BIES (The Fiend) 3D printable headless guitar

While being an engineer and having access to a 3D printer I wanted to create a guitar esthetically suitable for folk-rock music. Moreover, I wanted to experiment with pickup and electronics setting by adding a custom lipstick pickup humbucker.

I have a few short sound samples on my Instagram page

PRINT SETTINGS

• Centre Piece: filament: PLA-CF or PLA, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 6, infill: 12% honeycomb, top shell thickness: 1.2 mm, snug supports
• Top Body: filament: PLA-CF or PLA, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 2, infill: 15% grid, snug supports, reinforced walls (3-4) at the strap screw position
• Bottom Body: filament: PLA-CF or PLA, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 2, infill: 15% grid, snug supports
• Antler: filament: PLA-CF or PLA, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 3, infill: 12% cubic, snug supports
• Tremolo Bridge Spacer: filament: PET-G or PETG-CF, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 6, infill: 25% grid, no supports
• Neck Spacer: filament: PLA-CF or PLA, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 8, infill: 100%
• Steel Plate Cover: filament: PLA-CF or PLA, layer height: 0.2 mm, wall count: 6, infill: 20% grid, no supports3
• Rest of the models: Standard settings should be enough with any filament of choice

ADDITIONAL PARTS FOR THE ASSEMBLY

• Stainless Steel plate (270x50x8 mm)
• 24 fret headless neck (I got this maple neck from AliExpress which is alright, although mechanically the last 8 frets are slightly out of tune)
• Tremolo bridge (I did not like the top bridge that holds the strings yet I couldn't find any which would fit the maple necks shape. I suggest looking for another top bridge)
• Top bridge from the photo (This bridge is not entirely suitable for the used neck since the metal pegs made me file the ending of the neck in order for it to fit. SO I suggest looking for something else)
• 4x Lipstick Pickups (The ones I got aren't available anymore. Just look for pickups with the distance of the mounting holes of 90 mm)
• 12x M2 & 12x M3 inserts
• 2x 250k ALPHA linear potentiometers
• 100k ALPHA linear potentiometer
• 3-way telecaster switch (41.5 mm hole distance)
• 2x 2-way switches (19mm hole distance)
• 4.7 nF capacitor
• Jack socket
• A 12mm diameter wooden rod of atleast 16 cm length (3 cm for front side, 13 cm for back side) used for attaching the strap mount screws.
• Strong glue (I used epoxy resin glue)

ADDITIONAL MODIFICATION

Since the primary sound of the guitar sounded a bit weak for me, I integrated and active circuit to the output (Basically made a very small battery powered effect which I attached next to the output. The circuit is basically an identical schematic to the EQD Arrows effect except the transistor was swapped with a BC337.