I'm building a really, really big printer big printer. Actually, it's more accurately called a long printer, with a meter-long y axis. This printer has been sitting in my basement unfinished for a few months now. I'm not proud of that, so maybe I need a reason to finish it.

This is a 3D printed guitar. The entire guitar -- except for the bridge, frets, pickups, and tuners -- will be printed in one single piece. The goal of this project is to test out my 'extended Y axis' printer, which means I need a really long, but not too wide guitar to print.

The guitar I'm modeling this on is the Gibson Firebird. This design is unique in that the headstock, neck, and body are one single (laminated) piece of wood. I'm going to print the headstock, neck, and body as one gigantic monolithic part. The sides and fretboard will be glued on, but whatever.

As far as details go, I'm going to use the fancy Kluson banjo tuners, tuneomatic with stoptail, and P90s. Pretty standard, except for the P90s. Neck strength is a consideration, so in addition to a truss rod, I'm going to throw in some carbon fiber neck rods.

This is all still very much a work in progress, but I already have most of the body modeled:

Fuck Firebird tuners are heavy: