hi guys! this is cindy lietz, your polymerclay tutor in today's pct product demos. i'm going to be demonstrating a 3d printing penby banggood.com. now, they contacted me a little bit ago, they've seen our videos onyoutube and asked me if i wanted to demo the 3d printing pen. at first, i thought i'd loveto, except for it really has nothing to do with polymer clay. then i started lookingaround and i saw some people doing some jewelry
3d printing machine for jewellery, and different displays and stuff. then i thoughok, i'll do that. but then doug was talking to me and he had seen on youtube a polymerclay miniaturist by the name of angie scarr, she's from the uk and she does really greatpolymer clay miniature things for doll houses and stuff. anyway, she was using a 3d printingpen to make all kinds of neat things. so,
you'll want to check her out for sure buti want to show you some of the things i decided to do with this pen myself. alright, hereis the pen here. it's funny because on the box here, it says 3d stereo graffiti pen,i'm guessing the stereo is a translation error but it's funny. it's a cool pen here, i'llshow you the box itself and some of the features of it. it has a led screen or ole screen,i'm not sure what that means but anyways, it's a little screen that you can read from.it's nice and light, it tells you about how to switch from abs plastic to pla plastic,which i'll talk about in a second. it has high quality buttons which it does and thenit has a nice shape. it also comes in a bunch of colors. they sent me the red one. if ihad a choice, i'd probably would have taken
the metallic purple one 'cause then, it wouldgo with some of the things in my studio. here are the other things to do with the pen itself.it's got its power input, types of plastic filament used which is pla and abs. it talksabout the temperature ranges, you need different temperatures for the two types of plasticand this does the both of them. it uses 1.75mm filament, the same steps that you'd use ina 3d printing machine and then the nozzle diameter is 0.7mm so it's quite small. i foundit's quite an interesting thing to work with. i'll show some of my samples and things ina second but the product itself is pretty simple. you have a plug in cord, and thenyou got a little pen. this pen, i expected it to feel lower quality and it feels reallynice quality actually. the plastic is really
nice. it feels it's got a neat finish to it.it's got a nice weight--it's nice and light. the buttons are--they click like they said,they're high quality and they are. like i found, when i used it, it had no issues, itworked really well, there was no jamming, all that kind of thing. i'll show you thatworks in one second. it also comes with a little bit of pla plastic filament. the companyalso sent me a bag of abs plastic and these are the rolls that it came in. it's not veryexpensive, it's the same kind of stuff like i said for the 3d printing machines, so theyprobably just taking it off really large spools but there's eight colors in this bag and itwas only around 14 cad so it's not expensive at all. i did use a lot of the yellow becauseit really wasn't my favorite color and i thought
i'd practice with that but there's lots ofcolors available out there. i'm gonna start with a piece of the blue stuff here i cutoff already so i'll just use that. the cord itself is a little too short in my opinion,it's kind of a pain, you need to use an extension cord or something because it's quite shortbut it all seems to work quite well. also, in these pens, there isn't an on and off switchso it just automatically turns on as soon as you put the plugin in which is at the backhere. hopefully, doug will be able to see but there's a little screen here. can yousee that doug? ok, good. alright, so, there's a little screen at the front here and on thetop side or on the right hand side of the thing here, there's buttons that have arrowsgoing both directions and that's for changing
the speed up and down but also, if you pushthem both at the same time, it switches between pla plastic and abs plastic. that was reallyunclear. i couldn't really find that in the instructions anywhere but then later, i didread it on the outside of the box so that's probably an issue for people. it didn't makesense in the instructions. once you switch to the right plastic, i'm gonna use the absplastic and i've got it set on that. it's gonna go to 231 degrees celsius and to getit to start heating up, you just press the forward button. so you just press the forwardbutton there and you can see. the temperature gauge starts going up, really quite quickly,it starts jumping up. as soon as it gets to the 231, or the 230 range then you can startfeeding your plastic in. so you can see it's
just jumping up really quick. one thing toremember, don't leave it plugged in. as soon as you're done doing something, unplug it'cause it heats up so fast, it's not an issue there but you don't want the plastics meltinginside in the back. it's a little bit like working with a glue gun actually and you don'tjust leave your glue gun plugged in. ok, so it's up to temperature and i'm gonna put thefilament in the back. you can put the whole roll on, i'm just gonna put a small amountthen you're gonna press the forward button and you can hear it. it starts feeding forwardso now it's grabbed on and it's ready to go. now, the funny thing about this is that ithas quite a learning curve to it. i handed it to my husband doug and he said "oh i don'tknow why it's so hard" but it's sort of like
a crayon. a crayon is not hard to use butit's hard to make something really great with it. so it takes some time to practice withit and you can see that it's edging out a little bit as we go. i can change the speedwith this top one. it's on the speed 2, i can change it to 3, 4, 5, 6, between 1 and6 so it comes out really fast. i'm gonna press the down button, it's coming out grey rightnow because i have a clear, black and red in there before. if i just press it down,it just starts coming out. i can slow it down, and go different speeds. it has quite a bitof practice to get it smooth, it's kind of like drawing with a glue gun like i said.you can do some 3d stuff like up into the air but it's tricky. it kinda falls over,it hardens as it cools so it's coming out
