Madrid based Tripsion is offering a real personal take on 3D printed jewellery through its new online store. The company has begun offering a range of personalized necklaces, rings and accessories that combine high definition 3D printing technologies with chains and rings
Customers can chose between original and unique 3D printed versions of the items, for example pendants with entire poems written on them, or intricate flowery and geometric structures. They also have an alternative option for personalisation and order rings and/or necklaces displaying the person’s name (or other selected favourite words) by using photos of their own handwriting.
Most products are manufactured in resin, which marks a somewhat new territory for a start-up. Up until now, in fact, most start-ups rely on low-cost FDM technologies, while high level resin manufacturing has predominantly been adopted by industrial jewel manufacturers.
The price of high-quality, entry-level SLA 3D printers has been coming down – a trend started by the Form 1, that continued with 3D Systems’ Projet 1200 and will continue further with DWS’s XFab. The similar DLP process is following this trend too with an ever growing range of open source DLP systems available for making resin based manufacturing accessible to smaller companies and designers. The most notable of these in recent weeks is the new Autodesk open source DLP 3D printer, but EnvisionTEC is the longest standing manufacturer in this space and like 3D Systems is offering micro machines at lower costs than its traditional range of industrial machines. Asiga and Miicraft are two other companies operating in this space. The Titan 1 and the M-One are others entering the space.
For Tripsion, the SLA process is viewed not just as an intermediate process to prepare models for lost wax casting, but as a mean to produce the end-use, unique, jewellery piece. With extreme details and a growing choice of aesthetically pleasing materials to perfect it.
Tripsion is doing this while maintaining an accessible price on all the items, that range from less than 10 euro to just over 20 euro. Nevertheless some of the shapes available are impossible to produce without additive manufacturing, with the added value of extreme personalization.
Making your own writing into art is nothing new. People have been getting handwritten tattoos for ages, and tattoos are a prime example of personalization. The best part about this, however, is that – when you break up with the person whose name you’ve written – you can simply change the necklace.
