The Stone Garden Bookend Collection

A bookend collection inspired by overgrown gardens and ancient ruins.
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updated April 17, 2023

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The Stone Garden Bookend Collection was inspired by overgrown gardens and ancient ruins. It features three sets, each with three different kinds of bookends:

  1. A planter bookend: the bookend itself includes a drainage tray that holds one of the three pots, also part of the set.
  2. A valet bookend: this bookend is suited to storing wallets, keys, thumb drives, hex wrenches and whatever else you need.
  3. A standard flat bookend. 

Also included are three pots, which can each be used with any of the styles.

Print Settings

Note: as of this writing, only the Garden Wall set has been tested. I will be testing the other two sets soon, but I have confidence they will print well.

All of these should print fine in PLA or PETG. Take special note that you have enough solid top layers and perimeters if you print the pots and pot tray bookends. For anything that might come in contact with water I recommend the following:

  1. 0.2mm layer height
  2. 4+ top solid layers
  3. 3 perimeters
  4. 15-20% infill

For pieces that do not come in contact with water, you can back off these settings (e.g. 2 perimeters, 8% infill) and get an increase in print speed.

These work great with 0.6mm Nozzles, but a 0.4 will work as well (it'll just take a lot longer). 

Experimental Settings

The pieces you see in the photos were printed on a 0.4mm nozzle using 0.6mm nozzle settings in PrusaSlicer. I was incredibly surprised with the quality and speed of the results, however time will tell in terms of layer adhesion. The filament shown is Prusament Galaxy Black.

 

 

 

Model origin

The author marked this model as their own original creation.

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