Skull Windchime

NOTE: this model has been updated and is available here: https://social.thangs.com/m/391327

These print-in-place skull chains can be used as windchimes, beaded curtains, keychains or whatever other haunted decoration ideas you might have!

See here for video: https://youtu.be/o14t0UBf09c

Four lengths of skull chains are provided to accommodate different build plate sizes and allow for a variety of skull-chain lengths in your final project. Lengths include: 6 skull (112mm), 8 skull (144mm), 10 skull (176mm) and 12 skull (208mm).

Windchime holders are provided in two sizes, 10-prong and 12-prong. Thread three short, knotted lengths of string through the three outer holes in the windchime holder, then knot the three strings together and attach to a long single string. There is a central hole in the holder as well if you wish to hang something down through the center of the windchime.

These skull chains are connected using a unique print-in-place ball-and-socket joint allowing the finished print to fully turn, twist, and rotate.

The inner spheres print on top of tiny supports within the cavity of the neighbouring skull. Once printed, a light twist of each skull frees the ball within the cavity and the skull chain can turn and bend. Be sure to let your print fully cool first! If the plastic is still soft, the connector may break when you try to move it.

Plan your supports carefully. A suggested technique using Cura is to raise the object of the build plate by 3mm, and then add tree supports underneath. Switch “Support distance priority” to “xy overrides z” and tighten up the “xy support distance” to 0.1mm.

ADDITION (October 11, 2021): Two sizes of "Strikers" and "Skull Sails" to hang down the middle of the windchime.

Here are more of my anatomical designs you might enjoy:

Novelty:

Wearable Spine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4982223
Skull Jewelry Set: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4980129
Happy Halloween Spine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4979522
Eyeball Windchime: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4978632
Fingerbone Windchime: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4962956
Skull Windchime: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4962814
Creepy Custom Embossed Spine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4916377
Mini Articulating Spine Keychain: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4891846
Big Bowl O’ Back Bones: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4881377
Vertebral Stacking Blocks: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4868387
Anatomically Correct Voronoi Heart: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4636146
Vertebrae with Secret Compartment: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4633188
Brain Puzzle: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4158232
Anatomical Heart Puzzle: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4146688

Educational:

6-Piece Magnetic Female Pelvis Model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4946668
Fryette’s Laws Teaching Tool: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4887712
Hip and Pelvis Model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4875641
Flexible Three-Quarter Spine Model with Display Stand: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4863003 Full Size Anatomically Correct Human Foot Model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4849504
Full Size Anatomically Correct Human Hand Model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4841107
Full Size Anatomically-Correct 18-Piece Magnetic Human Skull Model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4830026
Full-sized Anatomically Correct Articulating Spine: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4801717
Articulating Lumbar Vertebrae: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4637241