Hi Everyone, as mentioned in my introduction post, BOTL needs quite a bit of updating, patching and whatever else I might come across. Over the next few weekends BOTL may be unreachable on occasion as I do migrations or updates, etc. Just be patient - we'll be back! I'll generally try to keep these maintenances until later in the evenings.
2016-07-01 by Shift_Six, on Flickr
2016-07-01 (2) by Shift_Six, on FlickrSince Blisscigarco commissioned these sadly I wouldnt feel right sharing sharing them as they'll be his files...
Anything I get done I'm going to make freely available to the community, with the modelers' permission, and I'll host the files in some permanent location. My intention is to have some great mold models available to everyone in all the popular vitolas, and to go through the process of finding the best materials from a usefulness/price standpoint, determine any "post-processing" required to finalize the molds after 3D printing, and make all that info freely available to everyone. The current status quo of molds in various vitolas being both incredibly difficult to find and too expensive or difficult to buy has got to change.
I think Shift_Six is otherwise engaged until tomorrow, Wednesday, so there is no new news right now. Meanwhile I've been researching the materials aspect of the thing. Anyway I'll report back here as things move along.
Correct, I'll be able to knock out whats left by end of the day tomorrow or Thursday at the absolute latest. This will be for the 5 rowed version shown above in initial concepts. Any other sizes will come after this mold and should take very little time to model up since I'll have a base template to work from.
46rg_x_6.5 Assembly by Shift_Six, on Flickr
46rg_x_6.5 Assembly 2