I MADE A 3D PRINTED CUSTOM GUITAR - The Polycaster
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In this video, I show how I designed and 3D printed guitar, the Polycaster.
Project on Thingiverse:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:420...
The Filament I Used:
www.amazon.com/SUNLU-Filament...
The specs for the neck, pickups, and bridge were based off of the design of a 60s Stratocaster, so most aftermarket necks with a 25.5" scale and bridges will fit. I used a Gibson Explorer style neck that I salvaged from an old guitar project of mine. - เพลง
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The tiny guitar reveal is peak comedy
Dude, I LOVE the "low-poly" look of it! Reminds me of the guitar models in early guitar hero games!
Time to start a 3D printed custom shop! 😉
That shows how much "tonewood" matters ;-)
are we still arguing about this? I mean I'm with you on that but jesus it's 2020, haven't people gotten over this shit?
All that matters are in the pickups quality
yes cause this guitar sound like shit
About tonewoods, the density is more important than What wood is.
@@potatoheadhaoy2024 and I'm still seeing articles about tonewood... It explains world politics a lot.
Great looking guitar, I remember when I built my first one 51 years ago. It was fantastic to play one made yourself. Nothing quite like it
absolutely awesome!! sounds absolutely amazing.
Thank you for giving back to the community !
The design is so beautiful
Dude, that is so cool. Also inspiring I'm ordering a printer next week. Can't wait to try stuff like this.
This is probably the prettiest guitar i've ever seen, huge congrats on the design.
100% core piece? IDK, maybe there's better sustain that way too.
Thank you so much! The sustain on it is pretty decent, but it would be a lot better with better pickups. The pickups I'm using are pretty cheap and leftover from an old project of mine. When I get the chance I plan on putting in something a lot better, probably some Texas Specials.
Yeah, 100% infill may be a waste. I don't have a 3D printer, but I'd recommend to make simulations in a program to see see where is the point of max stress and apply more infill in those parts. Basically smart infill.
Another way to achieve strength in 3d printing is through the perimeter count / wall thickness, which people say contributes more to the strength than just the infill
@@deleteduser201 There's actually a part that i did at 100% infill not too long ago, where no matter how many perimeters, it just didn't work. The load is so high that material would eventually distort and creep, and the one way to prevent it was to give it plain nowhere to go by printing full solid.
They're brake shoes for the backrest of my office chair. I have also reinforced these shoes, by epoxying an M8 bolt into one and a 10/8mm alu tube into another, and modifying the geometry a little to give them more grabby meat around the shafts but less length. Another change was switching from PETG to HIPS. The chair came with cast resin ones i think and they were crumbling.
Tell me you’re not serious! It’s the ugliest guitar I’ve ever seen!
Absolutely incredible work and awesome video! I found it while looking for project inspiration after recently fixing up an old acoustic with some 3D printed parts. Subscribed right away! Excited to see what you make next!
Awesome stuff! I’m surprised that your channel isn’t bigger! I really dig your printed guitar!
Awesome project and video. Thanks!
nice work thanks for the files i will check em out
hopefully some people will send some more content, i want to see more of these polycasters : )
That was quite interesting. Thanks for showing the world. 🤘🏼
I think this guitar is the best!!
nicely done! - I learned so much - thank you
Amazing job! And really cool design!
Thanks! It's about time I got around to making a new one since I made this one over a year ago. I'm currently printing a new design and hope to release a video about it in the next few weeks.
Very great !!!!
Looks sick, sounds sick. That's a win!
Fantastic. !!!!
this is amazing. you are amazing
Awesome video. I don't play guitar but I can see the potential for future generations to be able to do their own designs.
That is absolutely a killer looking guitar.
Love the Gold and Blue combo! 👍
Beautiful playing, SUPER cool guitar!
Thanks!
Looks futuristic
so cool!
That's a cool guitar man, nice one.
That came out looking great! I would have been nervous about that solid brick in the middle. I'd get through half a roll of filament and have something mess up and lose the print! I think I would have tried 35% and if it warped, I would change it out. To that end, I would have kept the final thing a bit more modular so I could sub things out later if necessary... but you don't have to worry about that! Really nice work!
Wow this blue silk PLA is gorgeous!
Wow that’s too cool
Dig. First time I've ever seen a 3-D printer in action. I want one. Faked me out on the little guitar. Thanks for publishing.
nice man,i never thought that you can print a guitar and play with it nicely
It's amazing mate!!! I'm also working on making my own. Nice to see the video.
This is AWSOME! Im building a gibson style guitar now. Wish my print bed was big enough to do this!
