Electric guitar

Desighned to be as 3D printed as posible without losing functionality.

Smaller parts variant to be able to print on 180x180x180 is added.

All non printed components exept specialised guitar parts such as: strings, pickups, frets and electronics are easy to find in most hardware stores.

Thicker neck has been added

Guitar features:

Functional truss rod made out of M5 threaded rod

Functional 3D printed bridge in kinda tune o'matic style

Functional 3D printed tuners

Reinforced with 2mm steel wire throughout guitar body and neck

Sound samples made by wiring pickup directly to my motherboard line-in  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xj5LV0sY5hZqaFQLGkah3YUPc8ODvpXv/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-8x-3Y0AGH0Z9kmLx7R3iEZ7CalohFbk/view?usp=sharing

Parts required:

2mm steel wire (to reinforce neck and body)

40mm M5 screws 4pcs (for screwing neck to body)

M5 nuts 5pcs (4 glued in neck, 1 used for truss rod at the botom of the neck)

M5 cap nut (with screwdriver slit cut into it, for truss rod at the top of the neck)

500mm M5 threaded rod (is truss rod)

17mm or longer M3 screws  6pcs (for stringholders)

17mm or longer M3 flat head screws  6pcs (for stringholders)

45mm M3 screws 12 pcs (for string retainer and tuners)

20mm M3 screws 26pcs (for bridge adjustment and screwing in various parts)

Bunch of M3 nuts

25mm M4 flathead screws and nuts (for bridge height adjustment)

Specialised guitar parts such as: pickups (if you want to change type of pickups in this model use guitar body blanks to model in pickups of your choice), strings, frets and electronics

Print settings:

0.4 mm nozzle exept inlays

inlays printed with 0.2 mm nozzle

All files and their variations are in: “ALL Guitar parts.zip” file

To ensure guitar rigidity neck and body should be reinforced with steel wire.
Roughen up pieces of 2mm wire and glue them in wire holes with strongest adhesive you have (i used “Kafuter”)

Neck:

For more rigid neck use models from "THICK" folder

Before printing neck make sure it will print correctly, with attached test piece

Neck parts printed verticaly with wall thickness 3.2 mm and with layer hight of 0.15mm (Might as well just go full infill)

!!! NO SUPPORT INSIDE WIRE HOLES !!!

Custom supports on inlay holes. I didnt use supports in fret cuts but to do that you have to set wall printing order to first print inside, that helps with overhangs for a price of ghosty outside layer

To avoid glue getting into fret cut used “Fret cut glue cover.stl” to cover fret cut and remove it quickly when neck parts are put together

Body:

Body parts printed verticaly with wall thickness 2.8 mm and with layer hight of 0.2mm, custom supports on everything you want !!! EXEPT 2mm WIRE HOLES !!!

File down threads of string retainer screws on parts where string are touching the screws so it not damage the strings

Put a wire in string retainer slot on the back side of guitar body and after that tighten the nuts on top of it (for strings grounding)

Bridge:

Layer hight of 0.15mm, 100% infil. 

Every part of the bridge should fit tightly. bridge itself too should fit tightly in guitar body