Gothic Deco Flask (Patreon)

Hi there, wonderful people!

The world is full of inspiration!  Sometimes that inspiration comes from looking at interesting venue ceilings when you're supposed to be paying attention to the band you went to see.  The ceiling in question had ventilation ducts with mesh over them, and I really liked the depth that gave.  So I started designing things in my head and tried not to forget it all before I got home and could scrawl things on one of the many dot-paged notebooks I have scattered around the house.

That concept eventually became a bit more refined, and turned into the stylishly-gothic thing you see before you!  The toughest decisions were which orientation things would print in, because that really did dictate the curves that could be involved.

So, what are we looking at, anyway?  Well, it's a flask with a screw-in lid!  But that lid is obviously somewhat ornate.

Filament note: Printed in Bambu marble and PolyTerra red.

In fact, the lid is in three parts!  The main lid body has a threaded inside, into which a (presumably colourful) insert is screwed, followed by a detailed mesh thingy that ends up suspended above the colourful part.  The inset parts are all set into the lid so that they can't become inadvertently loosened through the normal use of the lid.

Print Description

This is a regular mode print made for screw-together assembly.  While the tolerances are fairly generous you'll still want to make sure things aren't too messy!

Print Dimensions

The main body of the flask occupies 96mm x 96mm on the print bed and is 95mm tall.

Supports Needed?

Not at all!  Designed for straightforward printing!

Scalability

The Gothic Deco Flask should scale up reasonably well since the screw parts will take up the extra space introduced by scaling up the tolerances.

Print Orientation

Each part prints right-way-up, including the two insert parts that screw into the lid.

File Location

You'll find this one at at 540 Gothic Deco Flask

Link to dropbox post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/31697592

Further Thoughts

One interesting thing about threads is that not all threads work well when printed.  I started out by using conventional ISO metric threads for the inserts, but they were very easy to cross-thread, which caused all sorts of problems.  So, I rebuilt using some smooth, stretched-out threads instead, and things worked much, much better!

Happy printing!

xoxo

Sven.