Corey's Custom Designs
3D Printing, Design

Transcript

Corey Sheehan: My name is Corey Sheehan. I'm in Salisbury, North Carolina. We do all types of 3-D printing, whether it be we, you know, take files. We are patrion supporters of the few members that we're able to print their stuff and  sell their files. We do custom orders. We do design work. We haven't had many orders of that because we're still new. But we are able to make designs and print on demand like that. 

Voiceover: Corey started 3-D printing and has only gotten more and more hooked as he's explored the possibilities, which is how Corey's Custom Designs began. 

CS: But it's still very new to us as well, and we're exploring all the different avenues that we can take. As of now, we've been doing events, the vendor shows. We always go through you guys and we go with Sunny Day Markets. I think we've done about six shows so far and each one has come out with a really good response. Well, my cousin and I, we took the time, we went out, do events, you know, we put the time and the research and all the man hours to run the machines, even though they kind of run themselves, but got to, you know, do the work to make them run their sales.

Yeah. Just going out to events, we got, you know, business cards and stuff made and all of that just to try to help. But really the events are our big thing. Going to and meeting all these new people and it's you never know who you're going to meet there. It's amazing. Just seeing how amazed people are by like where we are in today's technology when it comes to 3-D printing and how many people, how many kids are aware and how many parents are unaware. It just blows my mind that the kids are telling me stuff about the printers that I'm just now finding out and they would say “yeah  we found out this stuff in school and our STEM classes and all that.” The parents looked so surprised. They're like, I didn’t know any of this 

VO: 3-D printing was unaffordable early, but the printers have become more accessible and for a very interesting reason.

CS: So it was about, I want to say about a year and a half ago now, I went to an auction. I was looking to get a ps5 for my wife. That was the only place we could ever find one. And while we were there, we saw a 3D printer. And I had always been interested in them because there was a big hype about them a few years ago, but they were always just so expensive. And then when I saw it at the auction was going for like $300, I said, there's no way I looked online and I ended up finding that they just started 3D printing 3D printers. They dropped the price a whole lot, so I was able to get a nice 3D printer and it's just, I fell in love with it from there. I've done plastic extrusion for the past ten years, so I'm basically doing it at home at a small-scale model now. 

I originally started it as to slowly working on while I was working here and there to try to get some type of contract with someone to start making the same product over and over. But then as my cousin, he, he ended up having to quit his job because he was diagnosed with M.S. over a few years ago, and he started getting pretty bad with it. But  I offered him to be my partner in this and he said he would do it. And like he did a printing press for over ten years. So it's kind of two things combined together. So it's just I think it worked out for both of us. 

VO: When do people use 3D printers? As they've become more available, people are finding lots of opportunities.

CS: A lot of the young people that are into like Dungeons and Dragons and miniatures and stuff like that,they were telling us that they go out and buy, you know, pieces this big for $80. And now they're like, we can print them ourselves now. But it's just it, it just makes, I see 3D printers within the next ten years being like a household item, like a microwave. They're just so useful. 

VO: Printing for people may only be the beginning for Corey. The future could be selling printers and teaching people the possibilities. 

CS: I want to start selling printers, because a lot of times people ask about them, like, how do we get one? And I tell one, just go on Amazon, you pick them up and I tell you about, um, like there's a place called Micro Center. The closest one for me was like 6 hours away, I wish it was closer. But they had deals going on all the time where you can pick up a 3D printer for a hundred bucks. I hope to, eventually, during our events, you know, just say hey, we have some you know, you want some. We make these! 

VO: we love having small businesses who are pushing the possibilities of technology and ready to join your next event, here at Eventeny.