Lovely project and a really great idea.
Have you come across soft tooling for injection moulding? It's a lower cost, short run approach using much less durable moulds from various materials.
Have you come across soft tooling for injection moulding? It's a lower cost, short run approach using much less durable moulds from various materials.
Besides the lack of flexibility if you want to make changes. I've used soft tooling for some projects but I was (1) never really happy with the results and (2) ended up breaking the molds quite often resulting in a lot of wasted material and expense. 3D printing is the way to go for projects such as these.
I didn't know that was a thing - I'm going to look into it.