Clean build, clean playing
This is amazing! Love your work man. You have inspired me with a major idea I want to do. Hope to keep in touch!
Found this by accident (or fate). Incredible work. One of the coolest looking guitars I’ve seen in a long time. Would totally buy one like that.
I also started to print the guitar thanks for the project
Awesome! Let me know how it turns out
Very cool!
what a sound.
NICE!!!!!
Badass! Looks like something from the flintstones
This was awesome, I'm looking to design my own as well
Sweet!!!!! I'm hoping to print a guitar, but make it an extremely minimal body. Basically, try to fit it all in that initial rectangle you made. Great Video!
keep making videos this was awesome
Thanks! I'm currently printing a new design I've been working on. Once it's done, I plan on making a video about it. I'm hoping to get that video released in the next couple of weeks.
Very cool, man.
Wow those pieces came out amazing. I wish I could get my printer to print that good.
THIS VIDEO DESERVES WAY MORE VIEWS! BOYS YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO!
great looking axe!
that guitar reminds me of the Money for Nothing Video back in the 80's. Very cool though.
Woah! I'm surprised your channel isn't bigger considering the quality of the content. I'm planning on making my own printed bass design and wanted to see what'd already been done.
Awesome! Thanks! Good luck with the bass
I was about to comment the same thing. I stumbled across your videos while researching the sterling music man. Great content with excellent quality. Keep it up man. I bet if you made some TH-cam #shorts videos you’d blow up. Reposting the 3D printed majesty as a #short might help.
how did it turn out? I play bass and I am interested. All I see is guitars online, no basses
Literally blown away by everything. The design and colours are gorgeous. Brilliant idea basing the whole guitar around one solid piece.
The whole thing just looks phenomenal. I don't know how you design all of this in cad,I tried my hand at 3d printing and just couldn't get to grips with it at all,so I'm blown away by the level of detail in the design process.
Also I've seen other similar builds and I've thought "meh they sound ok". This on the other hand sounds so resonant! I'm assuming this is because you based it around one solid piece and attached parts around it.
Sorry for the huge message,1+ subscriber here :)
Thanks!
honestly, 25% cubic infill with a thick wall would’ve worked fine for the middle part of the guitar. josef prusa himself made a guitar design and did 25% cubic infill for that section and said it stood up to the tension for over a year without any warping.
What happened after a year?
@@mikefarquhar5063 nothing
Hello, Andy! That was really cool! I’m inspired by your project, and I’m going to make something similar. Perhaps, that’s the coolest project among other on the thingiverse!
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks 😊
Awesome project, i am planning on making one myself, I am going to change it to a HH configuration (which is all a learning process for me as I don't have any experience with 3d modelling) hoping start soon once I find the right donor guitar to get the neck from.
That is rad! I need a 3d printer
Awesome
Congrats, you won it all! best design so far! You earn my subscription!! and someday in the future I tip you somehow!
Thank you!
KEEP POSTING!
I will. I'm currently printing a new guitar I designed. It's taking a while to print, but when it's done I plan on making a video on it here in the next few weeks. My 3D printer had to go through some maintenance that I just never really got around to doing until recently. But now that it's good to go again, I plan on 3D printing more guitars. It's bizarre to me to realize I made this video almost a year ago.
absolutely insane build
i have a 3d printer and i have to stop myself from going beyond my technical capabilities and making a guitar from scratch
I am gonna print this guitar!
I'm new to all of this apart from guitars, I know my stuff in that area but not 3D printing so im asking around for thoughts and insights, like materials and designs than can be used and altered on CAD etc to achieve lighter than a standard or custom strat for example, weight And the resonant qualities of the body of the guitar plus neck and parts on a whole and the internal structure plus the balance while wearing it with a strap so it doesn't neck dive, big factors, I can see the potential in 3D printing, like a honeycomb structure with a smooth finish encapsulating the honeycomb structure inside, can be designed in a way to make a standard looking traditional fender guitar lighter and perfectly balanced, and still have the strength to hold the tension exceeding the string tension (of the thickest gauge to exceed tolerances) would be the standard I'd be gunning for, my question to you is what would your choice if material be, the rolls of plastic, is it just plastic or are there more materials useable on something like a guitar body?
I'd also if there's something like copper or aluminium- use that to make a shielded pickguard, no point shielding anything else as its not about making a Faraday cage to stop EM noise, the pickguard acts like a dish that can be grounded to draw the excess em to earth rather than the pickup 'picking it up'
I digress,
I'm just curious and interested in this, now that I can see a proper guitar csn be built using 3D printing! Who would've thought 20 years ago!
My Canon WiFi printers ink is more expensive than some of the plastic rolls I've seen on amazon and ink goes fast, on purpose I'm sure of it
Pretty kick ass
Cool
I love it.
How well did it whithstand the test of time ?
Huh i didnt knew that there were 3d printed guitars now i can make own
Hey, I have that desk! Got a killer deal at Office Depot.
I've always wanted a classic flying V or a Dave Mustaine Jackson style Flying V - I'm sure by the time I was done it would look like nobody's flying V :) but that's the idea! This is great!
you should have made the body in pieces that would interlock to them selves then tie together from the pick up block in the center
it sounds great! but I'm curious about how tune stability compares to wood, since it gives and changes depending on humidity and temperature.
Tuning stability has been surprisingly good in my experience, now having this guitar for over a year. The action has raised and it's hard to combat that since the PLA has slightly warped over time (a redesign with carbon fiber rods may be in order), but day to day tuning has been fairly consistent.
Hey, I wanted to say thank you for this design. It's very well designed in my opinionI would have loved to leave you a tip on thingiverse!
I have almost finished printing all the parts and currently I gather used electronic parts. Although I had some problems with bed adhesion (prusa mk3s) where some corners of the pieces lifted up from the bed, but I think I can still use them.
I used to play guitar a long time ago and was searching for a bigger project to print. So after I saw your model on thingiverse, I decided it's time to pick up an old hobby again. I will post a make on thingiverse of my hopefully well assembled copper/white/maple guitar!
Again, thank you very much!
Thank you! Let me know if you end up building it. I'd love to see someone else with one.
@@AndyDoesGuitar
I finally finished it after some problems. But it works and looks pretty damn fine. Thanks again for the model :) I couldn't be more proud... www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/jwzbow/first_big_project_3d_printed_electric_guitar/
Hi Andy, I'm finishing off my strat design and I am wondering if u would recommend printing it in PETG instead of PLA.
It's true that PETG is less stiff than the PLA, but it deals a lot better with hotter temps.
Also wondering if you managed to find a way to implement carbon fiber rods into the print, as I can't find a reliable place to put them :(.
Cheers! Excited to see your next work.
I have not had a chance to experiment with PETG yet. I've only ever messed with PLA and ABS. PLA is just so much easier to print, it's been a struggle anytime I've tried to print anything with ABS. I have heard that PETG is supposed to be more durable than PLA. Even all the parts for the Prusa printer are printed with PETG because it supposedly can handle more abuse.
I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to put carbon fiber rods in this design, but I am currently printing a new design that will implement a carbon fiber rod down the center of the body. Don't know if that will make it sturdier, but it's a little test I'm conducting. I'm hoping to have the guitar printed by the end of next week. And if all goes well, I plan on making a video about it that will hopefully come soon after.
Yo that sounds amazing. Did you 3D print parts of the neck too or is it wood? How much of this did you actually print?
The neck is a cheap replacement neck I got on ebay. Altogether, the whole thing cost about $250 to put together.
I am going to download those files. I just bought my 3d printer which should arrive tomorrow the 12th of August 2022. I am a complete novice, never attempted to 3d print anything. I am curious though, I play in a band and I want to use your design, but I would love to have my band’s logo on the guitar. How can I do that?
Nice dude. How much did it cost to make this? Not including the printer
please what s the name of the the instrumental song between 7.05 and 8.08 ? thanks
This is a nice looking guitar... I'm not so sure about the pickup/trem mount being printed/plastic - I'm guessing other materials and possibly higher gain pickups might be best - this guy is onto something though...essentially guitar design since the 60's has not changed a lot - other than complete hollow body guitars most are essentially a wood block mount for the neck..much of the tone comes from pickups and the neck in an electric guitar. The 3d printed surrounds could literally be anything...density can change tone - brighter or duller/thicker tones through the material surrounds....I'm thinking hollow chambers which can be filled with different density of liquids to change the sustain properties of neck against the pickup mount block and neck material... Interesting stuff...
Ive made several 3D printed guitars and 100% infill is a massive waste of time and materials and completely unnecessary. The most Ive done on the center portion was 25% infill, with the outer parts being 15% infill. Also, the middle section is usually 2 parts due to the size of my 3D printer and there has been zero issues with warping/bending. Granted I do use PLA+ with a .8mm nozzle, which does significantly increase the strength of the parts. Not really sure where you got this idea that it has to be 100% infill though, but its really just a massive waste. Other than that, your design is amazing and looks incredible. The 1 tone pot is also an interesting design choice. What made you decide to not use 2 tone pots?
Good to know. This was really my first 3d printed guitar, so I didn't get a chance to test different infills. And I've never printed with PLA+, so I'll definitely check it out. For the 1 tone pot, it just suits my kind of playing. I've just never been in the situation where I want certain pickups to have different settings for the tone, so only having one tone knob made more sense to me.
Did you encounter any setup issues, regarding the neck? thanks
How well has it held tune after all this time? Did the neck bend forward or was the printed part able to stay rigid?
Hi Andy. How did you manage to tighten the screws and are they holding well (especially the bridge screws and those holding the bridge springs in place on the back of the guitar)? I am looking into the details as I am considering using your design as a base for a project if you do not mind. Thanks
There are guide holes in the design, and since it's 100% infill on the big piece, the screws thread quite nicely into them. They're holding strong.
I want do do this but I don't know how much this will set me back. How much filament was required? What was your budget?
Noice vroo
damn nice job and 🤟🏼too so i smashed the like and fucked up the bell
Do you think I could do this with my Da Vinci Jr 3D Printer (150 x 150 x 150 mm build size) and not much experience building guitars? I really want to try!
Some of the pieces may have to be split into two pieces. They might be too big for that build plate
@@AndyDoesGuitar thanks for the response, I’ll work on it! Anything else I need to know before I start? I have like no experience
@@Minebender9 Only other real thing I could say is to make sure the neck you order a good neck from a reliable retailer. The neck I used for this guitar was one that I had lying around from a previous project, so I was able to model the guitar's neck pocket around that neck's dimensions. But when I ordered a neck for my Assassin's Creed guitar, I ordered it from some cheap Chinese knockoff store on Ebay, and the dimensions on it were completely different from what was on their spec sheet. I modeled the guitar body based on the spec sheet, so when I got the neck after I had already printed the guitar, the neck didn't fit properly, and I had to make a few modifications after the fact. So just keep that in mind.
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Thank you!
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Hey Andy. Did you really need 100% infill on that centre block? Would you change anything on that to say 50% or 80%?
Hey Andy!! What did you do for the back where the spring goes.
I just modeled it after the strat design. I put small holes in the 3d design for where they need to be screwed in.
Hi Andy! I'm trying to decide on a color for the body. I'm leaning towards Paramount 3D's Hannibal Red. How many spools did it take you to make the outside body (not the 100% infill piece)? Trying to figure out how many spools I need to order for the outside body. I've got the MK3S+ and it took about 30 hours to print the main 100% infill piece, and almost a spool of filament.
For the outside body parts, any piece that had screws that needed to be put in them, I printed at 25% infill, then the rest were 15% infill. I was able to print all those pieces with a single roll of filament.
@@AndyDoesGuitar Thank you for the info, and thank you for the design!
Could you use a dove tail to connect the pieces as well as glue?
I imagine you probably could. I would personally still use some glue just to make sure the pieces wouldn't be sliding around
@@AndyDoesGuitar
That's awesome man!
Literally just sparked an interest in me to pursue 3D printing after I saw some videos on 3D printed guitars, being an avid guitarist- all things guitar... I'm in!
Then after a while of not doing anything about pursuing 3D printing, I watched The Peripheral on prime video l, it got me thinking about the future, what's next, where is the guitar industry going to be heading, and some more questions I've been asking myself and getting into for example now that digital processing of sound is so good compared to ye old pod red bean I had as a young teen, things have come along way! So I'm thinking.. why not go all out digital? 🤔
So my .industry is open to 3D printing, guitars, guitar parts wherever I can, as an already deep passion of mine is in music, guitars and the pursuit of heavenly tones.. its a plausible and highly possible passion that I could get into and make a buck or two as a bi product of that passion.
How well these guitars could be printed in regards to tonality of the structure within the design and the materials- more possibilities and therefore more questions to pursue and answer are building up on my list of preparation before I delve into the world of 3D printing.
The strength, Weight and the balance of the guitar while wearing it on the strap-
how much does your guitar weigh with the neck you used?
Did it balance well while wearing a strap?
With the silk rolls, and honeycomb design structure of the body, did you find the resonant qualities of the body to be more or less, or just more fun to play after novelty wore off - didyou find there to be any significant differences in how the guitar on a whole felt to play, like how it sat on your knee and how comfortable it was or not to hold?
I for me it's all about the neck and fretboard, frets, radius and the pickups are most important, you can Literally use a 3 by 2 piece of lumber as a body and knock and fix a decent bridge and half decent pickups set at the right height and still get a good tone, I'm sure many have seen the guy who made that TH-cam video and did exactly that, but it's also very important to have a comfortable body (and a neck) that feels good and you can feel the vibration from the resonance off the strings, does a honey com substructure under the finish amplify that resonance compared to your wood guitars?
