3D Printed Guitar (Body)
I have seen a lot of 3d printed guitar bodies online with different building approaches, mostly half wood, half plastic, but didn't find any clear tests on tone and sound quality so i started to make one and test it. I designed this one for being totally plastic (PLA) restricted and driven only by my printers build size (200x200x240mm) ended up with this industrial-futuristic looking style.
Printed 3 until now, using parts from a Squier Stratocaster (Neck, Bridge, Mics, etc...) the overall tone and sustain are very good, every part has different walls and infill settings ranging from 3 to 5 walls, and 15% to 35% infill, except for the center pieces which are the ones that have the strings load, that i printed on the last one that i made with 100%, using Cura's infill pattern called Cubic Subdivision (by far the most efficient). On the first one printed, center pieces were 25% infill, the second 50%, and the last 100%. Those first attempts after some days of being built started to bend, that is why i keep increasing the infill. By now the last one it is still straight.
I will soon upload quality sound examples.
RENDERS:
Building Animation. It has more threads than it looks like (frame 8), some overlap from this view.
FINISHED:
I call it 3dCaster.
SOME COLOR VARIATIONS:
