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Sphere with coil
Alan Zenreich
As some of you know, Lauren and I enjoy experimenting with combining materials and techniques.
I turned the 2.5" hard maple sphere, and she embellished it with archival ink. It sits atop a wood coil printed on one of my delta style 3D printers. It's dual filament, with the body printed with wood filament, and the removable/dissolvable supports printed with PVA.
Re: Sphere with coil
Dave Delo
Very creative piece for you two. Should be a blue ribbon in its future.
Re: Sphere with coil
Alan Zenreich
Dave, thanks for the kind words.
However, we are shy, demure types, so we don't submit into competitions.
This piece was done as a swap between Lauren and Donna Banfield.
It's great when artisans appreciate each other's work and want to share.
Wood filament?
Dick Coers
Is that wood flour extruded into a filament with a binder? What percent of the filament is wood?
Re: Wood filament?
Alan Zenreich
This particular filament is 30% pine.
Re: Wood filament?
John K Jordan
Alan,
OK, there's two much creativity allotted to you two.
Is this with the printer you showed and wrote about here? It it time to sell that one to me and build another?
JKJ
Re: Wood filament?
Alan Zenreich
John,
I am down to two delta printers. I sold my original Cartesian style printer to a friend.
You can see the two printers at the very beginning of this video about the dual filament capability of my larger printer.