10 AMAZING Woodworking Prints That Justify a 3D Printer

[@Spreadsheets_and_pizza]

For me it’s not even about the money saving it’s about being able to make things completely bespoke. I have a large drawer full of vacuum adapters that I’ve tried and don’t quite fit my tools but have just started designing in fusion and printing. I’m always interested to see new ways of bringing woodworking and 3D printing together.

[@michaelwagner3952]

I’ve been debating on getting a printer for 2-3 years and this video is what got me to commit. I even opted for the LK5 the day after this premiered. Thanks :)

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Great! I hope you enjoy it :)

[@John-NeverStopLearning]

Hi, I purchased a Ender 3 Pro. I have a Husky tool box, which is built by Stanley. All 54 of the drawer detents had dried up and broken. None of drawers were staying in, extremely dangerous. The detents were $9 US each. $486 US The printer at the time was $200 US and $15 spool of TPU A95. I bought the printer, fixed the tool box/ chest saved $250 and still printing a bunch of other great things.

[@The_Joker_]

“HOSE ADAPTER” Dude you’re a genius! I got a adventurer 3 yesterday now I know what I’m making first.

[@geef0813]

I’m a woodworker and I’m thinking of a Bambu x1c. Looking for a reason to justify it. lol. Perfect video for me.

[@donny_bahama]

What an excellent, helpful, and well-produced video! I’ve wanted a 3D printer for years. I actually bought an Ender3 at one point but never actually got it working. When I’m ready to try again (very soon, I hope), I think I’ll go with this one. Thank you!

[@poepflater]

The first thing I printed was a little clip to replace the inside door shelf restraint in my fridge, It has been years since we could put anything in the door, but we hung on to the piece that goes across and the remaining clip, I just copied the clip and fixed the fridge.... That pretty much sums up my relationship with the printer... The more you use it the better you get at it, and the more you use it...I have a base model Flashforge Finder. An amazing piece of kit for entry-level. both in quality and features.

[@AndrewAHayes]

I made a centre marking jig and also printed a temporary set square when I left mine at a friends house when helping her cut and put some shelves up and the set square is accurate!

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Perfect! As long as it is accurate it is a great thing to use as well

[@beepboop8184]

Prusa i3 owner here. 3D printer is a must for any decent maker nowadays.

[@edwardliu1154]

great that you compared cost of printing a part vs retail. Great!

[@jehowa5691]

Totaly agreed! I have a Anycubic Mega Zero 2.0 and this is a awesome addition for many things in my workshop. Also doing own 3D objects is great, either for tools, jigs, templates,...

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Couldnt agree more! That´s a good printer as well, very good price!

[@alexviau6950]

Didn't know I needed a 3d printer that much 🙂. I am seriously considering it as a Christmas gift for myself!

[@TheSwedishMaker]

I think you should :)

[@klave8511]

Very nice video, I predict that every workshop, electrical, woodwork, chemistry, machine … will have a 3d printer one day, just like a paper printer (well except paper is being phased out for a screen nowadays). My 3 rules for printing:- 1-measure twice print once, 2-never print what you can buy, 3-you can have any colour, as long as it’s blue.

[@Gamersb3stfri3nd]

Rule 2 is crazy. For me 3d printing is the opposite. Never buy what you can print

[@dadcrafted]

Great video! I need to do the dust collector adapters immediately!

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Yes, they are a time saver for sure!

[@Traitorman..Proverbs26.11]

I started with an XYZ printer and even if I fought it with every print, my wife said, that our house would never be without a 3D printer. That for me is the best evidence you need as to having a 3D printer or not. Now I have 3 Prusa printers. Two MK3s and one MK4 set up for different requirements.

[@JasonGrissom]

Awesome video Pierre! I'm working on a video along the same lines of this one. Super helpful! Thank you!

[@xyzspec82]

Yes, the reward feels so good 😊

[@FintaruS]

Like allways. When you fint something amazing, you have to tell the hole work.. 🙃 Try looking in to osVAC, or open source vacuum.. A world off adapter for the vacuum and tools.. I love it

[@ChadsCustomCreations]

Great job Pierre love how many great use case examples you were able to show in this video. Also your video skills continue to get better and better thanks for the inspiration.

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Thanks Chad! Really appreciate it!

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Btw, still waiting for your next video :)

[@ChadsCustomCreations]

@The Swedish Maker haha thank you, yeah I have really been slacking on the youtube videos. I just told Xtool I would have a video for them out by the 24th of Feb so wish me luck.

[@davidcfrush]

Good job, I would like to see more videos of your 3D printed woodworking jigs (Fusion 360 design, printing how-to's, etc.).

[@ApacheJay156]

3d drilling jigs are great, even if they are only one use.

[@eliclem9074]

Thank you so much for sharing the files ! So helpful

[@thomasmcgravie6932]

Another great video, 3D printers are now becoming essential tools, i couldn't live without mine!😁

[@larrybud]

For those involved in detailed costs, you need to remember a few things, which it's not clear if this guy is including: 1) Filament costs. This is the material used when creating your model 2) Machine costs. You can get cheap 3d printers, and you can get expensive 3d printers 3) Energy costs. It's not free, especially these days. 4) And the one which people almost never include: TIME. If you are running a shop and selling your stuff, time is the largest cost for you. If you're spending 2 hours designing a model and tweaking it, that's lost time in building stuff (also, 3d printing is SLOW, so if you need that "thing" now to complete a project, plan on waiting). In addition, some prints require refinement. If you're printing edge guides for your router like shown here, you'll have to sand the model to get it smooth, otherwise the bumps will transfer to your edge. Looks, some things a 3d printer is useful, but as a woodworker, most of the times you can whip out a jig or a guide in the fraction of the time it will take you to get a finished product with your 3d printer. Just don't get stuck in the old adage "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

Two hours to design a model is pretty long. Except for the ruler gage, all the pieces he showed can be designed in less than 15 minutes. And if you use a slightly bigger nozzle and decent settings, none of them should take over 2 hours to print. Yeah, that’s two hours you‘ll have to spend working on something else, but it saves you a trip to the store or the time it would take to get the item shipped to your house. So you‘ll still have more time to work on your projects. For example, just two weeks ago I needed to use my Dremel to carve a few round holes into some wood. My options were to take a 1.5 hour trip to the hardware store and spend 20 bucks on the router attachment for my Dremel or to start a 3 hour print and make the attachment for about 70 cents of filament and electricity. Chose the latter option and while the attachment was printing I got finished with everything else necessary to finish the project. I wouldn’t have had the time to finish the project on that day if I had left the house to buy the part instead of just printing it at home. And regarding the part about having to sand the edge guides: Unless your printer is really old and outdated or you use really bad filament that produces blobs and bumps, there will be no need to sand the piece to get it to be smooth. At most you‘ll need to remove the brim (which takes about 5 seconds) and then the part is ready to use. I agree that 3d printing isn’t the solution for every problem and that making jigs or figuring out some other way to do something often is faster, but in my experience a 3d printer (even if it’s just a cheap second hand Ender3 like mine) is a tool that will quickly pay for itself just by all the time and money it saves you. I‘m just a hobbyist, but in my opinion everyone who does woodworking and is comfortable with using a computer would definitely benefit from having a 3D printer in his workshop.

[@larrybud]

@@yourlocaltoad5102 Agree that in the right place it has it's uses, and I do use mine. But it's the "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" for so many people. For edge guides for your router, unless you're making stuff for your shop, 3d printing isn't nearly smooth enough to get a quality edge. Not for heirloom furniture, anyway.

[@coldwoodcowboy4525]

Ohhhh geeze. Now I kind of want a 3D printer. Excellent video with good examples of its use. Like the old saying goes, “The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.” Oh, and the look of contempt on your face for Imperial was hilarious. I continue to use imperial because almost everything here is setup that way and that’s just how my brain works after having used it my whole life. But I do sometimes envy the metric world for its simplicity. To compensate I have engineers rules and tapes that break imperial down into base 10 instead of halves of the previous measurement like normal. I don’t use them all the time but they are handy sometimes for sure. But yes, I completely understand why anyone in the metric world would think we are nuts for sticking with imperial. Sometimes it does have its advantages, though.

[@TheSwedishMaker]

haha I am glad it didnt offend you as it was only intended as a joke :) I love that saying!

[@ThoughtFission]

Such a useful video. I swear, if I see one more video of a Benchy or a Cosplay helmet, my head will explode. Just one question. The costs that you show for you, do they include your time used to make the item including design, physically printing etc? I imagine that would be the most expensive part of the creating the item.

[@terryjones9784]

Bambulab makes an amazing printer for this, no fiddling. the a1 mini is $250

[@BobMuir100]

A very lovely video, thank you. I am getting closer to actually doing it!! Bob England

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Hey Bob! No better time to get one than today :)

[@BobMuir100]

@@TheSwedishMaker it’s money mate. I have been on sick benefits now for 12 years and all savings gone. So it’s not easy now. Your are of course correct Mr Swedish Maker

[@TheSwedishMaker]

@@BobMuir100 oh I totally get that!

[@josephpk4878]

Great video - fully explains my newbie questions, with a thorough walk-through. That's a damn good beard, too. I'm wondering how easy it is to transfer my 3D Studio Max meshes into useable files.

[@yourlocaltoad5102]

From what I found on google, it seems 3ds Max can export files as stl which you can directly drag and drop into any slicer to make it printable. I haven’t worked with 3ds max and so I don’t know how the scaling is when you export the files you designed in there, but if the scaling is weird, you can always adjust the scaling in the slicer and so it should be no problem.

[@mikee6657]

nice looking prints

[@deanroadifer6013]

I will always have a 3d printer in my shop, you never know what you will need and sometime can't find it. Blast gates are much better than the ones you buy.

