How are toothpick's manufactured ?

Answer 1

Toothpick makers get wood grain into their toothpicks by the simple expedient of not taking it out in the first place. Remarkable as it may seem in this synthetic age, the modern toothpick is made out of unreconstituted virgin white birch, just as its predecessors have been since after the Civil War, when Charles Forster invented the automatic toothpick-making machine.

Toothpick manufacturers (most of them are in Maine) steam birch logs to make them easier to cut, then "veneer" them, which means they peel each log into a thin sheet, sort of like unrolling a roll of paper towels. Flat toothpicks are simply stamped out of the sheets, while round toothpicks are first cut into oversized blanks, then fed into a milling machine called a "rounder," which grinds them down into little javelins, as you put it. No reconstituted toothpick has ever been made that matches birch for strength and low cost.

You see plastic toothpicks occasionally, but they are hard on the gums and periodontists discourage their use--as do the makers of wooden toothpicks, not surprisingly.

Answer 2

At a toothpick factory I guess!

Answer 3

You start with a very big tree and a very big axe, slowly work yourself down to a small piece of wood and a small axe, and finally a stick and a craft knife.

You have no idea how underappreciated toothpickcutters are!

Answer 4

The plastics ones are Injection moulded. I don't know about the wooded ones.

Answer 5

little tiny elves go around with hatcits chipping away at trees i know this coz my cosin is one on fo them

Answer 6

With a very small lathe.

Answer 7

Watch how its made on discovery channel

Answer 8

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Answer 9

on a mini lathe

Answer 10

from baby trees