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

Enthusiasts from The Foundry, a public workshop in Bellingham, Washington, shared the work of one of the creative inventors club members, Jeff Kerr, with an acoustic guitar, fully printed on a 3D printer. An unusual type of translucent plastic guitar not only looks like a real one, but also sounds good (according to eyewitness statements). The printer made all the details of the guitar, except metal - strings, pegs, frets and a metal rod, giving stiffness to the fingerboard.



Among other interesting solutions are internal ribs of the body, made in the form of fractally branching segments, and circular shapes around the resonator hole, strengthening its edges and at the same time decorating the guitar as decorative elements. To create a guitar, the inventor needed to modify his existing printer in order to place large parts of the body and neck on the printing table. PLA plastic was used for printing. Some especially large parts of the case were printed separately and then glued with cyanoacrylate glue. In total, the printout took about 60 hours.
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The guitar is available to see / touch for everyone in the “The Foundry” workshop, and those who cannot go to Bellingham can make it at home - the inventor provided all the specifications and drawings for free. It's great that 3D printers are gradually entering our lives, and who knows what else unexpected things we will see printed in the near future.