soft but then to keep it straight, you haveto let it cool and let it stiffen and then pull away from it. it takes quite a bit, it'snot easy as the videos you'll see out there. to draw on flat surfaces, you can have littledrawings down here, some little shape here of a feather and i did quite a few littlefeathers when i was practicing so you can just draw around your design and one of thethings that angie scarr does is she makes these wonderful wrought iron, miniature wroughtiron fences and stuff 'cause this looks like wrought iron if you use the black and shedid some really neat stuff so you might wanna check that out. it comes out kinda blobbyand if you try to draw on the surface like my glass table for example, it won't grabon to it so it just kinda falls all off so
you can't really draw on a glass surface oranything. you need to draw on something like paper and then you can just build with it.i'll just continue to draw like that. see how the color's shifting? that's because ihad cut a bunch of short pieces and just changed them and so it's gonna shift. i was playingaround the idea of having it shift from color to color. i forgot that was in there, actually.now it's shifting over to the blue that i put in there last. it gets these little threadson it like a glue gun, you can cut those off or you can use a heat gun and just melt thoseback but it will just prop off your paper like that. so there's lots of neat thingsyou can do with it because--here, i'm gonna unplug it. there's two types of plastic, thepla and then the abs. the abs plastic melts
at a slightly higher temperature. i'm tryingto remember the amount--the abs melts between 200 degrees celsius and 230 celsius and thenthe pla is at a lower temperature but the abs plastic melts at a higher temperaturethan what we bake polymer clay at . that's what angie also figured out--that you cancombine the two so you can build something first with the abs plastic and then add liquidclay or baked clay to it. i have a whole bunch of things that i made, most of them are prettyterrible-looking because like i said, there's quite a lot of learning curve to it. i triedto make some three dimensional beads, they're kind of awful, they're kind of cool, i can'tquite decide but to me, they seem to have potential. so if i'm to wok on it, i may beable to come up with the design that looks
neat. right now, it's still a work in progressand i really don't like how they turned out but i'm excited about its potential. now,i did a whole bunch of this kind of feather shapes just trying to get used to using thegun and tracing them out. i think that you could do some really neat things with them,you can kind of hang them on to a chain here. i think there's a lot of findings, a lot ofbeads, earrings, all kinds of neat things that you could do with these, they're reallyreally light and the structure is neat. i experimented with some liquid clay. i madetwo different examples here using the leaves. this one i used some sculpey tls and justsort of poured it in to the top after i made it, i poured into the top and i rubbed itwith a little bit of pearlex powder just to
give it the sheen and then i baked it andit did just fine in the oven. this one, i put some resin into it and put some pearlexpowder on it and i think this one looked really quite neat. i also wanted to try it with solidclay. i had this idea though i haven't flushed it out yet, it hasn't worked yet totally.i just wanted to show it to you anyways. i had this idea of making some sort of cagesthat i can make large, hollow beads on and so i practiced making different ones and itwas hard to get it, to control it but i made a couple of forms here. like i said, they'restill--i'm in the discovery phase but i'm excited about the potential. ok, so i madea little cube, a wonky one out of some black clay and i covered it with a really thin sheetof white translucent clay so. a sheet is only
a playing card and a half thick, i wrappedit around my little form and baked it. the plastic held up, no problem, so i think there'ssome very cool art potential with this technique. this isn't there yet but it's got the potential.this is a little triangle, pyramid type shape i made similar to this one actually, onlyslightly better. so i think it--like i said, it's got some potential to combine the twoangie also made some really neat stained glass windows using liquid polymer clay and littleforms similar to this little black gate i tried to make. lastly, i just wanted to showyou a little pair of earrings i made with some little rose squiggles and i quite likehow these turned out, i ended up making lots of them but if you just take your pen anddraw a little spiral, you can get these neat
little roses. i hung them on some fancy roseearwires that i made from one of my tutorials and they're super light, they're really airyand i think there's a lot of potential to make jewelry, all kinds of different formsand all kinds of neat things. i hope you liked that. we'll put the links to where you canget this pen and it's not expensive at all. it's about 65 cad so i don't know what theprice is in american but it should be a little less and it comes with free shipping. likei said, the plastic themselves are only around--it's about $14 for a big pack of them and theyhave all kinds of colors and things like that. we'll leave the links where you can get that.alright, so i hope you enjoyed that, i hope you learned a little bit about 3d printingpens and maybe you can start thinking outside
the box in how you can start using it in yourpolymer clay studio and with your jewelry-making
projects. alright, so if you like this video,do let us know. if you've got a product you'd like us to test, a demo, a technique, or somethingthat you don't understand, and you haven't seen a video done on it yet by us, then makesure to leave your suggestions in the comment section below. we'll see you next time andbye for now!