[@odian3099]

Not sure if you are seeing this, but how do you get your top surfaces so smooth? Are you post-processing or have you enabled ironing?

[@DursunX]

first time viewer and i loved this vid. some of these gadgets I've never seen but always needed. the 'imperial' scene was hilarious

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Thanks! Appreciate it!

[@MakerViking]

Great video! Got to love 3D printers! It's an awesome feeling printing something you designed yourself, but lots of awesome models out there too.

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Thanks! Yes I agree, there are some great models out there to be printed

[@Kekker1944]

I Had the LK4 pro. worked well for a while then it would not except my mini sd card. only way to fix it was get a new motherboard, none of the 5 new motherboard s were any good. i threw out the printer and now only use ender models.

[@MRrwmac]

Thnaks. Gave me some reasons to maybe buy one….or convince the wife….haha

[@titol34]

amazing , great I really like it and very useful thanks a lot :-)

[@mariusbodvin]

Cheers Pierre, guess I’m buying a 3d printer as well now 😁

[@TheSwedishMaker]

haha I just thought if it would work to make templates for cutting out leather with the 3d printer. I might try that :)

[@zackaryfry1825]

My wife has a tendency to just buy things that I could easily print for a fraction of the cost 😅.

[@ElCidPhysics90]

I usually make things for 10x the cost and takes 5x as long

[@NomadMakes]

Brilliant video mate! Rolling on the floor here because of the imperial joke :D

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Thanks man! :)

[@MyGio7]

Thank you very much for the perfect video, I will also buy a printer tomorrow. just a question, what filament do you use for your woodworking jigs? Greetings from GREECE 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@TheSwedishMaker]

I mostly use PLA for everything. Should you need something really strong you can go for PETG.

[@MyGio7]

@@TheSwedishMaker Thanks....

[@mangefox]

I feel like your printed part costs are too high by an order of magnitude. $5 equates to roughly 200g of filament, which I don't think was close to what your actual usage was. I don't mean to come off negative, just wanted to put that out there. Thanks for the video!

[@jarigranroth6873]

Can you use the printer in house or does it create fumes that require it to be in restricted room?

[@Nahngunnarson]

I print mostly PLA and some PETG and the printer is running almost continouosly 24/7 in a 500 sf room. I don't notice any problem with fumes or odor though filter systems are available or can be fabricated.

[@josephromero1596]

Is this compatible w MacBook and windows desktop?

[@limitkazuyaofficial]

Hallo sir im from malaysia.can i ask u about cnc 3018 pro?

[@steveferguson1232]

I need to have my wife watch this. I can show her I’ll save money. Lol

[@ianharvey3696]

Just a small question, you made a fuss re metric pencil guide, and wondered why anyone would want an Imperial version..........Then you showed us radius router guides, one was 1" the other was 2"!!!!!!!!!!! Confused in Sweden???!!!

[@TheSwedishMaker]

Haha yes. I was just joking regarding the imperial system

[@ianharvey3696]

@@TheSwedishMaker Only winding you up...Sorry!!

[@boingomw]

I don't know why you'd want that either :)

[@MauleSean]

… imperial… I know, you grew up with it (head shake). 😂😂

[@boogerman908]

Damn 8 minute video 3 ad spots

[@Syrusoo]

Load your filament and then your ready to go trouble shooting right? No way you’re plugging in and just printing on a $300 printer.

[@DavidRavenMoon]

You grew up with metric and are afraid of fractions. 😁

[@SuperBoppy]

I am superior to you - I can read both metric and imperial with ease. 🤣🤣

[@Irek_Poland]

Za dużo mówienia za mało treści.

[@FrancisoDoncona]

Still waiting on that metric clock and calendar are you? Maybe we should rework reality for you. You hate fractions we dislike decimals or a scale of just 40 numbers that represent freakin hot to freakin cold.

[@TheSwedishMaker]

I was hoping it would come through more as a joke than anything serious.

[@oscarreyes4511]

The decimal system is used world wide as its more accurate and easier to use. All 3D simulations and calculations are done using decimals. Also, all 3D printing machine measurements (build plate size) and all the math used into slicing a 3D model are done in decimals. Its not like we hate fractions. Its just the decimal system is more easy to unterstand and better for accuracy!

[@oscarreyes4511]

Maybe every youtuber should include the 'american' system of measuring everything using dishwashers, microwaves or beer cans next time. 'The build plate of this 3D printer is 12 beer cans x 12 beer cans x 20 beer cans'

[@klave8511]

Decimals are fractions! Just in steps of 10 not 2

[@larrybud]

@@oscarreyes4511 First, it's the "metric system" not the "decimal system". 2nd, it's no more or less "accurate". lol. 25.4mm = 1 inch. Both equally accurate. "easier to use" depends on the circumstance. Easier to divide a meter by 10, but it's easier to divide a yard by 12.