It took 60 hours and 1.5 kg of plastic to print an acoustic guitar on a 3D printer

Enthusiasts from The Foundry Public Workshop in Bellingham, Wash. Shared the work of one of the members of the club of creative inventors, Jeff Kerr, an acoustic guitar fully printed on a 3D printer. The unusual appearance of a translucent plastic guitar not only looks like a real one, but also sounds good (according to eyewitnesses). The printer made all the details of the guitar, except for metal ones - strings, pegs, frets and a metal rod, which makes the neck stiff.



Among other interesting solutions are the internal stiffening ribs of the body, made in the form of fractally branching segments, and circular shapes around the resonator hole, reinforcing its edges and concurrently decorating the guitar as decorative elements. To create a guitar, the inventor needed to modify his printer to place large parts of the case and neck on a printed table. For printing, PLA plastic was used. Some particularly large parts of the case were printed separately and then glued with cyanoacrylate adhesive. In total, it took about 60 hours to print.





The guitar is available to watch / touch for everyone in the workshop “The Foundry”, and those who can’t go to Bellingham can make it at home - the inventor provided all the specifications anddrawings are absolutely free. It's great that 3D printers are gradually entering our lives, and who knows what other unexpected things we will see printed soon.