About Me

My first experience with 3D printing was at the High School Computing Institute at the University of Utah back in the early 2000’s. Back then, 3D printers weren’t really within reach of anyone besides universities and big companies, so nothing really came of it until 2018. While working my day job, I discovered that a coworker had a 3D printer. I was impressed with what he was modeling and printing, so I decided to pick up a now-affordable printer (an OG Ender 3) and give it another go. Since then, I’ve purchased several new printers to add more printing capabilities- a Ratrig V-Core 3.1 400 to print large projects and a Snapmaker U1 for multi-color and multi-material prints.

As a millennial, I am cursed with a compulsion to monetize my hobbies, so this company was born. We engineering-types have a strong affinity for puns, portmanteaus, and acronyms. The chance to blend “Phil A” with “laminar” proved too big a temptation to resist and it is now my company name, Philaminar 3D Printing, LLC. The word “laminar” refers to slices and slicing. That’s a big part of 3D printing- you take a 3D model and break it down into slices, layer by layer, in order to print it.

My other hobbies include reading, baking bread, yoga, procrastinating teaching myself to play the Theremin, and spending time with my family.