XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 7/12/17 7:43 AM, Martin Brown wrote:   
   > On 12/07/2017 12:28, Jeff Findley wrote:   
   >   
   >> So, I wouldn't discount the notion that the crafts stores might start   
   >> selling very small 3d metal printers for making little dangling things   
   >> for jewelery (memory bracelets, necklace charms, and etc.) since this   
   >> would drop right into the market-space.  They would only need to print   
   >> at most 3" x 3" x 3" to cover 99% of the jewelery market.   
   >   
   > I'd have thought it more likely they would sell thermal wax 3D printers   
   > to make the master for a lost wax casting in silver or other metal.   
   >   
   > Then they would offer a service to cast the good ones to order.   
   >   
   >> That same metal printer would sell "big league" at game stores where   
   >> custom cast characters for board games are already a huge market.  In   
   >> other words Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer 40k, and etc.  Even if an   
   >> individual player wouldn't want one, every damn game store on the planet   
   >> would want at least a couple.   
   >   
   > Maybe. I'd have thought a paintable plastic would be OK for this though.   
   >   
      
   	Craft people like working in all materials. That's one of the reasons   
   they came up with metal clay -- clay material that when fired creates   
   actual metal items.   
      
   	So 3D printers for metal, plastic, glass, anything, they'll be up for that.   
      
      
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