My 3D Printing Business Made This in 3 Months — Transcript

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1. 0:00There's two types of people in the
2. 0:01world. Those who own the means for
3. 0:03creating wealth
4. 0:05and those who work for them.
5. 0:07Which one do you want to be? You need to
6. 0:09make that choice now. I heard that first
7. 0:12eons ago on a college campus and they
8. 0:15were all cheering, "Power to the
9. 0:16worker." I heard that.
10. 0:19I thought,
11. 0:20"Well, it's clear.
12. 0:22Become an owner."
13. 0:23And in 2026, this is the golden year for
14. 0:26it. I started my home manufacturing
15. 0:28system was it uh last October and I'm
16. 0:31going to show you my first quarter
17. 0:32profits and earnings and profits. We're
18. 0:35going to talk about what I've did right,
19. 0:37what I've done wrong, what you can do
20. 0:39different. I'm going to even show you
21. 0:40what I make, where I sell it, and then
22. 0:42we're going to talk about what you
23. 0:43should be doing and what you should be
24. 0:45selling.
25. 0:46Hot tip,
26. 0:48don't try to make what you see me
27. 0:50making. I mean, maybe you can, but I see
28. 0:53so many people, I'll show them something
29. 0:55and then they'll they'll fixate on that
30. 0:56and go, "I need to make that." Someone's
31. 0:58already doing that. That hole's already
32. 1:00filled. You need to find your own, okay?
33. 1:03Let's get into this, all right? So, this
34. 1:05is on my Shopify store. Full disclosure,
35. 1:09I do not sell anywhere else. I sell on
36. 1:13Shopify. I don't have Etsy. I don't Why
37. 1:16actually do have an Etsy account, I
38. 1:17don't use it. Uh I have an eBay account,
39. 1:20I don't use that. Uh
40. 1:22I only show sell these products through
41. 1:24Shopify, but I can do that because
42. 1:27reasons, we'll talk about, all right?
43. 1:29So, first first uh first three quarters,
44. 1:32we sold $11,892.85 worth of product. I
45. 1:35run at a 40%
46. 1:40profit margin, which means I made
47. 1:42approximately just under five grand,
48. 1:45okay? So, that back to the napkin kind
49. 1:47of stuff. And I'm pretty tight on those
50. 1:49margins. I hit those pretty accurately.
51. 1:51I I buy uh filament in bulk, which is
52. 1:54why for everyone who's like, "I can't
53. 1:55get filament right now." Sorry about
54. 1:57your luck, but I'm fully stocked or
55. 1:59mostly fully stocked.
56. 2:01And as you can see here, it started off
57. 2:03big. We had a huge first month. Now,
58. 2:06here's the reason why I can do some
59. 2:09things that maybe you can't, but you can
60. 2:11do them in a different way, okay?
61. 2:13I am a full-time content creator on my
62. 2:16main YouTube channel. So, yeah, I got a
63. 2:19little silver play button there and
64. 2:20everything, right?
65. 2:22Otter's holding them up. So,
66. 2:24I I'm I do this full-time, all right?
67. 2:27So, a lot of people are like, all the
68. 2:28you can'ts were like, well, you can't do
69. 2:29this, you're just lying to people
70. 2:30because you can just advertise whenever
71. 2:33you want on your main channel.
72. 2:35Thanks for telling me my business that
73. 2:36you absolutely knew nothing about
74. 2:38because I can't do that. Well, I could.
75. 2:40Have you ever been on those YouTube
76. 2:41channels where every time you turn
77. 2:42around you you start playing the video
78. 2:44and they're like, buy my coffee. Buy my
79. 2:45coffee. Buy my coffee.
80. 2:48Decaf, guys. You need to switch to
81. 2:49decaf. I get it, you're selling coffee.
82. 2:52That's fantastic, more power to you.
