After the Silk Gold, in April 2021 I tested the rest of AzureFilm's silk line: Ocean Blue, Flame Orange, Silver and Dark Copper. For weeks, relatives kept walking out of our house with my vases.
No benchmarks this time
As always, each spool came in AzureFilm's white box, vacuum sealed with silica gel, neatly wound, made in Sežana, Slovenia. I skipped benchmarks completely: printing Benchys with silk filament is useless. You buy silk to make something beautiful and ornamental that people will see. So: vases, vase mode, and 0.8 mm extrusion width.
Colour by colour
Ocean Blue. My first print was a low-poly miniature of myself, "the 3D Print Geek", created by my good friend Vic De Carlo, an ongoing project. Then a vase. It's so smooth it doesn't even look like PLA. These silks reflect light so well they look like painted, glossy stone.
Flame Orange is my favourite, and the spool is almost gone. It looks a bit like gold but with all the shades of orange. In the morning it's very orange, and at golden hour it turns gold. A friend begged me for a huge vase, around 35 cm on my Sidewinder X1, and it came out beautifully. Another vase took roughly six hours.
Silver is less bright than other silver PLAs I've tried. It's darker and doesn't really shine, but it keeps a silvery glow when light hits it, like on the bowl by the window.
Dark Copper surprised me. At first I didn't like its antique, slightly purple glow. Then my wife asked me to print a couple to put on our old furniture, and they fit our antique pieces like nothing else. It became a favourite of my wife, my mother-in-law and the whole family.
Settings
The suggested temperatures are 220–240 °C. For the one spool rated at 220 °C, I used 225 °C: I like to bump the temperature a little in vase mode for better layer adhesion. The results speak for themselves. When I gathered the vases from the lounge and kitchen for filming, the house looked empty.