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Post by radio on Apr 28, 2014 19:33:54 GMT -5
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Post by connrock on Apr 29, 2014 8:06:29 GMT -5
The lost wax process on steroids?? LOL connrock
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Post by radio on Apr 29, 2014 8:15:21 GMT -5
The lost wax process on steroids?? LOL connrock Pretty much. it is cool they can use new technology to reproduce a piece, but the cost is out of reach of us Peons:-( They also gain the exclusive rights to the piece unless you pay the ransom.....er....fee
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bentiron
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Post by bentiron on Apr 29, 2014 14:11:15 GMT -5
Sounds like the ransom..er...fee is in 3D too! This could be great for the 1% families who lost the family jewels when the Titanic sank.
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Post by Rockoonz on May 3, 2014 1:10:46 GMT -5
Producing a detailed 3D drawing of jewelry isn't like scanning a photo. I have had to take a piece I could hold in my hands and measure and use it to design production tooling to manufacture it. When the customer wants thousands of the parts annually, the cost of the design and tooling divided by the parts made yields a reasonable cost. If someone wants to go through the entire process for a single part the cost may seem unreasonable to the buyer, but the labor to make one is about 90% of the labor to make 1000. That said, the potential for using a 3d printer in jewelry design is intriguing, and basic 3d printers are becoming affordable
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bentiron
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Post by bentiron on May 3, 2014 19:28:17 GMT -5
Maybe it was here or on FB but they now have a "3D" pen that shoots out a stream of plastic so you can doodle in 3D and then use it as is or cast it in metal using lost wax. Being an old phart I think that for me wax doodling would be my first choice but for the younger generation they always gotta have something new to mess around with. One good thing about the "3D" pen is the plastic hardens quicker than wax and doesn't soften in your hands. When they first started using CNC milling machines a young friend of mine wanted to make a tapered octagonal barrel for a rifle project I was working on. He wanted to make it a straight taper which was no big deal but that is not what I wanted and since he was doing this to learn how to program his machine I wasn't about to let him off that easy. Straight tapers are easy but tapers with curves are down right hard, it took him almost two months to figure out how to instruct the computer how to make the mill do the work. He more than made his time back in custom barrel work after that but he was dang near crazy after figuring out how to do it. No, the cost isn't material, it's in using your brain to program the machine to make it.
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