3D Printed guitar building parts?

[Chistopher]

Any of you guys use 3d printed parts for guitar builds to add in manufacture?

I have a 3d printed mitre box for cutting fret slots and drill templates for inline tuners and Tele string ferrules. Anything else I should add?

 

[uOpt]

I'm always dreaming of making these little flaps that close battery compartments. They tend to break or get lost.

But I don't know whether any 3D printed material has just the right flexibility for the springy tab.

 

[ehdwuld]

Can you make a pickguard with a 3d printer?

Maybe not a full strat
But maybe a short tele style?

Give it some texture?

Seems like you could print a glow in the dark logo
Then inlay it on the headstock

 

[Chistopher]

Can you make a pickguard with a 3d printer?

Maybe not a full strat
But maybe a short tele style?

Give it some texture?

Seems like you could print a glow in the dark logo
Then inlay it on the headstock

I don't care for plastic on the guitar, but as a cheap prototyping tool its helpful. Perhaps I could print a guard off as a template for a wooden one

 

[ehdwuld]

Hmmmm when you asked about 3d parts for guitar.
I got confused

Templates for routes and such are always an option

I would prefer those as Lexan or polycarbonate. Clear with centerline

But yeah , what you said

 

[ehdwuld]

Pickup rings?

Ryan at 60 cycle hum says the filament doesn't like nitrocelulose finish

I dunno

 

[Mincer]

I bet a 3d printer could do a great leg rest for a Steinberger. They are like $80 for a 1x4" piece of plastic.

 

[ehdwuld]

Oh those little asymmetrical stands for strandbergs

 

[Mincer]

Oh those little asymmetrical stands for strandbergs

It is one of these small things. One company is charging $100. It is plastic, and it bolts on to the bottom of the traditional Steinberger shapes.

 

[marcello252]

Nut would be interesting, but the slots are really tiny to print.
Fancy pickups rings and custom pickups adapting mounting supports another option, for example I'd use it to mount a standard tele pu on a jumbo mfd g&l cavity

 

[Chistopher]

Pickup rings?

Ryan at 60 cycle hum says the filament doesn't like nitrocelulose finish

I dunno

The filament I'd be using is far from standard. Our work printer puts out chopped carbon fiber. It doesn't get used enough, so sometimes I have to print something just to keep it working.

The filament becomes useless if stored in open air for 15 minutes for context. Once you print, its rock solid though

 

[GuitarStv]

Pickup rings?

Weird pickup rings that are hard to find would be cool. Like conversion rings:

I'd love a conversion ring to allow me to mount a firebird pickup in a humbucker slot too.

 

[Chistopher]

^^That's the sort of thing I would like to do with odd materials. Sheet metal perhaps?

 

[ehdwuld]

Those little spacers you put under dog ear p90s to raise the height

 

[ehdwuld]

This is what I was thinking

https://amzn.to/4e17mA5