Megalodon Tooth Stand

The "Give Your Fossil a Stage" Megalodon Tooth Display Stand

My son-in-law Evan loves megalodon teeth, but a real one runs into the hundreds of dollars. So he printed one instead, and it ended up lying flat on a shelf looking like a printed part rather than a fossil. I told him I could fix that. This is the stand I designed for it, and it now sits on the red shelf in his kitchen.

WHAT MAKES IT WORK - Cradled Arms, Point Down: A pair of arms hold the tooth point-down, echoing the way it sat in the jaw. It reads as a specimen on display instead of an object on a shelf. - Counterweighted, Not Clamped: A vertical support on the opposite side balances the arms, so the tooth leans forward for viewing without the stand tipping. Nothing grips or glues to the tooth; it lifts straight out whenever you want to handle it. - Built Around the Scan Everyone Prints: Sized to the widely printed Lapworth Museum megalodon scan below, rather than designed as a generic cradle and hoped for the best. - One Piece, No Hardware: 134 x 108 x 40 mm, prints flat in 2 h 36 m for about 48 g. - Debossed MakerX Mark: On the underside.

THE TOOTH IS NOT INCLUDED

This download is the stand only. The tooth it was designed around is "Megalodon fossil shark tooth", specimen BIRUG 14906, scanned and published by The Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham through MyMiniFactory's Scan the World project, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Download the tooth from the original listing: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-megalodon-fossil-shark-tooth-81202

Please credit the museum. Copies of this scan have been re-uploaded to other sites by people who are not the original creators.

PRINT SETTINGS

Tree supports required | 0.12mm layer height | PLA

The cradling arms overhang, so tree supports on auto at a 30 deg threshold are part of the shipped profile - about 1.5 g of support that twists off by hand. Sliced and printed on a Creality Hi with a 0.4 mm nozzle.

Give it a stage.