2026-05-05
Channel: KALBO (4130 subscribers)
Today's pickings lean heavily toward Shorts and hashtag-spam clips, but KALBO's dragon clock build stands out as an actual long-form project with technical substance. The video walks through designing and printing a working clock with a sculpted dragon motif, specifically tuned for multi-color FDM systems like the Creality K1 Max paired with the CFS (Creality Filament System).
What makes this worth watching is the multi-material angle. Multi-color printing on AMS-style systems involves real engineering tradeoffs — color change purges that waste filament, careful part orientation to minimize transitions, model splitting strategies, and slicer configuration that most single-color tutorials skip entirely. For viewers who recently picked up a CFS, AMS, or Mosaic Palette and are still figuring out how to actually use it efficiently, seeing a complete project executed end-to-end is more useful than abstract documentation.
The clock mechanism itself is also a useful lesson in how to integrate off-the-shelf quartz movements into custom 3D-printed enclosures — tolerancing the shaft hole, sizing for the hands, and hiding the battery compartment cleanly. KALBO is offering the model files for free, so you can follow along and print it yourself rather than just watching passively.
Note: the title leans clickbait-y with the "EPIC" framing, but the underlying content is a legitimate build video, not a hashtag reel.
