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>>135067 Doesn't look like balsawood (which is light, but not very strong anyways) but like an ordinary wooden dowel (you know, you have two wooden parts you drill a hole in each parts, glue+dowel inside so you don't see it). But a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and in this case that would be the relatively long, thin legs: if you make the joints out of paper instead of wood, the legs will still buckle long before the stress would cause the paper cylinders to give in. You don't need added strength at the parts which aren't going to be the problem; if you use thick paper for the legs, they can be strong enough too, joints made from paper cylinders will be more than strong enough too: one part made from wood doesn't give your entire papercraft the strength of wood: and it doesn't need to be, as long as you treat it like strong paper, not solid wood.
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