Scott Summitt’s 3D-printed guitar
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Scott Summitt, one of the world’s leading 3D printing and design experts, has just created a 3D-printed guitar. The guitar was printed from $3,000 worth of plastic with a wooden headstock, and surprisingly, it sounds pretty good too. Summitt partnered with 3D Systems to fullfil his childhood dream of creating his ideal guitar, and he hopes that in the near future people can use 3D-printing technology to create their ideal guitars as well.
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Olli Saturday 13 October 2012
I want to 3D-print a pizza.
scott summit Tuesday 16 October 2012
I should point out that this is not the first 3d printed guitar – that belongs to a very talented designer named Olaf Diegel, who has created a number of amazing electrics. This might be the first 3D printed acoustic, but that is less the issue either. My goal was to explore the range of new sound that might come from the vast versatility offered by 3D printing. This was a prototype, and it indeed did sound good (you can hear it on NPR’s All Things Considered from last Tuesday). I don’t see this ever replacing a traditional guitar any more than the National Steel did, but it may come to be a form of arriving at a unique, custom sound.