• spare_muppets@lemmy.ca
    21·
    1 year ago

    There is another way I find 3D printing and woodworking are similar:

    3D printing: buy a $500 printer an $30 worth of filament, make a $20 feather board

    Woodworking spend thousands on equipment and hundreds on wood to save buying a $200 coffee table

    I still love both things though…

      • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
        11·
        1 year ago

        I have thousands of dollars worth of equipment and I only give things away, there will never be a break even for me but that’s not why I do it.

      • motorwerks@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        I look at it differently. I make 1 coffee table that does everything I want/need, actually like the way it looks, & break even, albeit mentally. Same, but different, I guess.

    • thenewred@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      Holding up fine even after dropping it. Definitely works. And I decided to print the model I found with modular bits so I could reprint and replace the broken feathers when that eventually happens, instead of reprinted entire body.

    • IMALlama@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      This looks very similar to the traditional (eg purchased at a retailer) one I own with one exception: this looks like it screws into a continuous piece of plastic in the table saws track. Mine has two pieces of plastic - one per side. I’ve always assumed it was designed that way so the things it screwed into could rotate ever so slightly and bind in the track when you tighten it down

  • hoanbridgetroll@midwest.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Very cool!

    I got into 3D printing during COVID and it led me to my local makerspace, where I’m now learning woodworking to make a filament rack and other cool stuff. Same for electronics - I hadn’t assembled a circuit since college, but I’ve done several simple to moderate projects to improve my printers this year.