Wyatt from Va

Howdy do from southwest VA, not west va, but in the lower left corner of va. It’s down here in the hills don’t associate with va city folks up north lol. Anyways, my names Wyatt. Me and a buddy have a print shop, called Imagination3D. Started Jan 1 of 2025. Also run and operate another business in the same location called HillBillyGrowCompany, which has been up and running since 2021. We provide our community with all their growing needs. Whether it’s tomatoes or corn on the cob, green beans, etc. and yes, specializing in helping with your cannabis grow. (Va allows everyone to grow up to 4 plants at a time)

Maybe scratching your head…..a weed store that sells shirts and make graphics and banners along with 3d printing??? On paper it sounds odd but it’s been going really well. 2 reasons why: As you could imagine winter time for us is a very dead time of year as most growers in this area only grow outdoors. Second, when we first started the grow side, several little add ons to use inside of grow tents were being requested by customers, mostly very small items. Looked every where but the prices, for the size of product, was very high. I have a background in vinyl cutting and design, and every gas station you walked into had shelves of kids toys (articulating, flexi dragons, you get the point…and they were always selling) insert :light_bulb: I had a thought, we could make our own accessories for the grow tents for customers, instead of ordering online, at way too high price, at the same time make a few dollar bills during the winter time. And that’s how it started.

Started out having absolutely zero knowledge of 3d printing, i googled buy 3d printer, Creality popped up first. So naturally without doing any research :neutral_face: grabbed a k1Max simply because they were pushing a sales pitch about the speed of the machine and I liked that it was enclosed. A few months into being noobs of 3d print world i could foresee we definitely wanted to do multicolor. Current date we run 2 k2Plus machines with CFS on each, 1 Bambu x1c with dual ams2pro units, 2 Elegoo 8k resin printers, Atomstack laser engraver and a Sainsmart cnc machine. It’s not a huge amount of gear but I’m proud of where we’ve made it in one year.

I guess that’s about it. Hoping this forum is useful, not full of haters i guess. I’ve got a notebook full of questions, so I’m going to start in the morning seeing if any of them might be on here.
That’s it, nice to meet everyone, have a blessed day.