3d printed acorn

[curious aardvark]

I live in the middle of the new english national forest. This year's been a very good year for acorns on a lot of the small young oak trees.
After a single success and many failures in electroplating acorns.
I decided it would be easier to simply design and print a plastic acorn instead.

Crashed openscad a few times in the process. It really doesn't like more than 2000 objects.
But in the end I came up with a pretty good fake acorn.
Sliced it with flashprint (cutting it in half also crashed openscad) to make a brooch, printed in reprapper tech wood coloured pla and hand coloured the cup.

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Just printed one with an added twig on the base, waiting for printbite to cool, not sure if the twig is tough enough to take a hit with my hammer :-)

On the whole I'm pretty pleased with the result - and this will be much easier to electroplate than a real acorn.

Got impatient - twig survived the hammer :-)

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Used a darker green for the cup, looks much better in the flesh - so to speak.

Using decent safety clasp brooch backs - should be able to sell these.
So, no - the .scad an .stl files are not going to be made available :-)

And for the chap who said 0.1 and 0.2 layer height was rough. these were printed at 0.2mm on a replicator dual clone at 60mm/s printspeed.
I would gain nothing at all using a smaller layer height.