Experimenting with wood filaments using a big nozzle - quick prints,

Experimenting with wood filaments using a big nozzle - quick prints, still plenty of detail here.

Originally shared by Richard Horne

Quick print of a terracotta warrior in wood filament - quite pleased with it - considering this is with a 1.0mm Hardened volcano nozzle and the model size is only about 130mm high - the small details still came out well. Print time was 4 hours 2 minutes (8% infill - single perimeter).

Great model by Lolita kuma - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1028560

Need to drop the temperature (this was 208) a little more, getting some stringing on the support material sections. Maybe a tiny little more retraction too.

I would say flow rate is about spot-on, wood filaments benefit from slight under-extrusion rates.

Is the model available? Could you post a link to it please?

Why does the print look grey on the head and brown on the body?

@Mark_Wheadon It’s already in the post - click read more and you will get the link to the model.

@andrew_fox It’s a little about different lighting, but also because wood filaments change colour with temperature, so when the print slows down towards the top sections, the colour gets slightly darker. Cura has a nice plugin to lower the temperature as speed changes or at a layer height, but this was sliced with Simplify3D.

@Richard_Horne Oops, thanks – I should have noticed that.

Thanks @Richard_Horne ​. I thought that it might be lighting to a certain extent but as a “newbie”, and having not yet got a working printer, I want sure. :slight_smile:

Thanks @Richard_Horne ​. I thought that it might be lighting to a certain extent but as a “newbie”, and having not yet got a working printer, I want sure. :slight_smile: