[TheForge] 3D printers

[terry l. ridder]

hello

how is she 3D printing Steel?

what one sculptor is doing to 3D printing in wax.
Investment cast the wax.
melt/burning out the wax.
fire the investment cast
pour the casting.

this sculptor has being primarily doing mathmatical objects.

The detail they are able to attain is beyond words.

One jeweler in Chicago is doing 3D printed wedding ring designs then
does lost cast investment casting.


On Sun, 3 May 2015, Mike Spencer wrote:

> Mike Graf 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.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> For me it is all about the process.
>
> For me, it's not *all* about process but I'm most happy when the
> process is central and the form emerges elegantly from process.  When
> it's strictly about function, I end up making really ugly stuff that
> usually works but looks like something from the scrap heap.
>
> 3D printing appeals to me because you can make forms that you can
> imagine but that are more or less impossible with other methods.
> Arboreal forms are possible but get awkward after the nth forge weld.
> Reticular forms just don't work and you have to turn to arc welding or
> the cutting torch.  Other forms are mind-bogglingly unforgeable.
>
> So this woman is beyond cool:
>
>   http://www.bathsheba.com/
>
> Biological forms often *do* lend themselves to forging but many
> mathematical forms -- embodiments of mathematical abstractions -- are
> dauntingly complex.  And Bathsheba is knocking them out one after the
> other.
>
>
> - Mike
>
>

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terry l. ridder ><>