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I am a hobbyist, and my job will probably never require me to design and print anything for work.

I do really enjoy the process of conceptualizing, designing, and printing, and have done so for myself and some close acquaintances.

I've spent many hours/days learning the tools of the trade and was wondering if there was an opportunity to make some money as a side gig. Has anyone been successful doing this, and how did you go about it?

Here are a couple of my early designs, I plan to upload more once I clean things up a bit.

https://www.thingiverse.com/landon8848/designs

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is illegal to counterfeit money, and my printer is resin, not paper or metal. So... no.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

There's dozens of us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love everything about this thread

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Canada uses plastic money. Is it illegal to counterfeit another country's money? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Happened before. I can't find the story though. I think it was someone who showed up in Europe claiming to be a government official for a South American country. They commissioned printers to make a lot of currency notes. They vanished and it was discovered they weren't part of this countries' government.

Most US counterfeit US Bank Notes are printed in Colombia these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's extradition laws. 🙂🙂