Antler Drop Earrings — Red Deer Rack

A red deer's rack, shrunk until it hangs from an ear. 23.9 x 26.5 x 3.3 mm, 0.44 g per earring — a whole pair is under a gram of filament.

What you get

• antler_earring_right.stl and antler_earring_left.stl — one each.

• antler_earrings.stl — both on one plate, for a single print.

They are mirror images, not two copies. The plate has a flat back and a domed front, so printing one twice and flipping it wears one earring back-to-front. Print the left AND the right.

The bail is sized for real hardware. A jump ring is threaded through the Ø2.5 mm hole and closes around the bar between hole and outside, so what it has to swallow is that bar's diagonal, not its thickness. The ring boss is thinned to 1.6 mm for exactly that reason — sqrt(1.6² + 1.15²) = 1.97 mm, against a 4 mm ring's 2.40 mm inner Ø, so the hardware drops straight on. The rack tops out just under a millimetre below the bore, so the ring sits square instead of cocked against a tine.

It also hangs the way it renders: the blank is spun so its centre of mass sits plumb under the hole, 0.04° off vertical, with the hole axis normal to the plate so the antler faces forward rather than edge-on.

Print

• Flat on the bed as exported, face up. No supports, no brim — the back is one true plane, 163 mm² of it on the bed.

• 0.2 mm layers, 0.4 mm nozzle, 3 walls. PLA or PETG.

• Thinnest tine is Ø2.2 mm, median Ø3.5 — nothing here is a hair.

• Bone, ivory, cream or a natural wood-fill filament read best; the photo is bone white PLA.

Hardware — one 4 mm OD / 0.8 mm wire jump ring per earring, then a fish-hook or lever-back ear wire. Hang from the metal ring, never a wire straight through the plastic.