In the sea of YouTube stars, there are countless performers, gamers and beauty gurus.

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But Joel Telling built a worldwide following out of his Shoreline home by teaching people how to print: “The name of my show is 3D Printing Nerd and the goal of the show is to inspire and educate those who are interested in additive manufacturing and 3D printing.”

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Telling creates massive plastic pieces (like a life-sized Thanos sword ) and small ones (like a Slinky-type toy.)

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Joel Telling holds his life-sized Thanos sword, made of several 3D printed pieces. “I can find things from my childhood or from current days that I think are awesome, and I can print them out, and they can exist in real life,” he said. “That’s amazing!”

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More than 340,000 subscribers love watching his ideas come to life, layer by layer, on his channel. But it wasn’t […]

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