I can see the problems in that regard that can be overcome by 3D printing by alternative designs while at the same time still having a fun and professional look and feel and playability factor that may exceed traditional designs.
Alot of questions, this is literally my first look at 3D printing your video wa the 1st, and my first questions posted here.
Tell a lie, I saw pictures not videos, of your guitar on another site, on "ALL3DP"
Amazing project! I don't know if this is a silly question, I'm new on this, but...can you print the whole body vertically? I mean, a guitar standing and not in horizontal pieces?
Possibly, with a bigger 3D printer. The printer I have doesn't have the print volume to print the whole guitar in one piece, regardless of the orientation.
@@AndyDoesGuitar it also would not be as strong. it is important how the layers are build up,
Great video, how many reels of filament did you have to order for this project? What would you estimate the cost to make the body? Thanks.
Altogether the whole project was about $250. I believe 3 rolls of filament were used. 1 entire roll for the middle piece, 1 roll of blue for the rest of the body, and then 1 roll of gold for the middle "pickguard" and knobs. Since so little gold was used, if you don't care about different colors, you could probably get away with just 2 rolls of filament.
Hey man, just came across this video, thinking of building this at least to have just sit around and look cool, i have no clue about anything having to do with guitars, what would i have to look for to buy to make this, besides the filament for the prints, are there any guitar kits or guitars you'd recommend to look for as a donor for parts, or would it be better to buy the parts i need separately?
It'll probably be cheaper if you guy a stratocaster style guitar kit and just use the polycaster body in place of the guitar body it comes with, but in my experience, the parts that come with kit guitars are pretty cheaply made. I decided to get all the parts separately. In the end it probably ended up costing a little more, but the parts are much higher quality.
If you want to get parts separately you'll need:
- replacement guitar neck (with a 25.5" scale)
- tuning keys (the configuration will depend on the headstock style of neck you get, but mine required 6R keys, meaning all 6 of them are on the right side of the headstock)
- strat-style neck plate
- single coil pickups
- SSS pickup wiring kit (you can fairly easily find pickups that are prewired with everything you need)
- strat pickguitard screws
- stratocaster tremolo bridge kit
I know it might be a lot to swallow if you don't know anything about guitars, so if you just get a kit guitar and use the Polycaster body in place of the guitar body it comes with, it might be a whole lot less complicated, but you're handing off quality for convenience. I probably ended up spending about $250 (parts and filament included) putting this guitar together, and you could probably find a strat-style kit for around $150. But in my opinion, spending the extra $100 to get the parts separately is worth the money.
@@AndyDoesGuitar thanks, you just helped me take a massive jump in the right direction, just 1 more question, do you remember how much filament it took to print the body? I know you said it was 1 roll for the 100% infill on the black piece but I don't think you said what the rest of the pieces added up to be?
Nice Andy. How does it balance while standing? Does the neck dive because of its weight or does the body weight balance it well? Thanks
I was surprised to find out that it balances nicely. I was worried because I expected the body to come out a lot lighter than it actually did, so I was expecting it to lean a lot towards the neck. It's still a bit neck heavy, but not a lot.
@@AndyDoesGuitar Thank you so much Andy
How did you learn blender so well to be able to design this? I tried designing a finger grip for my Canon M100 and failed big time lol. Good job! Sounds nice too.
Lol. Thanks. I've just always used Blender here and there for video production. I'm not super proficient in it, but I know my way around it enough to model and animate things. Since I've been using it for a while, It's just much more intuitive for me to use rather than something like Autodesk, even though CAD is what you're really "supposed" to use for stuff like this. I basically learned how to use Blender from youtube tutorials from guys like the Blender Guru.
@@AndyDoesGuitar Love the Video, brother is a major guitar player and I sent him the video. I also use blender. You're right that there are thing you can do in Blender so much easier, but it does have it's little quirks! And I'm too old to learn something new. Be safe
This is absolutely amazing! How much was the total cost?
Probably about $250, give or take
$40-50 on the filament
$30 for the pickups (they were cheap ones from Amazon)
about $50 for the neck
$40 for the bridge
$30 for the tuning keys
and the rest on the other parts (pots, switch, screws, etc)
What neck exactly did you buy?
Would this work in PETG?
I would assume so. PETG is supposedly more structurally sound than PLA and will last longer, at least to my understanding. I've just never had experience printing with PETG. The few times I've tried to print with it I've had problems, and just didn't have the patience to properly troubleshoot. But everything I've seen makes me think there shouldn't be a problem printing with it for a project like this.