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@@studwhelm Unpopular opinion : For 1kg there is at least 250g who go the " trash " if you are printing mecanical parts even if you are a god in 3d modelling. By " trash " i mean a plastic bag with a note on this hopping someday who can recycle finger in the nose.
You should definitely check out strong hero 3D’s “shadow red” filament! It looks especially beautiful on busts I’ve found really highlighting details with black while the main color is a gorgeous red that can be shiny when printed slowly or more matte when printed quickly! Wonderful stuff! Also it’s a coextrusion pla shell with petg core. They definitely did some witchcraft because normally those two don’t stick together but this one does!
It would be awesome if there was a standard on pigment percentage. I hate buying a spool of white only to receive one that looks slightly transparent or not as vibrant/vivid as a really solid white.
@@thenextlayer I’ve been leaning heavily into Fillamentum now, despite the slightly higher cost per kg. Their spools are 750g, for me that’s an advantage, more colour diversity in less space, but the quality is exceptional. Give them a try, and if they share some discount codes please let us know ;)
@@thenextlayer Hello Jonathan, This is Charlie from Fillamentum. It's amazing to hear that the community loves our filaments! Thank you. We should definitely connect. We are also celebrating our 10th anniversary this fall! Feel free to write to me at karel.kunz@fillamentum.com, and let's have a nice little call and chat. We can discuss what your community would love to see and share what we are working on at the moment. Best regards, Charlie
Fav will always be two tone ones like 3Djake's "magic PLA" Throwing some petrol on the fire for who was first with Galaxy black - My first order for.... Flashforge Galaxy Black on a 250g spool was, accourding to gmail... 2017, wouldn't be the first time someone copied them!
Sliceworks CAN YOU SAY out of stock! is this even made in US? sent email no answer, tried to chat, no answer, called went to voicemail. Please stop promoting places that do not want customers...
Galaxy black, you’re crazy :-) a little sponsor bias. I think the poly maker actually looks the worst. And the sparkles are too dominant. Really chunky and kind of tacky looking like quartz PLA. Part of the reason you’re seeing Prusa being a little lighter because it actually is a nice matte finish instead of that more cheap looking shiny black like the other two.
@@thenextlayer Yeah, Love them! have ordered from them spare parts for p1s the other week as they are the only ones who actually care these stuff and have them in stock.. It would be great if you get sponsorship form caliber3d, seeing that you also like PoyTerra Matte, and get sponsorship discount, I'd be more than happy to use it :P wink wink Thank you for your quick reply
not a beautiful filament, but by far the best PLA that I have used Elegoo pla Pro it’s a little challenging to print the first time, but it gives me fantastic results and it is dirt cheap smoother, stronger, and more resilient than all other PLA+
Thanks for introducing me to new filaments & manufacturers! I'm looking for alternatives to Bambu Labs after having a horrible customer experience with them trying to get them to honor their misleading cancellation policy.
5:57 I guess this is a hot take or something, but I really don't mind layer lines, and I don't know why people always make such a big deal about them 🤷🏿♀️ I honestly think the messy looking faces look worse..
Some of my personal favorite colors: -Flashforge/Voxelab Burnt Titanium PLA -OVV3D Black/Green Shiny Silk (a transition filament from black to forest green to kale smoothie green, with green metallic glitter) -Fusion Filaments Carbon Rod Black HTPLA, ABS, ASA, and HTPET (no glitter, no iridescence, no gimmicks of any kind, and yet it looks truly phenomenal) -Atomic Filament Smoke Blue and Dark Cherry Red CF-PETG (the red was a Maker Box special color and it looks way nicer than the Bambu Lab CF filaments) -Hello3D/Amolen Firefly Glow-in-the-Dark PLA -Snolabs Atrovirens Transparent Blue PETG (sadly discontinued after the SnoDryer debacle) -Elixir Nightshade (get a move on with re-releasing this, please, Printed Solid, even if it means giving up on reformulating Elixir to no longer need powdered colorant) -3D Best-Q Rosewood PLA -FilamentPM Pearl Blue (which can be a shiny, pearlescent blue or a more matte purplish blue depending on your print temperature) -NHH Matcha Green matte PLA -Fusion Filaments Radiated Fog HTPET (translucent yet smoky, with heavy-duty glitter that can only really be explained by the name they gave it) -Coex3D Translucent Blood Red PLA -Proto-Pasta Cloverleaf Metallic HTPLA (a nice forest green but with a hint of gold glitter) -FilamentPM Froggy Gold PETG
Thanks for the nice video. But can you PLEASE get yourself a hot air gun to get rid of these tiny hairs/stringing on the prints? the macro shots especially look bad and the print quality can easily be improved with a one second swipe with hot air above the part :)
Serious question i hope you can help with. I work for a food production company and we want to 3D print pieces in an effort to save money. The issue we are running in to is finding a filament that is metal detectable, so if the piece splinters and gets caught in the food it would set off the metal detection and stop the production. Is there such a filament out there?
