Kintsugi and 3D Printing

[@HairyStuntWaffle]

Tell me you bought 100kg of orange PLA without saying you bought 100kg of orange PLA.

[@robertelkins7441]

Love this concept. Another version of this that might be worth trying out would be to, instead of gluing the plastic to the ceramic, heat the ceramic up to just barely the melting point of whatever printing material you are using. Then press the pieces together so that the plastic rims gently melt into the exact shape of the edge they're being mated to.

[@Borgedesigns]

Back for a bit, got some larger projects lined up for the next few weeks. Finally accepted that the workshop space wasnt working and just took the time to rebuild 60% from scratch to hopefully streamline my process a bit better. Worth it but frustrating to get behind.

[@Daorf]

I figured you were gonna use a 3D pen to put gold filament in the gaps. Great idea either way.

[@goilo888]

I’ve had this exact plan in mind for a few months now. Was intrigued by this video since the concept was what gave me the idea in the first place.

[@nresiti]

You say there's no point, but this is probably not the worst way to give your prints a weighted base and save some PLA in the process

[@Klaevin]

that cup with the duck is especially... nostalgic? does it count as nostalgia, even if it wasn't my own past?

[@sveinarsandvin6418]

Good mining haul. Agian you are showing me the beauty of mastering 3D printing.

[@abetoday]

Very cool and beautiful use of printing! Love to see creativity like this.

[@willcubemakes]

hi abe :)

[@abetoday]

@@willcubemakeshello!!

[@_epe2590]

I hear minecraft. I like video.

[@HaloWolf102]

Opening a video with Minecraft music. Good choice.

[@valeriosalvo6567]

That's one of the gymnopedie. You got it backwards.

[@doubleedge6656]

He sold me with the aria math

[@david.barcia]

great concept!

[@dempa3]

Very cool! Ceramic/clay 3D printing seems also to be an interesting manufacturing method.

[@keldricharts]

Awesome video! Bring life back to what was lost with new tech.

[@chaymber_crafts]

i love the idea, this is some great art! definetly will give this a shot in the future! maybe add gold effect glue that i could mix myself.

[@foxtrot000]

Your videos are so cinematic! I love them so much! Keep it up❤

[@RoostersWay]

Greetings, great stuff. Could you share what scanner you use.

[@Gadjet00]

Very nice Chris, think i will have to try this :)

[@local24_]

I love this ❤ nice work!

[@joshcarter-com]

I LOVE IT! I wish there were better tools/workflows for matching CAD parts to existing parts as you did here. I've tried 3D scanning but always had to fall back to using reference photos (canvases in Fusion), measuring things with calipers, and simply printing test pieces and adjusting. It's a frustrating and time-consuming process. Fusion is also terrible at handling meshes, so I'm not surprised you had to fall back to Blender. Anyway, you came out with a really beautiful piece in the end--I love the blend of old and new.

[@Defeshh]

lovely work

[@Codex_of_Wisdom]

I love it. Good blend of old and new. This is similar to how museum restoration sometimes does infills on artifacts (but with non-permanent bonding). With a neutral plastic, scanning printing would be useful for that field. If I can get back into school, that's actually the subject I'd like to do my thesis on. I did kind of the opposite before - fixing 3d prints with a gold hot glue. It worked okay, but looked a little too rough. Doing it again, I would probably use gold PLA with a 3D print pen.

[@seedmoreuser]

Kinthree-d, new take on the Japanese format. Wonder if you printed in ABS, stuck it together and then vapour smoothed it, if it would form a more uniform and flush finish.

[@lsav1085]

Very cool

[@Ernzt8]

Very creative!

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Interesting stuff, but you missed the paradox that makes Kintsugi an art form. The repairs, to exceedingly valuable antique porcelain, are made with gold.

[@Luziferne]

I think Kintsugi its a fantastic way to reuse old/broken stuff, but for me the highlighted seams makes much of the appeal Anyway, I did buy a little 3D Pen with gold-&silver flitter ABS filament and will use that for when(not if, I'm that kind of clumsy) I break my favourite coffee mug to highlight the broken parts But printing whole parts has its appeal too, ngl, maybe with a gold/multicoloured filament?

[@ThatRobHuman]

Hey Chris, I've just recently started getting into the FDM printing scene, and I've been printing a lot of your tools and one of the things that I'm noticing is that while instruction videos are helpful, I don't think they convey quite enough to assemble things without complications - this isn't a slight against you or a thing that I think your prints lack, but its a pattern I see in the space a lot already: assembly instructions are more or less "Figure it out". My thinking is that there isn't really a tool to *create* effective assembly instructions. In a recent remix I made of your vise-jaws, I tried my hand at doing Ikea-style assembly instructions, and it nearly took as long as modelling the parts. So, to defer to someone who has been in the space longer: do you think there is a demand for some a tool that helps people generate assembly instructions ala Lego or Ikea? If so, what do you think would be necessary features of such a tool?

[@lunaumbra5179]

Depends, are you asking because you want to create the tool? The barrier is less a tool and more the time. Even the best tool couldn't reduce the time and effort retirement enough unless I'm an uncreative mind. Programmers hate writing documentation. It doesn't make money to waste time like that. For those who do invest in the effort we're are eternally grateful.

[@ThatRobHuman]

@@lunaumbra5179 I'm asking because I'm wondering if making the tool is worth the effort: would it be potentially useful or would I only be benefiting myself be making it.

[@lunaumbra5179]

@@ThatRobHuman if you make it well, people will come. But first investigate other solutions first so you don't waste time.

[@jp9403]

how are you using the iMac as a display?

[@jimbojumbo-os1np]

Alot of older imacs and other all in ones used to have display in to use as a monitor. Cant do that now becuase it means youd have a reason to keep your AIO rather than toss it. Cant have that, can we?

[@Alchemistake]

would you ban me if i made the same joke twice? no concrete, unsubbed.