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Cake day: March 1st, 2024
  • rugburn@lemmynsfw.comto3DPrinting@lemmy.world•Is a dremel 3D40 worth it in 2024?English
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    19 minutes ago

    I’m just going on personal experience, 1st e3v2 I bought had a bent gantry extrusion (box was not damaged) and I had to deburr several of the holes. Luckily microcenter is local to me and I was able to exchange it. 2nd one was good for about a month before I had to replace the extruder as the teeth had worn off to the point it would slip and make that fun clicking sound we all know and love. I was only printing standard Inland PLA, nothing filled or overly abrasive. All ghings being equal, as someone new to the hobby at the time, spending more time and money trying to get it to print “ok” versus trusting it to not fail a 10+ hour print finally got to me. Not sure about their newer machines as my Ender experience left a bad taste in my mouth. Personally, when people ask what I’d recommend, I default to Prusa or Bambu (I went with Bambu), or Sovol or Quidi for more budget friendly options. I’ve heard Creality’s newer stuff is better, but I’m not planning on buying any more of their stuff. Eventually I’ll jump down the Voron rabbit hole, but too many other projects at the moment, plus a 350x350x350 machine is going to take up serious space in my print room.

    Tl;dr : if you have a creality machine and you’re happy with it, by all means. One can only speak on their personal experience.

  • rugburn@lemmynsfw.comtoguitars@lemmy.world•Advice for adding aftermarket TremoloEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Ordinarily I’m all for doing your own work on your own guitar, but unless you’ve done major work to a guitar before, I’d take it to a good luthier. Even a minor alignment error and you’ve got holes in your guitar that will ruin any resale value it has. That being said, if you’re willing to take the risk, a bigsby shouldn’t be too hard to install if you’ve replaced a bridge, shimmed a neck or slotted your own nut before. It’s all about getting it located and mounted correctly the first time.

  • rugburn@lemmynsfw.comtoguitars@lemmy.world•**Terminator voice:** I'm back!English
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    3 months ago

    That’s awesome. It’s great to hear that a piece of equipment didn’t make it’s way to a landfill and is back in use!

    My former employer, for… reasons… had a bunch of old guitars, mostly acoustic, in various states of disrepair that they were literally about to throw in a dumpster. Some were actually quite nice, a Breedlove and two Alvarez’s, but there were cracked headstocks, chips, body cracks and other issues. I was able to convince them to give them to me and so far I’ve rehabilitated the Breedlove, and I’m still testing one of the Alvarez’s (headstock was cracked between two of the tuning peg holes) with a little glue and some love. I plan on donating them all once I get through them, as I’m an electric player and really have no room for 8 more guitars, but I couldn’t stand the thought of them just being tossed in the trash