I used to make my own pots out of clay, but that was a long time ago, almost in another life. While I love the concept of 3D printing, it works best for small runs. It would take you forever and a whole lot of fairly expensive plastic to make 250 pots, for example, but it might be just the thing for 15 pots. The next step up is injection molding, a plastic technology for making lots of identical objects more cheaply. If PBS members in the aggregate would want to buy hundreds of some standard size of long tom pots, perhaps with a decoration or PBS logo, probably injection molding would be the inexpensive way to produce them. What I always liked about ceramic pots, other than the sense of nearly total control over their production, was that they were heavy enough that they rarely fell over. It was fun to make them with little lugs so that they could be hung up by a cord, also. They could even have drainage holes and an attached saucer. They could be porous or not. If money is no object (doubtful proposition,) they could solve most problems that pots pose. Plastic is much cheaper and doesn't break if you drop it. It can be made with holes for a cord, even, and in many offensive or non-offensive colors. Jane Sargent _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…