World’s First 3D Printed Guitars

[Dave W]

AweSome's 3D-printed guitar offers 76 analog pickup tones

The company already offers the 76-tone modules for existing guitars and basses so that's nothing new. What interests me is the possibility of printing 3D guitars at home.

[Granny Gremlin]

My Sonex is "resonwood" (aka masonite/MDF) so why not.  Better than 3D printed guns... oh wait.

It'll be a while before 3D printer costs come down enough for this to be a home project though, no?

Would it be cheaper or better than just CNC machineing a body out of actual wood though?

[Dave W]

It's certainly cheaper in wood now. It may not stay that way if 3D printers drop in price as much as some are predicting.

[Pilgrim]

AweSome's 3D-printed guitar offers 76 analog pickup tones

The company already offers the 76-tone modules for existing guitars and basses so that's nothing new. What interests me is the possibility of printing 3D guitars at home.

May be a new biz opportunity there, Dave.  Come up with 3D models for bass bodies, make them fit a commercially available neck and hardware, then let people print out the body and sell them a neck/hardware kit.

[dadagoboi]

Just the thing for 'direct to tree' laser recording.

[Pilgrim]

Just the thing for 'direct to tree' laser recording.

Then people can argue about "which tree is the best for metal?"

[Barklessdog]

It's certainly cheaper in wood now. It may not stay that way if 3D printers drop in price as much as some are predicting.

I do 3d printing at work and so far the cost is pretty high, not only for the material, but a high quality printer. Also it take forever to print something large. I also have learned Cnc which is also time consuming, but can only really cut from one direction. Still you can do a lot of cool stuff that would take forever if you had to do it by hand.

The programming can take a lot of time and the software is costly if you want to do your own designs.