14 DAY TRIAL // Musical instruments come in many levels of sophistication, to the point where I can't help but wonder, sometimes, how on earth people from old times discovered them or even got the idea to make something as bizarrely complex as, say, a set of bagpipes or an accordion.
The guitar was lucky: it already had the lyre and harp as a basis. People already knew what the string could be made of, what the sounds were, etc. They just needed to experiment.
Nevertheless, the guitar is not a simple instrument at all. The electric guitar is much the same, some may even say more complicated than an acoustic one.
Nevertheless, if you're a musician who also knows his way around the mechanics, physics, and electronics of an electric guitar, you can make one yourself. In fact, you can teach others how to make them.
And if you're really into experiments and like to make the best of every new technology that crops up, you might even be tempted to try out new ways to build the different parts of a guitar.
That's what Olaf Diegel has done: begin to 3D print musical instruments, guitars among them. The video embedded below shows just how to go about it. You can do everything from customizing each side of the guitar to engraving your name on various spots on it.
Olaf Diegel has a website for his odd 3D prints. You can go there to check out his drums and even an “oddbot” if you have some spare time to kill.