83. 2:55Decaf. Point is, we have something
84. 2:57called inventory, all right? So, for
85. 2:59every video, I could put in an ad, but
86. 3:02if I put in too many ads for the same
87. 3:04thing, we have something called
88. 3:05oversaturation and you're going to turn
89. 3:07people away.
90. 3:08Also, for every time I I'm big enough on
91. 3:11my channel that I have a line of
92. 3:14sponsors lining up who wants to be in my
93. 3:16videos. If I put them in my video, I
94. 3:20make money.
95. 3:22If I don't put them in my video and I
96. 3:23put myself, I'm throwing that money
97. 3:26away. Hence,
98. 3:29like, let's say it's $500. If they paid
99. 3:31me $500, but I say no, I'm going to put
100. 3:34my own product in, I'm losing $500. So,
101. 3:37in in essence, I'm this is math, just
102. 3:40basic math.
103. 3:41If I use a slot, one of my inventory
104. 3:43slots, for my product, I'm paying $500.
105. 3:47That's my cost. It's a real cost because
106. 3:49I'm not putting $500 in my pocket. So,
107. 3:51it's not for free.
108. 3:53Okay? Maybe on a smaller channel it is
109. 3:54for free.
110. 3:56Guess what? Guess who could start a
111. 3:57small channel?
112. 3:59You could. It's not that hard. I'm an
113. 4:02old I'm 57 years old in Montana, gray
114. 4:05hair, not the best looking guy. Okay,
115. 4:08ruggedly handsome, but not the best
116. 4:09looking guy. All right, I'm I'm I'm old,
117. 4:12out of shape, and and not cool at all.
118. 4:16Trust me, I just went to a creator event
119. 4:18and I was the least cool person there.
120. 4:21Uh but, I wasn't the smallest person
121. 4:23there, not by far, because
122. 4:26I just keep at it, all right?
123. 4:28You do it and you can do that, too. But,
124. 4:30let's get back to the numbers, all
125. 4:31right? So,
126. 4:3211,892.
127. 4:35I did two videos, one full-length video,
128. 4:39and one YouTube short.
129. 4:40And this basically is what I got from
130. 4:42that as the initial product launch.
131. 4:45There was a lot of discussion about it.
132. 4:47Uh the short did very well. The the main
133. 4:49video did meh. Uh not nearly as good as
134. 4:52one of my regular videos. And then, we
135. 4:55got this trickle of views coming
136. 4:57through. This dead period right here was
137. 5:00we pulled back. I didn't take any
138. 5:02orders. I was trying to recuperate from
139. 5:05these because they hit me kind of hard.
140. 5:07The products we make, and let's talk
141. 5:08about the products that we make. All
142. 5:10right? This is the page I sell through.
143. 5:12I don't sell on Etsy. I don't sell on
144. 5:14eBay. I don't have anything. I just sell
145. 5:16on my Shopify store. And here's what you
146. 5:18see. We got pit trays. We got microfiber
147. 5:21cleaning cloths. We got welding uh table
148. 5:24fixture pins. I haven't even sold any of
149. 5:25those. Should probably take it off. But,
150. 5:27these are the socket trays that we sell.
151. 5:29Now, here's the deal.
152. 5:31So, I talk about on my main channel a
153. 5:33lot about Harbor Freight. And Harbor
154. 5:34Freight, along with a bunch of other
155. 5:36companies, have come out with something
156. 5:37called master socket sets. Now, if those
157. 5:40of you knows what a socket set, we're
158. 5:41talking tools, things you take nuts and
159. 5:42bolts off with.
160. 5:44Master socket sets are bigger sets that
161. 5:46have you know, most sets they skip the
162. 5:48stuff they think you're not usually
163. 5:50going to need. And for most people you
164. 5:51won't need them. But for those of us
165. 5:53kind tool heads, we do run into those
166. 5:54situations. And what really sucks is
167. 5:56running into that situation and be like,
168. 5:58"Ah, I got to put this on hold, go to
169. 5:59the store, buy that socket, come back,
170. 6:01now fix it." What master socket sets do
171. 6:03give they give you all the sockets you
172. 6:05could possibly need all at once.
173. 6:07Which is great, except they don't really
174. 6:10make it socket trays that can hold that
175. 6:12many sockets or or have numbers and all
176. 6:14stuff for all those things. So I saw a
177. 6:17hole in the market. Now at some point
178. 6:19master socket sets will get popular
179. 6:20enough that they will make socket trays
180. 6:23to to do this themselves and they'll try
181. 6:25and put me out of business. And they're
182. 6:27welcome to try that. But my my what I
183. 6:30have to do as a first mover is I have to
184. 6:32keep innovating. I can't just develop
185. 6:34one thing and sit back and be like,
186. 6:35"Okay, I've done this is going to be
187. 6:37make my millions. I don't need to
188. 6:39innovate anymore." You always have to
189. 6:40keep innovating, okay? That's a pro tip
190. 6:42there, all right? But back to the
191. 6:44numbers. That was the first 3 months. So
192. 6:47we had a lot of big sales and these
193. 6:49socket trays there's a lot of trays like
194. 6:51I think seven come in the largest sets.
195. 6:53Seven trays in one set. And then people
196. 6:55will order multiple sets. They'll order
197. 6:581/2 in 1/4 in 3/8 in chrome and then
198. 7:01there's five sets on there and there's
199. 7:03two in impact and then there's like
200. 7:04seven and five and I think it's like
201. 7:06something like 23 some socket trays, all
202. 7:09right? They take a while to print, okay?
203. 7:11So that first we had to pull back put
204. 7:13the brakes on and catch up with that.
205. 7:16And then after that it was
206. 7:18uh Black Friday season and the holiday
207. 7:21season. So I pulled back and I didn't
208. 7:23really talk about it I didn't really
209. 7:24advertise it because I had to keep track
210. 7:27of my main business and I wanted to
211. 7:30spend Christmas with my family. So
212. 7:32rather than in the shop, you know,
213. 7:33making socket trays.
214. 7:35So we could we didn't go whole hog. I
215. 7:37didn't really talk about it any more
216. 7:38than I had. I just I I I put like one
217. 7:40mention. I didn't do a whole video. I
218. 7:42didn't do any other kind of updates.
219. 7:43Just kind of like, "Hey, by the way, we
220. 7:45we still have these." I think once or
221. 7:47twice. And and that was it. And it's
222. 7:50kept going. It kept going. Now, I have
223. 7:51mentioned it again recently because
224. 7:53there's going to be a big sale at Harbor
225. 7:55Freight on the master socket trays. And
226. 7:57I And come that sale, which is next
227. 7:59week, after that, we're going to put a
228. 8:01big push in advertising. And guess
229. 8:03what's going to happen? We're probably
230. 8:05going to get a whole bunch of sales and
231. 8:06we'll have to catch up to those as well.
232. 8:08So, this will probably be a recurring
233. 8:10thing every quarter because that's about
234. 8:12how often Harbor Freight advertises.
235. 8:14Every time they advertise those socket
236. 8:15trays or those socket sets, we're going
237. 8:17to advertise our socket trays. They kind
238. 8:19of go together. Every business is going
239. 8:20to have its ups and downs. You have to
240. 8:21learn to ride that wave. Kind of, you
241. 8:23know, go with the surf, as it were. But,
242. 8:26it's, you know, we're looking at just
243. 8:28under 12,000. Our in the pocket was just
244. 8:31under 5,000. Now, full overtime here,
245. 8:35this is year-to-date in the last 2
246. 8:37months, January and February, we've done
247. 8:39just under $3,800. Now, why so little?
248. 8:42Well, as I said, I haven't been really
249. 8:44pushing it. I haven't been talking about
250. 8:46it because uh we had we had one issue
251. 8:49with electricity. And my landlord is an
252. 8:51electrician, which means he never has
253. 8:53time to come and work on my electricity.
254. 8:55He's a good friend of mine. I'm teasing
255. 8:57him. Uh but, I needed him to come down.
256. 8:59We had to redo the whole panel. So, we
257. 9:01just got that done like 2 weeks ago. So,
258. 9:03I was dealing with basically running a
259. 9:05at half uh half of print branch because
260. 9:08if I tried to run everything, my my
261. 9:10breakers would would go. They were old
262. 9:11breakers. It was technical issue. Uh
263. 9:14but, we've redone the whole panel. Now,
264. 9:15I can run everything at once. So, we're
265. 9:17ramping back up and we're all ready for
266. 9:18this next sale. But, it was, you know,
267. 9:20I've got a regular business to run. I
268. 9:22need, honestly, to hire somebody to help
269. 9:24with production for the studio and for
270. 9:27production for the print ranch. Probably
271. 9:29something you won't have to deal with,
272. 9:30okay? Just remember, everyone's in their
273. 9:32own situation. Don't look at somebody
274. 9:34else and go, "Well, you're dealing with
275. 9:35that, I'm going to have to deal with
276. 9:36that." You have to think, is this
277. 9:38something they have to deal with it
278. 9:39because of X, Y, and Z? Do I have X, Y,
279. 9:42and Z? Or do I have other issues I'll
280. 9:44have to deal with? You need to make that
281. 9:46call. But, the reality is we are in a
282. 9:49the dawn, the very dawn, the lights just
283. 9:52coming over the horizon of the golden
284. 9:55age of home manufacturing.
285. 9:57Now, I talk a lot about the death of
286. 10:00gatekeepers. All right, gatekeepers are
287. 10:02people who stop you
288. 10:04from doing something, all right? A big
289. 10:06one, a really obvious one is in
290. 10:07publishing. If you've got a book you
291. 10:09want to publish, you write your book.
292. 10:11This is a great book. You show it to all
293. 10:12your friends and family. They say it's
294. 10:13great. You should get it published. You
295. 10:15send it in to a publisher. At the
296. 10:16publisher, an editor reads it and goes,
297. 10:18"I don't like it." And they throw it
298. 10:19away, and you never get published.
299. 10:21That's a gatekeeper.
300. 10:23Those people have been bypassed through
301. 10:25digital publishing. Now, you can publish
302. 10:28directly on Amazon through Kindle. You
303. 10:30can publish online. There are people
304. 10:32publishing chapters of their book as
305. 10:34they write it. And then those get picked
306. 10:36up and published as actual books. The
307. 10:38Martian was was done this way, okay?
308. 10:41There are great novels and stories out
309. 10:44there being told that are getting
310. 10:45published now because they can go right
311. 10:47past the the gatekeepers. The gatekeeper
312. 10:49is like, "No, we don't want we like we
313. 10:51don't care. We're going to do
314. 10:52ourselves." I have since had Oh, by the
315. 10:53way, I'm a best-selling published
316. 10:55author. So, I know a lot about this. I
317. 10:58have had after I published, no one
318. 10:59wanted to publish my book. Afterwards,
319. 11:01all five of the major print houses
320. 11:03offered to publish my book, and I told
321. 11:04them uh no, thank you. You may kiss my
322. 11:07rear.
323. 11:08Uh but, uh the
324. 11:10the And other things, in in video games,
325. 11:13digital publishing came out. You can
326. 11:14bypass the gatekeepers. In movies,
327. 11:16people are direct directly publishing to
328. 11:18YouTube. Forget, you know, public access
329. 11:20TV. We have YouTube. We can publish
330. 11:22straight to there. So, finally we have
331. 11:25the gatekeeper to manufacturing because
332. 11:27I can buy a 3D printer, print what I
333. 11:30want, and sell it on Etsy. I can sell it
334. 11:32on eBay. I can set up my own Shopify,
335. 11:34sell it directly to you. I can set up my
336. 11:36own Instagram account, TikTok, or
337. 11:38YouTube and market it. I can pay people
338. 11:40to do that. I can do Facebook. You got
339. 11:42to figure out where the people are that
340. 11:44you want to market to. I'm going to do a
341. 11:45whole series on teaching people how to
342. 11:47market. That's what's really important.
343. 11:50And then you have to pace yourself,
344. 11:51okay? As I said, right now my my sales
345. 11:54are slow. It's January and February, the
346. 11:56slowest months of the year
347. 11:57uh for for sales across the board. And
348. 12:00I'm taking time to pull back, retool,
349. 12:03get ready for the you know, the big
350. 12:05spring fling as it were. Now, you don't
351. 12:08have to do this, but I do. I put all
352. 12:11everything that I I sell, in fact,
353. 12:13everything I design, and I put it on my
354. 12:16MakerWorld page. You can go to my
355. 12:17MakerWorld page and download it right
356. 12:20now. I had somebody and you know, my
357. 12:22licensing on it is you can uh you can
358. 12:26make it for yourself, but you can't sell
359. 12:28it. I had somebody approach me and say,
360. 12:29"Hey, I want to be able to sell this. Is
361. 12:32there some kind of licensing thing we
362. 12:33can come up with?" I'm like, "Where are
363. 12:34you going to sell it?" He's like, "I
364. 12:36could sell online, but I'm really
365. 12:37thinking about local fairs and stuff
366. 12:38like that." I'm like, "Well, I'm not
367. 12:40okay with online cuz then you'd be
368. 12:41competing with me. But, if you want to
369. 12:43sell locally,
370. 12:45donate a few bucks to local charities,
371. 12:47help people out." And he's like,
372. 12:49"Brother, I can do that." And he's a
373. 12:50father of four and he's going to jump on
374. 12:53board and he's going to be selling
375. 12:54printing these and selling these. And
376. 12:55that that's awesome. That that makes me
377. 12:57so happy. I don't care about missing out
378. 12:59on that. That's never going to be a
379. 13:01market I'm going to be in. If anything,
380. 13:03people are going to see that, go where
381. 13:04can I get it? Well, they Well, you can
382. 13:06get it from him, but he may be not
383. 13:07selling today. They're like, "Oh, but
384. 13:08you can get it online." Then tools, all
385. 13:11right? They do a search for it, they'll
386. 13:12find it, all right? I have other stuff.
387. 13:14I have the you know, the other things
388. 13:15that I make as well. I've got the the
389. 13:18thing that's hold not the otter, the
390. 13:19actual thing that's holding up my my
391. 13:21plaque because it took a tumble cuz I
392. 13:23did have it just sitting up there and
393. 13:25that was that was bad.
394. 13:27Uh that's the other things we've got
395. 13:29here. Uh Uh I've got the door handles
396. 13:31for the
397. 13:33the the Bamboo Lab three printers that
398. 13:35we have here. The door handle does not
399. 13:37have people like I downloaded the door
400. 13:38handle it doesn't have the logo on it.
401. 13:40No, that's that's my logo. It's the the
402. 13:42the the handle's blank. Uh you you
403. 13:44download you put your own logo on it,
404. 13:46all right?
405. 13:47Uh what else have we got here? We got
406. 13:48Oh, the this thing.
407. 13:50My bearings I have this Buc-ee's mug and
408. 13:54I'm not even trying to get everything
409. 13:55off. I had downloaded a handle for it
410. 13:58cuz I wanted a handle. My wife's got the
411. 14:0040 oz with the handle like I looks
412. 14:02great, but I don't want to buy another
413. 14:03mug. Uh so, I I downloaded this one and
414. 14:06actually this is I upscaled this because
415. 14:09it the handle was really rinky small for
416. 14:11little little paws. And I'm like that's
417. 14:13that's okay, but I want something
418. 14:14beefier cuz I got the big old bear
419. 14:16mitts. And so, I came up with this
420. 14:19and made it totally from scratch and
421. 14:21didn't didn't you know didn't copy them.
422. 14:22It was inspiration surely, but uh
423. 14:25there's a bunch of them out there. And
424. 14:27this thing works great. This is awesome.
425. 14:28I love this, but it's not something I'm
426. 14:30going to sell. I'm not going to take the
427. 14:31time to do that. Uh other things that I
428. 14:33use I downloaded I I downloaded this
429. 14:35recently. Now, this isn't a a video I
430. 14:37have up or not I'm not I mean a a model
431. 14:39that I have up, but uh this is a stand
432. 14:43for a MacBook Air
433. 14:45uh and that I use as my traveling studio
434. 14:47when I'm I'm out and about, but it's
435. 14:49these two pieces and the MacBook sits in
436. 14:51there and then they've got two
437. 14:53connecting pieces and I'm like that's
438. 14:55really annoying having to say it works
439. 14:57great. Don't get me wrong. It works
440. 14:59great and for most people who are just
441. 15:00sitting at their desk, it's fine. But I
442. 15:02have to every time I go from a hotel to
443. 15:03hotel, I have to tear it down and I'm
444. 15:05like I want a hinged version. So, I
445. 15:07designed
446. 15:08this.
447. 15:10Look at this. Print in place hands.
448. 15:12Isn't this awesome? It doesn't work.
449. 15:14First of all, I broke it. This I It's
450. 15:17glued together right now trying to get
451. 15:19it cuz sometimes print in place stuff
452. 15:20kind of sticks and I was a little
453. 15:23exuberant in trying to break it. But the
454. 15:25other thing is that I I did these roll
455. 15:28pins so that it would fit at whatever
456. 15:30angle, but what happens is we sit the
457. 15:32MacBook in it because those are rolled
458. 15:33and these are rolled it makes it slide
459. 15:35together which means it sits right about
460. 15:37here. It's not very stable. Does it
461. 15:39work? Sure. Is it the best thing? No, I
462. 15:42think we're going to go back to the
463. 15:43drawing board on this. But it's my first
464. 15:44design myself print in place hinge and
465. 15:47it worked. So I'm pretty happy about
466. 15:49that. Uh other things we talked about.
467. 15:51Well, there was a I have a whole video
468. 15:54on this. A woman in Montana here
469. 15:56locally. She's not a techie. She's not
470. 15:59some young, you know, spring chicken.
471. 16:01She's not old like me, all right? But
472. 16:02she's, you know, she's just your
473. 16:04average, you know, Montana gal and she's
474. 16:07making these boxes and she sells them
475. 16:09directly to a local ammunition company
476. 16:11who then turns around and sells this as
477. 16:13their as their box. It's fantastic. Now
478. 16:16a lot of you fixated on that video and
479. 16:18like where can I get that box? Where can
480. 16:19I get that I want to print those boxes
481. 16:20and sell them. Don't do that. People are
482. 16:23already doing that. You got to find the
483. 16:25next thing. You got to do what I did
484. 16:27with the socket trays. You got to look
485. 16:28at things you know, look at the areas
486. 16:30you understand that you have subject
487. 16:32matter expertise in
488. 16:34and figure it out. Okay? And figure out
489. 16:36where the hole is and you could do it.
490. 16:37This is what a company This is a tool
491. 16:39that a company just sent me. I did a
492. 16:41video on. This is a um I don't think
493. 16:44it's going to be mass produced like
494. 16:46this. Uh but this is a 3D printed
495. 16:49uh
496. 16:50case for this for this torque
497. 16:52screwdriver. This thing is awesome. It
498. 16:55is really good.
499. 16:57It fits so well. I can I can literally
500. 16:58drop it in there and it just through air
501. 17:01it goes down on its own. Goes in here
502. 17:03and it's got a couple screws, so they do
503. 17:05have two two bolts in there. And then
504. 17:07I got to figure out that snapping
505. 17:09mechanism cuz it's fantastic. I'm I'm
506. 17:11I'm going to steal that. That is
507. 17:13amazing. Uh and other thing I've I've
508. 17:16recently. This is a clip that came out
509. 17:19with that attaches to my desk. And let
510. 17:22me get my faith my hand behind it so you
511. 17:24can see it. What this does is I measured
512. 17:26the width of my desk, this slides on
513. 17:28there, and then I have a pasture I can
514. 17:30put cables through. So, I can run cables
515. 17:32all around my desk. I can also pinch
516. 17:34some in here, that's why it's got this
517. 17:35little curve here. And this also makes a
518. 17:37great way to grab it and pull it off.
519. 17:39Fantastic. Unfortunately, this only
520. 17:41works for my desk. You know, your desk
521. 17:43is probably going to have something
522. 17:45diff- different in width. But if you
523. 17:47were like, "Hey, what's the most popular
524. 17:49desk out there? What's the most popular
525. 17:51width?" And you design something like
526. 17:52this, you could sell these, all right?
527. 17:54Another one is this box. Now, there's a
528. 17:56lot of boxes like this out there. This
529. 17:58one I have designed that I have holds uh
530. 18:02rounds of silver. That Each one of those
531. 18:04is an ounce of silver, currently worth
532. 18:05over $90. Pretty happy about that.
533. 18:07Silver Mountain back. I'll be like, "I
534. 18:09want to I want to sell that box." I'll
535. 18:10be like, "Stop doing that, okay? But it
536. 18:13didn't give me an idea. So, I'm working
537. 18:15on a second rev of that box. But we're
538. 18:18actually going to skip that, go straight
539. 18:19to a third rev, because what I'm going
540. 18:20to do is I want to make a modular box.
541. 18:23I want to make a box that you can go
542. 18:26into a CAD program and be like, "I want
543. 18:28it you know, basically it has like the
544. 18:29corners and the latches." And then
545. 18:31you're like, "I want it to be this wide,
546. 18:33this high, this And then you can do your
547. 18:35own inserts in that box, and then you
548. 18:37can sell those. So, that's something
549. 18:39we're working on. But let's go back
550. 18:40here. So, we talked about about this.
551. 18:43Now, what do I
552. 18:44Now, I started about designing stuff.
553. 18:45So, I do everything in Tinkercad. Yes, I
554. 18:48have said that I am going to learn
555. 18:49Fusion 360. I will. One day, I will set
556. 18:53about time when I am not
557. 18:55completely crunched for time, like
558. 18:56that's going to happen. I'm going to
559. 18:58learn uh Fusion 360. But I designed that
560. 19:01that hinged model you saw in Fusion Or
561. 19:04not Fusion, in Tinkercad. And it's print
562. 19:06in place. Now, I will say this, I do
563. 19:08have to print it on a um
564. 19:10on one of the larger 3D printers. It
565. 19:12will not fit on a standard 256 by 256,
566. 19:14not even diagonally. Uh I could probably
567. 19:16scale it down, change some of the
568. 19:17diameters, and do that. But, this is
569. 19:20where I'm at right now with it, and I'm
570. 19:21I'm still working on it. If I ever get
571. 19:23to a point where I like it, and I think
572. 19:24it's good enough, I will put it on
573. 19:26MakerWorld. Now, what do I print all
574. 19:28these on other than than this item here?
575. 19:31I print it on Bambu Lab, all right? And
576. 19:33the reason I use Bambu Lab specifically,
577. 19:36I have nine of these. I have nine of the
578. 19:38P1Ss. I have three of the H series, and
579. 19:42I have a P2S. The P2S is like my
580. 19:45test printer off the side. The H series
581. 19:47are my large-scale printers, and my nine
582. 19:49printers are my go-to. They're the ones
583. 19:51who print 24/7. Except right now,
584. 19:53they're all down for monthly
585. 19:55maintenance. I got to clean them all
586. 19:56out, re-grease, re-oil, lubricate. But,
587. 20:00this is a workhorse of a 3D printer. And
588. 20:02for $400, fully enclosed in the Bambu
589. 20:06ecosystem, I can't recommend it enough.
590. 20:09Are there workhorse? Can you go with
591. 20:10something cheaper? Yes, there are
592. 20:11cheaper 3D printers out there.
593. 20:13Why spend the money the extra money for
594. 20:15the Bambu? Here's why. At the end of the
595. 20:17day,
596. 20:20what you spend on the 3D printer is
597. 20:21going to be nothing compared to what you
598. 20:24spend on filament.
599. 20:26It's not even close.
600. 20:27Saving $100 on a 3D printer that you
601. 20:31have to fight versus one that just works
602. 20:33within the ecosystem, just works with
603. 20:35their filament, that there's tons
604. 20:37there's good online support, there's
605. 20:39every part you could possibly need, and
606. 20:42there's tons of people out there in the
607. 20:43community who can help you as well,
608. 20:45that's worth more than $100, guys. It
609. 20:48really is. You need to think about that.
610. 20:50All right? I'll put a link to this 3D
611. 20:52printer down below. Please, when you if
612. 20:53you can, use my links cuz they're
613. 20:55affiliate links, and we get a small
614. 20:56commission off of that. Doesn't affect
615. 20:58you. It comes comes out of their pocket,
616. 20:59all right? That's how we, you know, pay
617. 21:01for the channel and stuff like that. So,
618. 21:03if you can, check it out. Anyway, the
619. 21:05point of the matter is this.
620. 21:08I can do this.
621. 21:10You can do this. Cuz if I can do it, you
622. 21:12can do it, all right? Yes, I have easy
623. 21:14access because of my channel, but you
624. 21:17could buy that access. And chances are
625. 21:19you're not ready to hit full, you know,
626. 21:22talk to somebody who's at my size and
627. 21:24get that level of orders. I've had uh I
628. 21:27think it was 200 and some orders uh
629. 21:31let me total total orders
630. 21:33No, I take it back. It was three 150.
631. 21:36Ooh, 150 even orders that we've had. And
632. 21:39my conversion rate is terrible. My
633. 21:40conversion rate is .48.
634. 21:43Way lower than yours is going to be. But
635. 21:45my conversion rate is that low because I
636. 21:47get a lot of looky-loos who want to see
637. 21:49what I'm doing for my main channel. They
638. 21:50see it, they have no intention to buy
639. 21:51it. They just want to go see what I'm
640. 21:52doing.
641. 21:53You won't have that problem, all right?
642. 21:56Uh and as such, you know, on Etsy that
643. 21:58would be bad for me because Etsy would
644. 21:59see that as low conversion and not
645. 22:01promote my products as much. So, be
646. 22:03careful about showing that around. If
647. 22:05you have questions, put it down below in
648. 22:07the comments.
649. 22:08I am going to probably do a course.
650. 22:12Right after I learn Fusion, probably,
651. 22:14when I get the free time to make it. I
652. 22:15get so many people asking for help. I
653. 22:17want to do this, I want to do this.
654. 22:19I can help you with the answers to what
655. 22:21would be the best printer for this, what
656. 22:23would be the best way to market this,
657. 22:24what would be But don't sit there and
658. 22:26ask me what should I make. I can't
659. 22:28answer that for you. You have to look at
660. 22:29what you know, what you're excited
661. 22:31about, as well as what markets you have
662. 22:33access to, and where those two meet
663. 22:36is then you got to find the hole, and
664. 22:38once you find that hole, that's what you
665. 22:40should make, all right? Anyway, hope
666. 22:42this helped you out with that. If you
667. 22:45like what we did here, go ahead and
668. 22:46chomp the old like button, smash that
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670. 22:49You all take care. God bless. As always,
671. 22:52shine on.
672. 23:15>> Mhm.