The thermo-mechanical pulping process (TMP) is the most common method for producing the fibres needed within the sector. The process generates a wide range of fibre sizes. This is partially caused by the different cells which make up wood, but is mainly because not all the fibres are completely separated during refining. Consequently, many of the fibres used to make board products are actually bundles of cells still stuck together, but, because they are rather small and long compared to their thickness, they are termed fibres within the industry. The fibres are, of course, small and this makes the preparation of a test sample time consuming, fiddly and prone to errors. Our approach is to use two drops of superglue to fix a fibre to a paper support that is nearly cut in two. The paper support makes it possible to position the fibre in the test machine. Once there, we cut the remaining part of the paper support so that the fibre is the only connection between the two halves of paper (see Figure 1).