Check out the rack of these ducks! I got tired of painting finish onto the pins one by one long ago, so I went on an iterative design frenzy trying to make my own solution for putting sealant on multiple pins at once!(While keeping them high quality) First, I designed a rack that was a similar size to this. I stood it up and poured finish onto the pins and it drained back into it’s container. That used WAY too much finish, it was very wasteful.

Since that didn’t work, I redid the grid as a 3 X 3 circle that I used to dip the pins into the gallon bucket of finish itself! Dipping the pins worked great, and doing 9 at once instead of one at a time was nice, but I knew I could do better… So I designed my third(and hopefully final?) iteration which was this 8 X 7 rack, as well as a foot long by foot wide 3d printed box to dip the entire rack into! It uses a little more finish as each time I pour it into the box, it deposits a thin layer as I pour it back into the original container, but oh my gosh dipping up to 50-ish pins at once saves me SO much time!!! I feel like I’m in a video game tycoon, except I design and produce my own upgrades!! Life is awesome!

Anyways, enjoy the ducks! You can never have too many!! Also a mineral design or two in there :)