A new invention, however, is giving guitarists the option to play in many different ways with only one guitar. New Yorker Andrew Strassell used 3D printing to invent a system of interchangeable pic… ...

But, armed with the right CAD software, you can really make a guitar that looks like whatever you want, while the 3D printer does all the hard work of making it a reality.

Pete Townshend of The Who demolishes his guitar at the Stadium in Sydney in 1968. 3d-printed gear could withstand such treatment. Diegel is an exponent of 3D printing.

As far as anyone seems to know, this is the first 3D-printed acoustic guitar on the planet, and it raises all kinds musical possibilities.

Phewph. The actual guitar parts comprise a maple inner core, Warmoth custom neck, Seymour Duncan pickups, Schaller bridge and Gotoh 510 mini locking tuners (full specs below); the aluminium body, ...

I think it's fair to say, though, that none have ever looked quite as extraordinarily beautiful as Olaf Diegel's 3D-printed Scarab and Spider electric guitars.