Allomantic Symbol Bookends (Iron)

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# Allomantic Symbol Bookends (Iron) ## General: The finished photo above is for the Steel version. Now, I need to do a photo shoot for Iron as well. There's a quick shot of it in the workshop. - I wanted some bookends for my bookshelf but didn't fancy spending $20 on random pieces of rock or whatever. So, naturally, I spent around $80 experimenting and making my own. The symbol is from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. In that series, people can draw magic from various metals, and this symbol is the symbol for Steel. I plan to make additional ones of other symbols, starting with Iron as Steel and Iron are the symbols on the covers of special editions of these books, which I plan to order soon. ## How I Designed This: Brandon Sanderson has SVG files for the symbols available on a wiki. I originally wanted to just print the symbol in 3D but wasn't quite happy with that. It wasn't 3D enough. So, I manually traced each part in Photoshop and vectorized various parts. Then, I imported those vector files into a CAD program and gave curves and various heights to different pieces. ## Assembly Details: The symbol is suspended using 1.5mm carbon fiber rods cut to 41mm in length. The rods are held in place with clear two-part epoxy. The base is hollow, to be filled with sand, and then plugged using the printed plug that's part of the STL files. I used vinyl rubber self-adhesive anti-slip thingies on the bottom as "feet". ## Printing Details: These are printed out of Priline wood fill filament, using the wood.py script, ranging from 210 to 240 degrees. I printed them at .2mm layer height with 25% infill and no support or raft. Two shells work best. One shell works with a .8mm nozzle. ## Post Printing/Assembly: I spent like 45 minutes writing up a super solid "post-printing" workflow using Thingiverse, but after saving, all the images were gone. So I went in to edit it, and all my steps were also gone. So I made an imgur album with the steps detailed in captions of photos. You can find that album here: https://imgur.com/a/4yixos2