[TheForge] 3D printers

[jerry Frost]

If I could access Iforge right now I'd link you to a young knife maker who
uses 3D printing to make patterns to cast knife furniture, print hilts,
sheathes, buckles, catches and such hardware.

3D printing metals is WAY more expensive you need serious lasers to weld the
particles but machinery that runs right out of the printer is being made.
There are some pretty cool competitions between shops being played, someone
made a pocket watch so the reply was to make a wall clock, then a
grandfather clock, I don't know where that one is going but they all work to
spec. I'm waiting to hear about someone making one with a wound main spring.

How about ceramic engines that only need spark plugs and fuel? 

It's not the technology that's impressive yet but just wait till the price
comes down where inventive whackos like us can afford one.

Frosty

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter
Fels & Phoebe Palmer
Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2015 12:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] 3D printers

Coming soon enough then.
Went to the Western States conference in Hollister CA.
Pretty good conf.Mark Krause power hammer workshop was especially good.
Lots of old friends and met a few folks i'd only corresponded with online.
The food service was weak and the weather brisker than i'd planned on, but
the tailgate sales were pretty good, as was the gallery.
The highlight of the conf was however, was the EA Chase gallery with a
lifetime of large drawings and the CBA's grand old man himself!
His book on hand held air hammers in BS is going to be published by Skipjack
press and there's hope that a book of his renderings will eventually follow.

On May 3, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Paul N <crosspein at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Not hardened dies, but certainly durable goods


http://www.guns.com/2013/11/07/solid-concepts-unveils-first-3d-printed-metal
-gun-full-size-45-acp-1911-video


**Paul

All dubious spelling is provided courtesy of Google Android

From:"Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer" <artgawk at thegrid.net> Date:Sun, May 3,
2015 at 1:02 PM
Subject:Re: [TheForge] 3D printers

Good answer Mike.
In my mind, when it's possible to 3-D print hard metal ( probably initially
sintered), then it will be sneaking into  the BS shop.
I've a friend who already uses one to work out mechanisms..but he spends
more time playing with it.
He has paired it up with a hand held 3-D scanner and is going kinda nuts
about the potential.
When it can produce hard steel dies, i'll begin to salivate.

On May 3, 2015, at 6:51 AM, CGRAF <adveniam at att.net> wrote:



On 5/3/2015 5:50 AM, terry l. ridder wrote:
> 
> Do 3D printers have a place in blacksmithing and metalworking?


In a "classic" shop no.

In a shop following the actual tradition yes.

There was a time when this same discussion could have been had as the iron
anvil replaced the rock, or the power hammer replaced the anvil for many
tasks.

Blacksmiths have traditionally been on the forefront of innovation.
The work in just plain too hard not to take advantage of anything one can
come up with.

Legend has it that it was a blacksmith who dreamt up the vise grip.

My my grew up next to a blacksmith shop.
The first salesman that stopped by selling an oxy-acetylene rig was not
allowed to leave until he had sold the smith his sample.

I am thinking that rapid prototypes and even finished items would be right
in step with the spirit.  It may not be "old -timey" enough for some, and
not how I choose to spend my time, but that means nothing in the grand
scheme.

As you know my time at the fire is strictly recreational so I do not need
efficiency in order to make money. For me it is all about the process.

On the other hand if I was providing one of a kind agricultural or machine
parts , for a profit, somewhere off in the hinterlands, I'd have a generator
and a 3D printer.

Blacksmiths made the tools both for city and more importantly for the
frontier in this country. I think they just put one in the space station,
right on the frontiers edge.

Mike Graf
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