I didn't see a link to the marble coaster toy you printed for your kids. I would really like to print one of those. Could you include a link to the model?
Really weird that you are trying to introduce people to new filaments and don't mention at all that at least half of the filaments that you mention should be run with a hardened nozzle of some form. I guarantee someone is going to run one of the CFs on a stock brass nozzle and wonder why their printer started printing like shit
Thanks for the video. I have yet to try Filamentum filament. I'll have to give it a try. CookieCad makes some really impressive iridescent filament that prints really well.
@@thenextlayer Thanks Man LOL, I just blew $60 on a couple rolls of Protopasta, not in your video but they have some really nice looking sparkle filament. I bought their Wonder Blue Glitter HT PLA and a spool of Stardust Glitter HT PLA. The cost is mostly inconsequential, the fun is in the experimentation. 😁
I really wanna start this hobby but my concern is venting. I have a small home office so I’ll be looking for a small 3-D printer just to get started and I am concerned about the fumes and dust. I always thought that you could print with PLA and not need to vent your machine, but I keep reading online. That’s not the case and you should vent every 3-D printer, please let me know your thoughts😊
I have the same concerns. I went with a flashforge adventurer 5mpro. Built in hepa filter and carbon filter, plus I added a large hepa air purifier to my room. I cant smell a thing....but if I shut the filtering off and open the chamber while printing I can smell...so I know it is doing something.
@@thenextlayer I tried all the things when I started 3D printing. Adapters didn't work, taping up the edges didn't work. I think I may have had issues getting the Bambu spool ends back together once tension is let off the cardboard spool but I'll try again since I still have some leftover cardboard spool filament laying around. I tend to stick to plastic pools when ordering new filament. Though I do wish more filament makers would offer refill spools that go directly onto old spools.
For texture, I usually use fuzzy skin at a 0.4 to 0.6 on both settings in Prusa slicer. The only part that isn't textured at that point is the top. Rather than paying the CF "tax". I've tried PLA+ CF, and PETG-CF recently, and I haven't found them lacking, but at their price tag compared to a regular filament for an additive that really doesn't do much, I have to say it's not all that impressive.
You totally forgot Proto-Pasta's Empire Strikes Black!!! No mention of Proto-Pasta at all... Kinda makes me sad. You should really check them out, great stuff!
I've used Jessie's soul black glitter PLA and I feel like it has the perfect amount of glitter, but they also make it in a PETG version which could substitute polymaker galaxy black as they don't make it in a PETG version.
Bambu ABS GF is one of my new filaments, stronger than ABS and less warping/micro cracking and the glass gives it a mat finish. Especially at 30 for 1KG. Below is from their site Bambu ABS-GF is a glass fiber-reinforced ABS filament, enhanced in both mechanical and aesthetic properties. Compared with regular ABS, ABS-GF outperforms in strength, stiffness, temperature resistance and dimensional stability, while being less prone to deformation and warping. Glass fiber imparts a smooth matte finish with micro-spot gloss, blurring layer lines. ABS-GF is ideal for both mechanical parts and decorations due to the inherited water resistance, wear resistance, durability and vibrant colors.
Great video and happy to say i have most of those filaments you listed. Another absolutely filament that i would recommend a look at would be AMBROSIA ASA Galactic Filament of the Gods Galactic Midnight Meteorite or another of the ASA Galactic colors. Another interesting filament would be Stronghero3d Shadow Golden Fire,Core Shell co extrude (it is PLA with a PETG core) makes for some interesting effects. One last filament to check out would be ProtoPasta Blood of My Enemies.
