Hello
I am Bailey Furrow and I am a senior music education major at James Madison University. Other than my musical endeavors, I enjoy playing video games, making Perler bead art, and programming.
I decided to take this 3D Printing class because it has been something that I was interested in since it started gaining popularity in the early 2010s and I believe that it can have many applications in all areas of education, including music education. This portfolio will document my journey through combining 3D printing and music education.
Man Wearing A Hat
Design
I initially wanted to go with this noun because I am a person that wears many different hats (mostly flat caps and trilby/fedora hats) and while I initially wanted to make a man with a hat like mine, I decided to give him a top hat because it would be the easiest to design. Since he was wearing a top hat, looking classy, I gave him a cane to further emphasize the look.
When slicing the file to print, I made the decision to give him structural supports, since I was worried about the arms and the hat becoming horribly disfigured. Instead of manually giving it supports, I let the slicing software place them automatically to see what would happen. Additionally, I went with a rather thick print setting because I was running low on time (every other time I had planned on printing, something would come up).
When I checked on printing about 75% of the way through, I noticed that there was a lot of support. I was not expecting this much support. I knew that I would have a lot of work ahead of me for this print.
Post-Processing and Final Product
Clipping the supports off was a lot harder than I thought it would be. They were a lot thicker than I imagined them being and it was difficult to snip without breaking off parts of the figure. The picture above represents how I did in trying to keep it together. First, the base broke off, then the legs, and then the right arm waving. I believe the cane stayed attached to the supports and is now completely missing. The clipping process also took a lot longer than I imagined; I spent around 45 minutes snipping and tearing plastic supports off of the model.
The good news is that the main idea behind the model stayed intact: a man wearing a hat. Overall, this process has taught me that the modeling is not the hardest part, and actually may be one of the easier, if not time-consuming, parts of the process, while the actual printing itself proved to be much more of a challenge than I thought.
20 Objects
Nameplate
A simple nameplate to sit on a desk displaying my name as well as a sample job title.
Guitar Pick
Tool used for playing guitar.
French horn pencil clip
Device to attach a pencil to a French horn. Useful for practicing.
Plastic pry tool
Tool for prying apart items with plastic tabs.
Small, free-standing shelf
Exactly as the name says…
Pencil Cup
Cup to hold pencils.
Mouthpiece holder
Holds a variety of brass mouthpieces. First two rows are for horn and trumpet, the second two are for trombone, baritone/euphonium, and tuba.
Ring holder
Made to hold a couple of rings, like a wedding ring.
Unweighted conductor’s baton
Unweighted (meaning, not balanced where the fingers hold it) baton, made to be disposable.
Case for Raspberry Pi
Made for the original Raspberry Pi Model B
Ruler
Simple centimeter ruler.
Amiibo stand
For Amiibos made by Nintendo.
Baton display stand
For a conducting baton.
French horn mouthpiece
Modeled after my own mouthpiece.
Flute stand
Made to stand a flute vertical during a rehearsal.
Label spool tree
Store spools for a label printer.
Small hardware drawer
Store screws, nuts, nails, etc.
B.E.R.P.
Device designed to do breathing exercises while attached to an instrument. Designed for a French horn.
Tweezers
Simple plastic tweezers.
Phone stand
Smartphone stand for display.
Printing One of my 20 Objects
For printing one of my 3D objects, I decided to go with the mouthpiece. I chose this one because it was the one I was most excited about.
Actually getting this to print properly was a headache. The first print (that I currently cannot find) ended up with two large holes about halfway up the shaft and the top part deformed. I discovered that the issue was the walls on that part of the shaft being too thin to actually print. After this mistake, I found out that Cura will show these holes in the program before printing, so I took extra care in observing the preview before printing. The second print ended up giving me a ton of spaghetti about halfway through, most likely through the mouthpiece falling over:
Third times the charm, because that version printed beautifully:
Moving Part
For my moving part, I decided to incorporate it with my mouthpiece print. Combining this with a 3D printed BERP, a tool used to practice, I can fit the two together and have it function as intended.
Below is the BERP by itself. This thankfully only took two prints; the first print was too thin:
Below is the BERP and mouthpiece fitted together:
