X-Bow Stock

[mitchjr]

In my spare time, I have been working on a new stock for my crossbow. I scanned the original. Printed the small blue one with the 3D printer and milled a small version on the bot. Now I am going to change it up a bit with basket weaves and carvings.
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[dlcw]

Very cool!

Someday I'd like to do a curly maple stock for my 30-06 and 30-30 lever-action hunting rifles.

Great job!

Don

[stevem]

Mitch, what kind of scanner did you use?

[mitchjr]

I got the Next Engine 3D scanner. The scan only took about 20 min.

[mikeacg]

Mitch!
The carvings look great! I have been doing pistol grips by hand for years and have been playing with doing them on my Buddy. I also have a duplicarver with a gunstock attachment that really didn't make the job that much easier so I hope to try it on my Bot. Thanks for showing me it can be done!
Mike

[khalid]

Mitch , what 3D printer you are playing with?..Is it a commercial unit or DIY Rep-rap?

[mitchjr]

Khalid...

The Next Engine is a comercial scanner. It cost about $3000. It does some really good quality at a fast rate.
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[navigator7]

Wow!
Just Wow.
I nearly bought a scanner three years ago for $60K when I purchased a 3D printer for 60K.
It was a painful, unkind but excellent learning diversion.

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3 GRAND YOU SAY?
OMG!!!!!
Scanners will be as common as felt pens.

Its only a matter of time before we have a StarTrek replicator in our kitchens.

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For StarTrekkies:
I'm thinking.....Chicken Soup!
(Out pops a soup mug of my own design. When I'm done I throw it in the trash, it gets shredded pressed into pellets and heats my shop....which is really just a Walmart holodeck. The cold is an ambiance program I picked up for a few thousand chinese yuan...the new currency. So is the light and heat emanating from the fake wood stove. The real money in the future will be making gamma radiation fade resistant 2D bumper stickers and ads for interstellar starships. "I went fishing on Venus and all I caught was a cold!")

[khalid]

Unbelievable... wow...
.. I really like that stuff...The 3D printer is in my To do list, However i have comparatly better scanner than Next Engine..

My own Laser scanner...