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When you get the ones you want, you can buy thousands for next to nothing (especially at industrial supply stores) and pass them out to our friends.

Jeff Hunter, 48, of Troy, Ohio, grew up in a family business, waiting on customers and sharpening saws at his father's industrial supply store.

Mr. Oursler, like many artists these days, trolls theatrical and industrial supply stores and skims video magazines for new electronics.

Like a nascent Chelsea, in New York, white-box art galleries are sandwiched between industrial supply stores and auto-repair shops, including one that only repairs classic Mustangs.

Last year, only one 3-D printing company showed up at the CES, which aims to showcase gadgets you might buy at Best Buy or Amazon, not at industrial supply stores.