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Yeah, my colleague and I developed a prototype hunting rifle stock which we got printed for the client - shapeways refused to do it, then we found an Aussie company but it got seized in customs. Then when it turned up it was warped along its length, so we clamped it up, made some pie cuts perpendicular to the warp, then bored a hole through along the warp, then epoxied a stiff steel rod in the hole to straighten it out.
It could only ever be a hunting product, before anyone mentions the arms trade. And the only things that are hunted here are a) invasive & destructive and b) eaten, before anyone mentions unnecessary cruelty to animals.
Also have been printing lots of mandibles for dental surgeons, the data being taken from 3D scans of defective jaws (defective as in broken). We are doing this in-house for fast turnaround.