Review on 🎋 Enhanced Wood Bamboo 3D Printing Filament by AMOLEN by Tyler Gannamani

I'm not new to 3D printing nor new to wood filament. I've had good luck with Hatchbox and Sunlu as I've printed large projects from both. The woman wanted to make 12 decorative pieces for her project and really wanted a darker wood thread. I tried to persuade her to buy a sunroof box but she just didn't like the lighter color and she definitely didn't want to mess with stains. That's why we bought this. First a coil. It printed well enough that I figured I could adjust the profile, so we ordered 5 more. I've never had such inconsistent filament. It's overextrusion and then underextrusion in the same print, and forget about changing the spool. You should treat it like a new thread that you have never used before. You have to keep looking and with these prints for 14 hours, it's just exhausting. I increased and decreased the flow by 5% during printing to keep it somewhere near a good setting. Keep in mind that I print the same design 12 times, each time using almost half a spool of filament. 300 x 300 x 14mm means plenty of time to sit and watch the extrusion. And after 12 of them I couldn't get a steady flow. It is everywhere. A previous review I read called it picky. This is an understatement. Color is great, adhesion is great, no clogs or anything but oh my god. What a pain in the ass. Changing spools while printing is absolutely not possible. Not only is the color inconsistent, but so is the gloss, so you can absolutely see the difference from any angle and in any lighting. For reference, in this project I'm printing with a CR-10V2 with a Hemera direct drive, Vulkan with a 0.6mm nozzle. My typical filaments are PETG, nylon and polycarbonate for functional parts and PLA for my daughter's toys. Whether it's carbon fiber polycarbonate, nylon or PLA, this printer works flawlessly. But I just can't get Amole wood to work. Most of my prints are made out of 500g nylon pieces and I press the print button and away I go. Most of the time I'm out of town while the printer runs 26 hours making these parts, and I'm back to a perfect print every time. I have full confidence in this machine except for this thread. During the week that I have been using these 6 spools I had thread sticking twice which I witnessed. No clog, the nozzle was fine. Filament is stuck at the Hemera inlet. The Hemera has double hardened gears and they pull like a train so there were clicks and under extrusions. Hemera won the fight on both occasions. Has this happened more times than I've seen? It was likely, but I sat there for two of them. I believe this is another symptom of an inconsistency problem. The suture diameter in these cases was too large to fit through the inverted Bowden cable. Not acceptable at all. Filament that costs half prints perfectly on this printer. Amolene didn't impress me. It's pretty easy to see these issues when you run 6 coils at a time like I did this week. The printer never shut down, part after part requiring constant adjustments. Consumption was between 81 and 90. It's just ridiculous. My other profiles never change. Month after month, Zyltech's PETG streams at 93 and is perfect every time at $16 a spool.