Snap in Balisong/Butterfly knife - Stylish and stable 'blade' remix

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This is a remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3522693 which is a remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2878606 & https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2506531 This is also my first remix and first post here! I designed this for two reasons, primarily I wanted to make the "blade" wobble less when its in the open position, the other reason was I wanted a slightly cooler looking "blade". I say blade in quotes because this is still 100% a toy, it doesn't have a sharp edge or anything. The little serrations are also harmless and in fact, feel really nice to run your finger along. I had a toy knife with a similarly shaped blade as a kid so I tried to recreate it from memory. As for printing this, I strongly recommend you print one piece at a time, but there is a full sheet if you're confident you won't get stringing! Print settings are pretty much anything you want, supports will stop sagging but will take you HOURS to file and sand so I recommend no supports. (I learned this the hard way.) The pin which goes into the middle hole will absolutely need sanding/filing into shape (or file the hole, or both) It needs to be a tight fit so that you have to force it into place using a clamp or your bodyweight. If it is too loose, try increasing the scale by 1% on the print (it is like a 2g part so don't worry about wasting filament) Even though this is a toy, please be careful. Print it in fun colours and learn some cool tricks! Just be aware of your surroundings, it might be blunt but it would still hurt if you hit yourself or something else in the eye. Credit goes to natewu, Captnmazur & mirkin I created this by drawing the blade shape in photoshop then modelling it in 3ds max, I then used the boolean tool to stick my blade to the original blade's base and then tidied it all up. I hope it works out alright, any questions please just get in touch!