Hello Everybody! I just want to say how excited I am to be opening a shop here on Shapeways! I look forward to meeting new people and get feedback on my products. While the shop is small now, I have quite a prototypes in the works, of which I hope will be useful to most! I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering, so you will most likely see most of my products relate to tools, mechanisms, design, etc. I am even finding jewelry to be a fun creative process. I look forward to being a part of this community!
It is very addicting! I am just waiting for the day I can own my own printer, then prototypes could be made relatively quick and cheap before final production!
Having your own printer does take the edge off ordering more expensive parts. Check out this thread about printers others have https://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=116 280&&srch=3d+printer#msg_116280
I have 3 home printers and most of the time all you hear in my house is the printer on; so much so that one day me and my lovely woman were on vacation and she said that it was weird not falling a sleep to the sound of the printer and it's weird melody lol.