin supports helps with adhesion. You absolutely MUST use a 0.5 mm nozzle or larger - this doesn't apply to just Best-Q wood filament, but wood filament from ANY brand. Though I've only ever tried with 0.6 and never had anything close to a clog, I've heard horror stories of those printing with stock 0.4 mm nozzles and running into a bevy of problems. Nozzles are very affordable - you can buy a 24 pack here on Amazon for less than $7. I also tend to print everything (supports, perimeters, and infill on the rare occasion that I use infill) at 45 mm/s.All in all, I see no reason to go with any other brand. Great prints, great quality, and more affordable than others, which is a huge plus when I need to order more than 3 or 4 rolls at a time.

I was hesitant to try this because of the need to get a .6 nozzle. I am a novice and have not done enough to have changed nozzles or settings related to that aspect. I did try printing it with my .4 nozzle anyway.The .4 clogged up about every 5 hours of printing. When you do get a clog, its a chore to take the hot end apart and clean it correctly.The print quality is very good with the .4. There is quite a bit of stringing when you have retraction turned on. Yeah I know, it should be the opposite.I bit the bullet and tried the .6 nozzle and WOW! The print quality was amazing. Also adhesion became perfect. I've included pics. I do get a couple lines that fail to adhere or break during the brim print, I use 10 lines of brim. They are always in the first 2 or 3 lines of brim and have never occurred later. You can see from one of the pics what I am describing.The strength is excellent. You can see from what I print that the walls are fairly thin. They have all the solidity I need at only 20% infill. I could probably go lower, but why break what ain't fixed.....The warmth required for printing at my desired 100mm/sec was 210. 200 just wasn't hot enough to keep the filament fluid for that speed.There are literally no layer lines visible. No sanding done on the picture.I actually stained these clips in Minwax Red Mohagony and I was very happy with the richness of the color. I was skeptical that stains would be absorbed by this filament. I was happily proven wrong.I have done about 120 hours of printing with this filament and I will state this emphatically! I LOVE THIS FILAMENT! IT MET OR EXCEEDED ALL OF MY EXPECTATIONS!I will without a doubt but more in the next week and I recommend this filament to everyone.I do have one recommendation to the manufacturer. Its very cheap, I would include a .6 nozzle with every reel. That way the bulk of your customers would not have to source that product seperately.I am going to do a how to video and upload that as well

I've got this filament dialed in as far as temps and flowrate goes, and I'm happy with the results. It's definitely something a bit different when it comes to texture and color. I've only trying finishing it a couple times with very light sanding and darker stain, and the results are decent. I have been using a stainless steel 0.4mm nozzle for printing with this filament have had no issues during prints and the nozzle seems to be holding up fine despite the more abrasive nature of this filament. Looks good when printing medium-sized planting pots with it. I would buy again which is saying something since I did not care as much for the 3D BEST Q regular PLA filament.

On my stock Ender 5 Pro, it really likes:- 208c hot-end- 50c bed- Print at 50mm/s for 0.2mm layers using the stock 0.4mm nozzle.* My print-bed is a bit tore up, and this had trouble sticking, so I have been using it with rafts enabled in my slicer, which causes prints to take longer, and use more filament, but they turn out so nice I don't mind. I may be able to avoid using rafts if I ran it hotter, but then I'd have ooze/stringing to deal with, so I'd rather use rafts and get amazingly clean prints that don't need post-print clean-up.* Layer adhesion is awesome, yet the rafts and supports break off super-clean. I just printed a set of chess pieces with it, and they turned out quite a bit better than those I printed with regular black or white PLA.* It doesn't have the nice wood smell while printing that some other wood filaments I've used create, but the end products turn out fantastic.* I haven't printed anything that needed sanding/painting, so can't comment on the behavior there.* I tried running it cooler, but had clogs until I got up to 208, and at 208, I have ZERO ooze/stringing, but still great layer adhesion. If you up the temp and still clog, slow down your printing, so the heater has more time with the incoming cold filament (I normally print at 90mm/s for PLA, but print this wood at 50mm/s).

Very good product, adheres to the bed very well.

Prints well and does look a bit like wood. Would work well as a contrasting colour to a darker wood filament. Great potential. The only thing I would say is that its quite a soft result compared to standard pla. I guess it's easy to compress the wood content. Nice stuff if you can get at the right price.