Necklace Surgery

Today I finally got my hands on my 3D printed necklace and I couldn't have been more excited to open the boxes.

Upon opening the boxes the parts were a little more stuck together but they looked like a beautiful city scape. 

 

All beauty aside they needed to be separated from each other in order to bend and form to the body. And so I brought out the big guns to get it done. 

Armed with an array of medical tools and many sets of gloves I carefully sliced each part from its neighbor, scraped off the connecting parts and then strung them onto the seperate 3D printed chain. 

After 4 hours, 4 pairs of gloves, 7 exacto blades and one bandaid I finally have the piece together. 

As each part is hollow I decided to have one end of the necklace be printed together with the chain and have the other end be able to be clipped on once the other parts were strung together. This is where the medical clamps came into use. While I had calculated the distance needed to fit the final link onto the necklace I hadn't planned for how small of a space that would be. Holding the end of the chain in one clamp and holding the end cap in the other I finally managed to snap the end onto the chain. I am very glad that I ordered a spare end cap just in case I broke one while asembling the necklace. Thankfully I didn't need it but it's good to have around should anything go wrong.