no, I think the RC modeling people are quite numerous, and quite into custom motors, I think they are the ones who made the electric skateboards and scooters possible, BLDC control was only for serious business before them. Then, they started rewinding their motors. And after that they started putting them backwards (outrunners), by recycling brushed DC rotor laminations for the stator.
But I really feel like the RC community is screaming for custom lamination. And with them will come the homemade electric car people, skateboards, bikes and wind turbine, all those tinkerers.
Next step I guess will be the magnets, they will want custom magnets whose magnetization surface is not planar. And also custom arc circle magnets (for halbach array pancake motors).
Interesting, I'm not familiar with the RC market at all. I've looked into e-bike, electric car, and wind power projects before, and I definitely found the choice of motors was often one of the most limiting factors. I've followed projects where people have built there own motors, but I've never seen anyone build a custom motor using custom lamination. I've seen more motors made out of wood than I can count though.
Honestly, I think this is one of those things where the market doesn't exist until it exists. Someone could probably create a market for it by creating some cool projects in certain fields using custom cut metal lamination. If you offered to make custom lamination at cost for people who were building their own projects, they'd end up posting about it, and soon enough people would realize that you could make things with custom lamination.
That being said, I definitely don't have the technical expertise to judge whether inexpensive custom lamination is even possible, or if it's one of those things where you build a super cool company that makes just enough money to keep you in poverty.
But I really feel like the RC community is screaming for custom lamination. And with them will come the homemade electric car people, skateboards, bikes and wind turbine, all those tinkerers.
Next step I guess will be the magnets, they will want custom magnets whose magnetization surface is not planar. And also custom arc circle magnets (for halbach array pancake motors).