My two favorite brands (available in the US) are Ziro and Amolen. They both make high quality filament, produce unique colors that no one else is offering, and their prices are decent. Amolen offers a lot of unique silks, tricolors, and dual colors as well as regular pla. They also sell sample sets for some of their unique lines like their wood line and marble/earth sets. And Ziro specializes in mattes. They have exceptional matte gradients, but they also sell tricolor mattes. Many of their colors are unique to them and no one else sells them.
Burnt Titanium is one of my favorite colors. Flash Forge and a couple of other companies make it and it is not expensive. PLA prints out the best I do have it in PETG but it doesn't print out as nice as PLA
this maby just me but what is up with the to put it nicely not so nice looking prints i mean i love the show en tell of the filaments but the prints look like ,,,,,,, and i know from looking at your other videos that you can print beautifull prints but this just makes me wonder and not wanne buy these, is it the filament that looks nice and prints like doegie or are these just cranked out for referance
CookieCAD is another producer of great matte color change filaments, color palette looks similar to SliceWorks. CookieCAD's Galaxy Black is really good too.
I don't use many glitter or silk filaments but when I have they have been small local companies here in Australia. 1 being DREMC and PhaserFPV. They also sell glow in the dark and UV changing filaments too which are awesome for ghosts and "scary" pieces.
I'm a big fan of iSanmate's wood filaments for projects where I'm trying to imitate wood and their matte rainbow and gradient filaments. Haven't tried that Ziro3d rainbow yet, but I intend to grab some when my current rainbow spool runs out (so probably pretty soon).
sorry to be a pain, but your link for the esun magenta-blue doesn't seem to work, having trouble figuring out which of their filaments is the right one.... want to use your affiliate link
Elegoo makes a nice filament that looks a lot like the Wizard's Voodoo. It is confusingly named "Galaxy Black'". Big fan of the Starlight series also. Comet was the perfect color for a dragon's egg I made as a gift recently.
So many filaments seem like they're made in the same factory but them branded later...like the Sliceworx matte gradients are the exact same as Isanmate...
Thanks for the review. I'm colorblind, so they really have to pop for me to like them. I like Flash Forge ASA (Blue in particular) as well as their sparkle series.
Current favorites are Ziro3D Neon Matte PLA and Bambulabs PETF-CF in black. The Ziro3D just looks fantastic and the PETG-CF comes out so nice people think its injected molded at first glance.
We actually bought some starlight nebula from polymaker as our first fancy looking filament and I personally love it despite having issues printing it at first (nothing to do with the filament just relatively new to the hobby)
Wow 😮 polymaker Galaxy black is expensive, but ordered it anyways today and arriving this pm and trying it out this pm … let’s see if the layer lines are visible
Have you test any flexible filament like TPU but they don't suffer hydrolysis over time in humid environment? From what I've known, TPU and PU will fall apart overtime by hydrolysis if left in humid area.
Most of them ship directly to me so I can try it and show it in my videos if I like it… but Amazon also ships a ton of filaments free here and I often buy there
Also you should have mentioned some exotic filled PLAs, like Francofil Coffee or Scallop, those make stuff look (and smell :)) not-printed and actually different, or compare wood-filled filaments to PLA-CF because PLA-CF is cheaper, stronger and doesn't clog nearly as much as wood, yet looks very similiar... if only it came in brown. But the green one is extremely similiar to colorFabb Vibers/stoneFill (it's same stuff with different colouring).
Can't believe this video did not include Protopasta - worth including for their HTPLA range and also for their matte fiber composite range. They also often have a bunch of recycled PLA pastel type colors available for limited runs. Not to mention their metal composite filaments! Their prices are a drawback for prototyping but for immaculate final parts they're among the best. Edit: I do make this comment from the US market, I have no idea what Protopasta's availability is anywhere else 😕
@@thenextlayer Or if they do I shudder to think of the cost 😕 Until Filamentum had their US shop I just could not justify buying their stuff for the same reason. But I didn't think of market limitations when originally commenting
