{"id":2323,"date":"2013-10-30T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/2323-learn-awesome-man-saves-his-bird-with-design.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:44:45","slug":"learn-awesome-man-saves-his-bird-with-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/learn-awesome-man-saves-his-bird-with-design","title":{"rendered":"Learn Awesome: Man Saves his Bird with Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jimandknopf.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Schild had a problem: His bird Jim was stressing out and everything Sebastian tried to do to help him just didn&#8217;t do the trick. Then an .stl and some ingenuity came to the rescue. Here is Sebastian describing his process:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The names of our birds are Jim and Knopf, after characters in a German TV show for children. Our male bird, Jim, needs the collar because he started to pick out all of his feathers. It started about 2-3 years ago and in the meantime he had picked out nearly all feathers from his front, his legs and under his wings. That must be a psychological problem (perhaps with his &#8220;wife&#8221;) because the veterinarian did not find any other cause.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At first we tried some home-made collars (you can find construction manuals in some bird forums) with insulation\/coating rings, duct tape and plastics laminate. They mostly worked fine but our birds needed only about 1-2 weeks to shred these collars completely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later (after printing some silver jewelry for my wife) I had the idea of 3D printing plastic collars for Jim. 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