I have been experimenting… as many of you know, I have drawn up several styles of brakewheels in Sketchup and now offer them as a 3d printed part through shapeways. The equipco style I found to be impossible to print, due to the thinness of its style. My latest scheme was to etch it in .016" brass:
This is nothing new - I have tried this in the past. I’m happy with the result, but its painfully flat. I had tried stamping with a ball peen hammer before, but found the results unpredictable. But now that 3d printing has been opened up for us, I decided to try 3d printing a stamp. This is stainless steel:
Here’s the result of the first stamping:
And here’s what it looks like with a stem soldered on:
