u/nlightningm

Pardon the terrible pun.

This is my 3rd try - first one, I foolishly tried to make hinges and clasps.

2nd try was a perfectly snug fit - way too tight to use

Scaled this up by 2% and it's perfect! I love 3d printing. A perfect case in a few hours for a couple dollars

One thing I love with 3d printing is that it's really easy to take the basic form of something and embellish it without having to physically sculpt or carve it. I can easily add a little whimsy to my workshop with basically 0 effort

Currently working on a bit of an odd project... An upright bass banjo. I've always wanted something fretless, always wanted and upright, and I've had a bass drum laying around for the last 5+ years doing nothing.

This is my first time doing a neck, and I figured I can make it thick enough to not have to do a truss rod or frets etc. (since it's basically an upright bass)

Lots of plans for this build though, including an inlayed dovetail scarf joint, which is what I'm most excited for!

EDIT lol. Just realized I put 2-1/2 and not 1-1/2. And I put 4.5-1/2mm 😂🤣 the pitfalls of designing at 2am.

Oh well, just did that for the funny of it anyway 😂 (to try my best to copy the text)

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I constantly lament the fact that my hair will either be a little above a buzz cut, or be "as long as usual", owing to the sizes of my two shortest guard heights.

Haven't used it yet. This took some serious tweaking and troubleshooting to get the fit just right, but it's perfect now! Excited to see how it performs on my next haircut.

I printed them in different orientations to see which is strongest and has the best finish quality

This has been a LOT of experimentation and agonizing extra late at night with Fusion.

Also MANY failed prints and several that "worked" but really weren't good designs (see some of the later pics). Several earlier versions were 2- or 3-piece units.

I realized after a lot of measuring and thinking that I could just make it in one piece after all and force it in place. It was a struggle fitting it in, I even had to cut off that little registration "ear", and the thing might break if it ever has to come back out (but I think I'll just leave it there forever)

The two color thing is a happy accident - I just happened to run out of blue filament right then and there and was feeding in white.

It's a part that slots onto a smaller part of a similar profile, so it has a small ledge right there. Was just testing out different ways to orient the part to minimize supports and this was one possibility 😂

Sorry for the bad photos.

Yesterday I became the proud owner of a Flashforge Adventure 5M Pro (I know some people have beef with Flashforge - I just want a set-and-forget system after learning and troubleshooting other tools like my 3018 CNC).

I've messed with other dust collection devices for this router, but I wanted something where I could set the router to its max depth.

This version is just hot-glued to the plate and already works really well. It consists of a "cup", vent that slots into the cup and is hot glued in place, and a vac hookup that attaches to the vent. I already have ideas for how I can improve it for the next time.

But the fact that I can just design something in Fusion and literally make it appear is just mind-boggling!! It's not like the CNC where I have to load in material, figure out the best work holding, Z-probe, choose the right tool, work out and adjust feeds and speeds on the fly etc.