An open Bible on a wooden table with a small cross bookmark resting on the page

Nothing Is Wasted: Why Every Order Ships With a Free Cross

When you 3D print something, there is always material left over. Purge from color changes, a bit of waste at the start of a run. Every maker deals with it, and most of it goes in the trash.

That started bothering us.

The idea

The leftover material is perfectly good. It is the same PLA your figure is made from. It just was not part of the shape we were printing that day.

So we started collecting it and reshaping it into small cross bookmarks. One goes into every order, free, without being asked for.

We call it the Redeemed Cross.

Why that name

Because it is a small picture of something much bigger. The scraps are not thrown out. They are gathered up and made into something worth keeping.

That is not a bad description of what God does with people either. Nothing is wasted in the Kingdom, no matter how little or small, and neither are you.

What to do with it

Most people use theirs as a bookmark, which is what we hoped for. It sits nicely in a Bible, and it turns a small object into a small reminder every time you open the page.

Some end up clipped in a car, or on a desk, or handed to someone who needed it more. All good uses.

A note on the future

We make these because we print in-house, one figure at a time. If that ever changes, we will find another way to keep the practice, because we like what it says about how we work.

Every order includes one. You do not need to add it to your cart or ask for it. Browse the heroes and yours will arrive alongside.

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