I would be willing to do whatever you want!!!  As they say BTC talks and bullshit walks.  It would be an honour to have designed and sold the official BTC bitch slapping ring!  I might even name the piece that if it's all good with you 2!

Out of titanium, sure see above!

As a little update:

I had to do a few minor tweeks to the Bitcoin Bull & Bear design.  There were too many small parts that likely wouldn't survive the manufacturing process.
1:  Re-positioned the bulls horns to be "pinned/supported" by the ring body.
2:  Increased size of bull nose ring and "pinned" it to bulls head
3:  Removed the world map from under the  BTC logo.  Central America, Japan and a whole bunch of locations
     were way to small when scaled down to ring size.  I would have had to make them bigger and it looked
     weird when I started to fix it so I scraped it instead.
4:  Closed Bears mouth.  The teeth were to small, rather than removing them completely I closed the mouth
     slightly and merged the teeth together for proper support.



I went ahead and got a quote for manufacturing both rings.  After reviewing the quote I went ahead and ordered 2 of each of the rings.  I ordered a premium polished sterling silver (.925) and 18k gold plated for each style.

Eta I was given is end of May for me to have them.  You can be sure when I get them I will post pics for review.  If they are good quality I will probably offer them for sale.  The manufacture has the ability for the artists to set up an e-store on their site, I may look into that and offer direct BTC sales here.

I am going to do some more designs, I have a bunch of ideas floating around my brain now!
I think one of the next designs might include HODL somewhere!!!
Also please throw out any other suggestions you might like to see incorporated in future designs, please!!!!!

New design, for the more minimalist crowd!

I am going to get a quote to manufacture this design in a couple of materials.  If the cost seems reasonable I will get a couple made so I have something physical to show!

Also going to start work on additional designs while I wait for pricing and possibly manufacturing.

Oh and lastly of the 4 freaking pieces of CAD software I use not one of them had an actual silver material...  I ended up having to use a gloss plastic material with a silver paint on it.  The result is not what I would call a realistic representation but it's about as close as I can get!

LOL, I'd hardly call it a spat.  I have done exactly nothing this clown.  I have essentially ignored him except when he blatantly lies about me specifically.  All I've done is respond with facts to refute his lies about me.

I don't give him much thought lately TBH.  Then all of a sudden he gets red trust and some how it's my fault or some bullshit.

The dude has mental issues and needs medical help ASAP IMO.

I honestly suggest you seek medical assistance for your mental illness man.  There are some decent medications that can help with your obsessive infatuation problems.

I'm still not sure what in the actual fuck I have to do with any of this LOL.

For the record I have no problem with Darkstar_.  I'm not even sure why anyone would think I do??

I was gonna spend a few minutes and reply but then I remembered that I would just be wasting my time as the OP is too stupid to understand basic logic.

I delete quite a few posts daily.  It is not a personal thing I assure anyone of that.

If your posts are deleted in the P&S board it is because I felt they did not follow the rules of the forum.  I would estimate 99% of the posts I have deleted fall under the no/low value rule.  That's a really good place to start if you want to understand why a post was deleted there.

I don't care how many words or lines a post is.  Making it longer while still saying the same thing that has been repeated or arguing both sides of an argument is more annoying than 1 liner shit posts, ironically enough!

The tactic of using what aboutism is weak IMO.  but but but what about the other guy breaking the rules...

I can't necessarily catch all shit posts, I'm not a bot.  I actually read the majority of the threads in the sub, a post may appear to be a shit post but the poster may have actually mention something I hadn't heard in the thread yet.  So you and I may have different opinions on some posts.

I have only been moderating the sub for a couple weeks.  I am certainly not going back through every thread to look for old shit posts.  My time is much better spent keeping it clean going forward.

Theres probably stuff I'm forgetting but you get the point I hope by now.


LOL imagine how many I delete before you even see them?!  

Awesome stuff man, the first printer I ever owned back in 2012 or maybe 13 was a wood framed makerbot, I wish I still had it LOL!  I spent hours tinkering with the old girl, but I don't have pics from then.

I then moved on to working on a full colour powderbed 3D printer (projet 660) I was involved with some friends who started a 3D selfie business on the side.  This is where I learned the bulk of my CAD skills as I did all the digital post processing of the raw scans to get them print ready!  Printing in 1 or 2 colours is awesome but printing in 6 million colours (full CMYK) and adding texture maps to the models takes it to a whole new level and I learned an unbelievable amount during the companies short life span.

