Correct but you have to supply the 3D CAD file and you have to buy the strings ;-)
Now for a small fee I can do the CAD file....... Ha,Ha. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Taco Walstra Sent: 15 May 2009 11:06 To: lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: Luthier , Engineered Best , Fastest , Cheapest[Scanned] On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:40 +0100, Narada wrote: So, If I understand well: you order a lute and after a week there is a box delivered containing your lute. You open the box and you can start playing on a white plastic lute (or a paper or wax model)..... " > You will pay to them not me. Its not expensive. > You will receive your instrument in one week . Please read below > written details and technologies and prepare your mind to the 21th > century. > Yes that's lute playing 21 th century proper. And a lot faster than this brazilian guy! ;-) Taco > Collective All, > > I don't think this guy is for real. This is a scam. > > What he is offering is something called Rapid Prototyping. A process > whereby you supply him with 3d CAD files; usually of a type known as > .STL, which are then sent to a Rapid Prototype printer. I won't go > into the way it works. If you read his opening lines this is what he > is asking for. What you would get back is a plastic or wax model that > is fully functional but only in one colour ( usually white ) . The > production process is expensive. The hardware e.g. printers cost > around £60000 each for those that produce models no bigger than a > shoebox, (you can buy kits for about £2000, which is probably what our > mailer has, but the end product is appalling ). > > My business, which is in 3D visualisation, animation and 3D modelling > offers this service thru' a third party company. He's right when he > says you'll get it back in a week, the actual printing process is > quite quick. But once you load it with strings it will just come > apart. > > As for his little statement about seismographs. It's actually > seismometers that pick up the movements in the ground, that's then > transmitted to the seismograph, which plots it. > > My advice! Don't bother. > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
