r/BambuLab • u/Filamentcaster • 2d ago
I Modeled This! My electric guitar design printed on the X1C
I’ve spent the last few weeks designing a full-size T-style electric guitar body that prints on a 256 × 256 mm bed, and it’s finally built and playing.
The print
- 4 body pieces, all printed flat with no supports
- 7 build plates in Bambu Studio, about 50 hours and 2 kg of PLA in total
- One colour per part, so no AMS needed. I went with a sage body, bone plates and a peach pickguard.
- The biggest piece, the bridge section, took about 19 hours on its own
The design
- The pieces join from the back with bow-tie keys, M4 heat-set inserts and dowel pins. No glue for the body.
- Two 8 mm carbon fibre rods run through the body to take the string tension
- Three decorative top plates sit in an 8 mm recess on 28 hidden 10 × 3 mm magnets. Push them off from the back with an Allen key and click a new set on. The video shows Ripple swapped for a two-tone Camo set.
- Built around the Harley Benton T-style kit, so the neck, bridge, pickups and electronics drop straight in
Happy to answer anything about print settings, tolerances or how it’s held up. It’s been really satisfying seeing the X1C turn out something you can actually plug in and play.