Three Dee-Forever Stainless

09/19/2026

Happy Friday Everyone 😻

It's been an interesting week 😅 It finally feels like we're out of the Summer Doldrums, and maybe Fall, might, MAYBE, be on the way...

📰The News-news📰

Things are moving along okay, but there are some storm-clouds on the horizon. I'm not getting into politics in any flavor, but, there are some effects landing that we have to watch. Foremost, the diesel prices and shortage. 😬 We depend heavily on logistics services to bring out the things we need, and none of this bodes well for any of us.

In other news, Creality has sent us a SparkX-i7 and a K2SE C-4 to evaluate and review 😸 We're looking forward to putting these machines through their paces. Look for more on these in the coming weeks. In the same line of thought, we've been working with the Flashforge Creator 5 and we'll be posting a review soon.

Only one more day Friday-hours left! 🙀 Our last Friday at the market for regular sales will be September 26th!

And in that line of thought, we are reworking both Three Dee's side and Forever Stainless. Over the last several months, Three Dee has grown by leaps and bounds. 🤩🥳😹🥳🤩 So that we can keep growing, we're rearranging the sales floor to make things easier for you and us as well. This will take the entire month of October, and we hope to have it done by the time we open the Printer Holiday Season - remember! The line for Christmas Printers starts November 1st!!! 🎅🏾

But now...

🤩🥳😹😻New Products!!!😻😹🥳🤩

We have an exciting spread for you tonight! While we really wanted to have a full case of our standard premium critters, but we just ran out of time to get the opossums done... 😹 We'll get those guys going in the coming week :)

The rest is all rock stars... 🙀

Keeping with our whimsical-ish theme for the fast-approaching spooky season, we made our Mushroom Turtles 🐢 Giving them another layer, we made them with glow-in-the-dark material!

Keeping with where we're headed, the Boss cranked out some new arrangements in her Modern Flowers line 🌼 I've named this one "A kiss from the shadow" in my head.

We're always getting requests for Highland Cows 🐂 and I finally managed to chase down a model that met my standards 😹 I'm working on more color schemes for them 😸

And I figured since we've already got Mushroom Turtles, we might as well stay on theme and bring out the Mushroom Frogs! 🍄🐸 Before I move on, I want to do a quick shout-out for one of our new neighbors, Papa Da Fungi! He's two booths away, and he has all kinds of yummy treats! (the white frog is for him, but don't spoil the surprise!) When you come buy to see us, be sure to pop by and check him out! You can find more info about him at https://www.papadafungi.com/

We also tried out a new frog model from one of the artists we already license from (so it only really cost us a download to try him out) and we think we might try out more of these guys.🐸

But now, we come to our headlining rock star...🐙🤖 We've taken a few runs at this particular model, and we weren't happy with the first few results... So much so that we didn't even show them to you... 🙀 This time, though, we have something that we can be proud of and that you can appreciate 😸 We're proud to present to you our Peppermint Robo-Octopuss 😹 This guy is one of the most lengthy and weighty prints we've ever presented to you, and we hope you enjoy the incredible detail and intricacy of the beautiful model... And it glows in the dark too!

For now, it's time for me to call it a day. Come see us tomorrow in Building 3, #72, 73, 74, and 31 - at the Tri-Cities Flea Market. If you're coming in the front door, look for our blinking sign in the distance, all the way down in the corner where you turn towards building 4, right across from Sweet Talkz.
Coming in the back door, turn left, go around the corner, and you'll find us right across from Bill's Coins/ Kingsport Coin and Jewelry.
You guys Be Safe, watch the heat - and the humidity is going to make it feel even worse (High 80's, both Saturday and Sunday!), and we'll see you tomorrow 😻

09/18/2026

We're going to be running very late this morning, owing to an unusual bit of dishonesty from a normally reliable printer... IYKYK 😅

No ETA at this time, but don't be surprised if it's noon or later before we get in.

09/12/2026

The story of my life...

listen, I can't have these people thinking I make crap

09/12/2026

Adding a rack to cart now

09/12/2026

Happy Friday Everyone😻

It's been another busy week, saying goodbye to Summer and remembering 9-11. Let's plow right into the...

📰News-news📰

As we start eyeballing a shift to cooler weather (any time here, Momma Nature... 😾), we're shifting gears into some new and fun ideas. We've never produced much specific to holidays, but do look for some upcoming little adjustments for Halloween... We'll show you in a little bit.

To celebrate a return to Momma Nature NOT trying to cook us, we will be doing another sale event soon. 😹

But there's something a little less fun that we need to talk about 🫣 After giving Fridays a good, fair shake, it's looking like we're going to need to rethink our schedule. There's just not enough activity to justify giving up a full day of production, a condensed teaching schedule, and let's not overlook the heightened wear and tear on me and the Boss. 😭 As much as I don't like it, our Friday hours aren't serving us or you very well. With me and the Boss already over a year out from our last planned day off, this is wear and tear we can't afford.

