Paw print pendant

Now this is an odd one.

The final product isn’t a 3D print, which isn’t as unusual as a new comer to 3D printing might think. 3D prints are an excellent tool for making other stuff.

A local groomer takes clay impressions of dogs paw prints for owners. In this case the dog had passed away and the owner wanted a piece of jewellery to remember them by.

The first step in this process is taking a 3D scan of the paw print. This gives a electronic model we can work with.

A nice heart shape is made in the modelling software with a flat face and this scan is then removed from the face.

This gives a heart shape with a paw print in it.

Then over to the resin printer where it is printed in a burnout resin. This resin when you take it up to 700ºC it will burn away.

Taking the print and embedding it in a kind of plaster which is happy at high temps you can then heat up the plaster, let the resin burn away then you are left with a negative volume.

Pour some molten silver into this and you end up with a pendant which can be polished up and turned into a piece of jewellery

If you go over to Steel & Jewels you can see some of their other work. You can either contact them or contact ourselves at barras 3D and we can put you in touch……… As we are married to them