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Printing the wooden sake cup

Something a little unexpected for you today, as this was a quick and easy design I thought might enhance our gaming tables - a wooden sake cup!



▲ This is what the genuine article looks like, and although they are found everywhere in Japan, they are probably much harder for you to come by in the rest of the world! And I thought that was unfair, as they make brilliant cups for randomly drawing game tokens or even as a dice cup. So I decided to try and make as accurate a replica as possible...

▲ So I did some print tests with various woodgrain patterns, and this is the end result!

The cup is a 90mm square wooden box, with an open top. I modelled curved surfaces inside, so it's easy to grab tokens, and the 60mm depth inside (70mm total height) is enough to prevent players from seeing inside when drawing.

Three patterns are included; a blank wooden version, a version with a 30mm circle inset on the front (for inserting your favourite clan crests), and a version with the kanji characters for bushido (samurai warrior code) engraved on the front.

▲ The 30mm crest symbol for the Yamato Clan (also known as the Imperial symbol) is included in this set, but you might like to match your cup to your army's crest?

But here's another interesting option for you..... this cup makes a great gift, as it's ideal for embossing your own club/shop logo or name on the front, using free 3D modelling software. Tomorrow's blog will show exactly how to do that in just a few minutes! Honestly, it's much, much easier than you might think.

▲ Just one final pic to show you... the box on the left was printed at 0.2mm layers, but I printed the box on the right at 0.1mm layers, curious to see the difference. The kanji engravings might perhaps be slightly neater for the higher resolution print, but to be honest the rest of the wood-grain pattern is almost identical! That was a surprise.

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