After 6 months worth of Fridays, starting the week of October 1st, we will no longer be keeping Friday hours. 🙀 We'll be taking this back to the drawing board to try to figure out how to best serve you 🥹

But that'll be enough of that for now... It's time for...

🤩🥳😹😻NEW PRODUCTS😻😹🥳🤩

When have a Trio of rock-stars for you tonight, and we revisited some some old friends along the way... most with a spooky season twist... 👻

Falkor, buddy? Is that you? 🙀 You been playing with kryptonite?

And there's our old friends, the crystal dragons 🐉 also looking like they went to work with Homer Simpson...

From here, we're on to unfamiliar faces... 😹 Our new friends, the Gargoyles, one with a custom glowing the dark adjustment to make him stand out a little in the dark 😸

Next is a little friend that's been waiting a long, long time 🐸🤠 Our Cowboy Frog was a model that was scheduled a long, long time ago, but an untimely equipment breakdown forced us to pivot, and we've only just realized the oversight that he didn't get his turn in the spotlight 😹 With Halloween in the offing, what better time to give him his time in the spotlight?

Keeping to a theme, we have another mash-up 🍓🐢🍫 Our Chocolate Strawberry Sea Turtle! We're going to keep with these mash-up styles as we get closer to the Spooky Season's conclusion.

Last, we updated the presentation of our Planet Litho Pendant lights, and while I'm pleased with that specific part, overall, I'm not happy with how this one came out 😠 Uranus looks wrong 😹

Jokes aside, this one is going to have to be redone because I screwed up. 😬 When I made the adjustments in size, I neglected to thin out the walls so that light could shine through as expected. That has Uranus's (you're welcome 😹) color tint off, and while the light fixture throws copious amounts of light, the main feature of Uranus (again, you're welcome 🤣) itself doesn't show up well at all. This is one that my inner artist-tyrant isn't going to allow to rest.

For now, it's time for me to call it a day. Come see us tomorrow in Building 3, #72, 73, 74, and 31 - at the Tri-Cities Flea Market. If you're coming in the front door, look for our blinking sign in the distance, all the way down in the corner where you turn towards building 4, right across from Sweet Talkz.

Coming in the back door, turn left, go around the corner, and you'll find us right across from Bill's Coins/ Kingsport Coin and Jewelry. Also new to our corner that you'll pass on the way from this direction is the new Mushroom vendor.

You guys Be Safe, watch out for the rain (80 tomorrow with showers forecast to start at noon, and a slightly warmer Sunday with scattered chances of showers all day long), and we'll see you tomorrow 😻

09/05/2026

Happy Friday Everyone 😻

It's been another real meat-grinder of a week 😭 We do have a couple of silver-linings, but let's slog through the...

📰News-news📰

This was one of those weeks where you look up and say, "Look, just tell me what I did wrong and I promise I'll never do it again... 😿 Please?! 🥺"

We worked all week long on our hanging lamp conversion for Uranus this time... It did not go well. 😖 I'm still trying to work out exactly what the problem is, but I'm thinking that I might have to make radical changes to my approach.

Through all of that, the fight continues with both large format machines. The Ender 5 Max's leveling system is famously twitchy, and I'm officially fed up. 😾🤬 So, we have a Cartographer probe on the way... These are incredibly neat - they use the electromagnetic field of the heat bed's magnet to accurately "scan" the bed. The conversion process is going to be... Less-fun, but if it gets this machine back online and to quit being a nightmare, it's a bargain at twice the price in time and money. This SHOULD *we interrupt your regularly scheduled speil to knock on wood* be the last phase of nonsense with this machine.

The K2 Plus has been equally recalcitrant, with problem after problem. Every issue resolved reveals two more. 😭 Hopefully the next wave of parts with bring this happy nonsense to an end as well.

Our 3,000th Student Sale was a wild success 😹 Many people took home new printers, both at a discount and with extra filament. We will be having another sale soon for Labor Day/Good-bye to Summer, so stay tuned! 😸

But for the rest of the good news, it's time to shift gears to...

🤩🥳😹😻NEW PRODUCTS😻😹🥳🤩

It hasn't all been frustration and four-letter-word expositions. We managed to make a full run of our new White-Tailed Deer... Just look for them quickly - they were all gone by noon Saturday last week! 🙀

We did lose immense amounts of time to the Uranus shenanigans, but, we learned a bit in the process. With some luck, we'll be able to bring that home next week 🤞

We did have time for a couple of little special somethings... 😹 First, because we've done so much cat, it was time to balance things out and do some of the goodest boys 🐕🐩🐕‍🦺 The puppy lamps are so cute, and we can't wait to bring you more in this line of thought.