Here is a press release from a national news spot on the company from back in 2014.
https://globalnews.ca/video/1327703/new-company-offering-3d-selfies

My current work with 3D printing is with a client who has the 2 largest DMLS (powderbed laser metal 3D printing, true additive manufacturing) machines in Canada.  They are a tool and die company that is a T1 automotive supplier.  They print exclusively in maraging steel (MS1) and according to my client they are revolutionizing the large high pressure die cast world by adding in conformal cooling to die cavities.  These conformal cooling lines are impossible with traditional manufacturing process.  I am not allowed as you can imagine to share any of that proprietary work here.

I have not printed in any of the precious material before and I wouldn't be the one doing it.  I would upload my designs to Shapeways and have them do it.  This way I have a lot more confidence that the quality of the metal is what it is supposed to be.

I guess at this point I should mention the process a company like Shapeways uses for "3D printing" various metal materials.

3D printed precious metals usually use what is called a loss wax cast method, which allows for high precision jewelry. I guess it may be a bit misleading as the end product is not printed but it is cast.  Basically a high resolution 3D printer creates the model in wax.  Then liquid plaster is poured around the wax model.  Once the plaster sets the wax is melted out in an oven and you are left with a nice one time use mould.  Base metal is poured into the mould and then broken away to leave the cast of the original model!  It can then be plated or polished or any other post processing technique desired.

I haven't got any example of my own work done like this because I haven't done any yet.  I am going to though because it's just to cool not to LOL! I will update the thread with the first piece I do, show the design and when I get the finished product back will do a review and post some pictures.  I think even if I don't sell any enough folks will be interested to see it!

Check out Shapeways to see tons examples of jewelry created this way, the detail and finish appears to be high quality.  But as you know yourself there are limitations on minimum sizes so stuff doesn't break during post, shipping, use etc etc!

Now back to some of the actual questions LOL

I would do it in any material the manufacture is offering.  I don't have a stainless option currently.  They do have a .925 sterling silver option but not a .999 option.

For the other design questions I will do up a few more designs and see what people think.  Originally I had thought of a display piece but if people want something to wear I can handle that!

I'll update with more design pics when I have them.

I was definitely thinking about it potentially being a little "gawdy" lol.  I did sorta have a "super bowl" style ring as my inspiration and may have gotten a little carried away with the size of the heads on the side!

Charlies rings would be relatively easy to model.  Being that this is a hobby to me I'm not sure about infringing on someone else's work.  I understand the BTC logo is free use but I assume I couldn't outright copy his ring?

Perhaps a cat nuzzled up to a BTC would be more your style eh?  

I can do more than one design and I'd like to so I'll see what else folks have to say and go from there.

Thanks,
FH

Yes, YES and YES!!

Hello Collectibles section!

I'll try to keep it as brief as possible and then if there are any questions/interest I will elaborate as much as I can.

On top of being a former BTC miner, a current alt coin miner and general BTC enthusiast I am also a big 3D printing enthusiast.  I have had the pleasure of personally working with plastic, full colour "sandstone" and metal 3D printers.  As a hobby I enjoy designing new and different things.  I recently decided to design a ring for myself not with the intention of wearing it but to display it in my office.

Ok so now we get to why I'm here!  I thought I would see if there was interest in the collectibles crowd for something like this (similar not exactly this one as this design is for personal use).  I thought I would do up a little different design and have 5 or 10 made up as a limited edition.  One of the cool things (I think) about 3D printing for manufacturing collectibles is that it would be quite easy to number them and also "print" into each "part" (ring) an authenticating mark.

There are quite a few material options, bronze, copper, 14/18k gold plated, sterling silver, 14/18k gold, platinum, and a couple more.

Since I have no trust if there is enough interest from trusted members I would a do first edition of gold plated or sterling silver or something.  It could end up being a couple months or more from the time we decided to move forward and I would be fine with escrow.  Escrow would not need to happen until the rings are ready to ship to to you so the coins would only be locked during shipping to you for obvious reasons!

I can not even speculate on price at this point but I hope I can get a quote pretty easy if this goes anywhere.

