@etchedpixels @futurebird Plywood used properly can be very strong. Even chipboard/fibreboard can be a perfectly reasonable choice in some applications. Screwing into the edge of either is not proper, and that's how a lot of cheap things fail today if the plastic fasteners don't break first.

Of course there's a selection bias where we only know about what survived or was worth writing about. Where is the Ea-nāṣir of furniture?