Also, we brought something else special... We managed to make a lamp that captures the creation of Cristo Redentor 🙀 For those of you not familiar, Cristo Redentor (Or Christ the Redeemer) is the statue of Jesus that watches over Rio De Janeiro from on the ridge over the city. This model proved quite challenging, and while we look forward to bringing more of them to you as we refine the model process, supplies are going to be limited in the early days 😹

For now, it's time for me to call it a day. Come see us tomorrow in Building 3, #72, 73, 74, and 31 - at the Tri-Cities Flea Market. If you're coming in the front door, look for our blinking sign in the distance, all the way down in the corner where you turn towards building 4, right across from Sweet Talkz.
Coming in the back door, turn left, go around the corner, and you'll find us right across from Bill's Coins/ Kingsport Coin and Jewelry.
You guys Be Safe, watch the heat - it's going to be really bad tomorrow!!! (Crazy-hot with afternoon thunderstorms on Saturday with Sunday almost as hot!), and we'll see you tomorrow 😻

08/29/2026

Happy Friday Everyone 😻

It's... been a week... Yeah... So let's just soldier on into the...

📰News-news📰
This week's most prominent feature is I took a NASTY fall 😬 So simple, so stupid, and my right hand mostly our of commission all week 😭 That didn't stop me from getting some prints done, but it stopped all maintenance work cold and has been a constant obstruction to teaching all week long 😿

We've continued working with the Flashforge Creator 5, and it's been a mixed bag 🧐 We gave it the exclusive job of one of our model types for this weekend and while it didn't disappoint, it was more trouble than it needed to be.

This weekend is also the last week of our 3,000th Student Sale 😹 Don't miss your chance for a 10% discount or extra rolls of filament for your new printer! We still have 5 printers in stock and when they're gone, they're gone! 🙀

We do plan to do another, different sort of sale soon, so stay tuned! 😸

We also managed to get some more color chips done this week, so don't hesitate to ask to see them!

Last in the realm of news, Three Dee has been growing at a fantastic rate, and we couldn't be more pleased 😹 It's come to a point that the way our store-space is set up isn't working so well anymore. Our filament is not as easy for you to get to as we want, plus we need room for that to grow. We've added PETG filament to our offerings now, and it's squeezing us tightly while making our display a little awkward to navigate.

To better serve you and make our space work better for us, we're going to be reworking it entirely 🙀 We will be adding more filament display space so we have room to grow even more. My workstation will be moving to a more-central area where I can reach many more people at once and be able to teach more effectively. Also, this will lead into the technical services that we've been excited to start offering you for a long time 😹

This is going to be a weeks-long process, and we're still in the preparation and planning stages, so look for more on this as we progress 😻

And with that, we're going to dive into...

🤩🥳😹😻NEW PRODUCTS!!!😻😹🥳🤩

Today, we're revisiting some old classics on the way to our pair of rock stars 😻 Being down a wing, I decided to go down a path that was overdue for another walk... This both gave me a little help and let me revisit some old friends.

We started with the Cherry Blossom Dragons... It's been a long while since we've brought these to you 😹 and these are a first - done entirely with Matte filament. Matte filaments are great for de-emphasizing layer lines in many cases, however, they can also tell on any VFA (vertical fine artifact) issues you might have.

Next, we revisited our old favorites, the Gemstone Dragons and (not pictured) Baby Crystal Dragons 😹 With new combinations of filaments (a Sunlu translucent gradient and Numakers Neptune Starlight) both came out beautifully!

Last before out rock stars, we have the recent redesign of our Baby T-Rex, and now with their camouflage patterns complete 😹 We used these to showcase two colors that we haven't used yet - Lagoon Blue and Water Blue 😸 These models were done exclusively with the Flashforge Creator 5, and it did a good job.

Last, we've added a set to our Premium Critter line - a White-tail Doe and Buck 😻 These have been a long while coming, and I'm still working with them - you know me... if it's not perfect, my work isn't done 😅 We only had time for this pair this week, but we will be adding more of these going forward.

For now, it's time for me to call it a day. Come see us tomorrow in Building 3, #72, 73, 74, and 31 - at the Tri-Cities Flea Market. If you're coming in the front door, look for our blinking sign in the distance, all the way down in the corner where you turn towards building 4, right across from Sweet Talkz.

Coming in the back door, turn left, go around the corner, and you'll find us right across from Bill's Coins/ Kingsport Coin and Jewelry.
You guys Be Safe, watch the weather (hot and dry, both Saturday and Sunday, so stay cool and watch of the signs of heat exhaustion!), and we'll see you tomorrow 😻