Olaf Diegel is a design engineer and professor of mechtronics at Massey University in Auckland, New Zealand. He uses 3D printing to design custom manufactured guitars. The 3D printing technology that is used is called Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) and prints by spreading layers of nylon powder that are approximately 0.1mm each.
Though the rest of the guitar's hardware is just what is normally used in guitars, the 3D printed guitar body is unique since it is not solid or simply with a few holes or shapes. Instead, these 3D guitars take standard body shapes and focuses on the negative spaces created within those standard body shapes.
the 3D printed guitars are incredible, from both a functional and aesthetic point of view. what a great way to combine art and music!
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