Provided I don't get laughed out of here or ignored I will be happy to answer any questions about the process, prototyping, who will be manufacturing (it's a large American company, not me LOL), materials, design, display etc.

I'm open to your suggestions as well.

I hope this explains things and I really hope you enjoy it!
  

How very oddly refreshing, a polite racist.

This is big news, it was thought for many years that the polite racist had gone extinct and that only its more vocal and radical cousin the screaming lunatic racist was left in existence.  In a new post today on Bitcointalk we have undeniable proof that the extremely rare (but just as stupid!) polite racist in fact still exists!

What a ridiculous statement.  Just because the rules allow people to have multiple accounts does not mean spamming is OK...

Spamming is against forum rules, having multiple accounts is not.  What about these statements is hard to understand or contradictory??

If the hero account is banned and your posting outside of an appeal thread in meta then your are continuing to break forum rules (as was pointed out up thread).  I'm not sure why anyone would believe you won't bump again or break other forum rules. 

I'm not sure if you're actually serious, just not paying attention around here or have a confirmation bias based on your situation.

There are lots of threads and posts where people talk about making more in a week from bounties than a month at their job.  I honestly don't have a problem with that part of it but when they come here and turn the forum into a cesspool of useless redundant copy and pasted shit posts and do it with an army of alts, ya I and a lot of other users get a little pissed off.  Some of us have been around for years and truly believe in BTC and want it to become something greater for the whole world.  So ya it is kind of disgusting and ignorant and insulting when people treat this forum (which some of us really care about) like a whore and it is their right to abuse it.

There are some amazing people in this community and the community will open her arms and take you in if you just show just a little more than zero fucks given...

Your "friend" is a plagiarist.  You already have the information required to appeal the ban.
Hint:  Read the entire thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3453307.0

Right on, thanx mate, I'll check in from time to time!

Hello Darkstar_

I understand the campaign is currently full but I would like to ask if you would consider me for a spot if one opens up in the near future.

I have seen this so many times and it is such bullshit.  You presume higher rank members "will not much interest" or will "not get any benefit if he spend merit" and I can tell you that A LOT of high rank members are interested and do get great benefit from awarding merits to new users.

Not everyone needs an immediate reward to do something.  Some users are actually here because they want the BTC community to grow and flourish.  With that goal in the back of their minds it is of tremendous value to the community to have GOOD new users on this site and as such they are very interested in awarding merit to GOOD posts and users.

I'm not a source, I have some merit left but I am constantly at a loss to find something that hasn't been re-hashed a million times or something that isn't spammy or post count padding...  You're not getting my merit unless I feel you want to be part of this community.

Lastly merit is awarded to users to use at their discretion. Something that seems new or helpful to you may have been discussed to death over the years.  I won't award it merit and it's not a stretch to think other higher level members feel similar.

Since your MO is to spread completely false, baseless accusations fueled entirely by your own confirmation bias I feel I should respond so that a normal user can have both sides of the story and make up there own mind.

Do your own search, I'm not required to spoon feed you.

Several topics that were about that general topic had been opened in a few days.  In actual fact iirc I think I locked or deleted another thread (or 2) with a similar theme.  Keeping the discussion on a similar topic in a single thread is done to keep the redundant spam mega threads to a minimum.  Of course you are so close to the topic that your confirmation bias couldn't possibly allow you to think there was another possibility other than my desire to censor.

There must be 15 threads (I did not actually count) about god, athiesm, religion, spirituality and every other synonym for those words already in the sub.  There are new ones created all the time.  The thread in question was already 42 pages long and had long before became a spam mega thread with the last several pages of "one line shitposts".  The other threads still open had some actual discussion between opposing view points so it was left open.  Matter of fact the thread you say are my own threads are not my threads I did not start it, so stop lying.

Again it's clear in the last case your confirmation bias won't allow you to see any possibility other than a godless cunt censoring a topic.

You are a butthurt troll with a confirmation bias a 100 miles long.  You make blanket statements that are provably false.  Readers should hear this opinion before making a decision on the validity of your claims.

Edit: Apologies for going off topic OP but I felt I needed to respond to this trolls accusations.
Edit 2: to fix quotes

Maybe he means it's his income form...    Like a 1099 form for misc income in the US!!