You can for that matter pick a glassy self-healing core near the appropriately made metal shaft, continuous rubber as you fill out the radius, and coated harder (UHD) nylon at the outer, but who's to care to make it like that? Ship it with the dough hooks, maybe.

Or as you suggest, printing open-grid metal-inclusion ceramics could go swimmingly for the less green home refactory applications. There goes little Sigfried, recasting his molybdenum iWatch band with the concentrated symmetry-breaking solar from the shed.