3D printing death of commercial and custom knife making industry?

Ebooks are great and I get one whenever available,
except for technical things where one has to go back and forth. Couldn't imagine some heavily illustrated 1000 page Biochemistry book with lots of disconnected topics on a kindle without having notes sticking out here and there kind of indicating where what is which currently interests me. Electronic bookmarks, page numbers and stuff just don't navigate as fast and efficient as a real book but that might be just a habit? Also if you are looking for keywords and phrases across a whole work an ebook might actually be faster.
Maybe a real book is just more intuitive. You constantly feel where you are even if you jump around in it. On a kindle it shows you some huge digit position number or some page but you still don't know if that page is 400 out of 1000 or out of 401 without some effort.

Books you read from front to back are fine with me even on a cellphone.
So depending on what our student is studying he might be right textbooks are dead in some areas.
 
Pistols are dead in some areas, not to mention "surgery beverages."

I try to remember that where I am is not the entire universe. That can be comforting or scary. :eek:
 
The guys talking about 3d printing as a toy are comically ignorant of their uses in auto design for rapid prototyping, or the medical field for all manor of fairly amazing things. In any event theres little chance it'll have any impact on knife making, even MIM was only ever used in a handful of knives and that seemed to be a technology destined for knives.
 
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