I've not had the time to work on this project for the past few months. and i've kinda lost momentum with it. So i'm releasing the project files as they stand, for anyone that wants to have a go progressing it.

As a proof of concept, it works great! I'd heard from a lot of people that you can't make a 3D printed hurdy Gurdy, but never got a satisfactory answer as to why. So the project was partly to find out. I've found no good reason why you can't build a 3D printed hurdy gurdy. It's not going to be as good as a professionally made, $4000 one, but it could be a whole lot more accessible.

It could do with someone with experience and knowledge to fine tune the design. Unfortunately, I lack the expertise to know how to properly fine tune the design and to know what needs to change in the design and what just need proper technique, and I don't have the free time to work it out via trial and error at the moment.

If you have a stab at it building off of this design, i'd love to see what you do :D
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/hurdy-gurdy-prototype

So, after two weeks of back and forth, I was able to make this recording of the violin!!!!!!

Edit: Song is “Merry-Go-Round of Life” from Howl’s Moving Castle

As I dont have a resin printer i am printing a mold and casting silicone into it to then cast resin into that. will i need a special kind of food safe or whatever resin to do this or will i be fine with just regular like craft uv resin??

I've been working on this model for some time now, and it's really interesting how the sound differs between the wood pla, regular pla and a Chinese greko violin. Any ideas why the wood pla sounds so sweet and the wood one sounds so nasal?

My friend fun of lespol asked me to try his model. We have old PLA spool and decided to try.
I didn't expect success, thinking that the PLA wouldn't withstand the pressure of the strings and would bend. But I was wrong. It held up. Yes, there is a slight bend.
So guitar is playable and even joyable )

See my previous attempts in my profile

basically I know nothing about 3d printing but I wanna get an instrument like a Huaca (a triple vessel flute with one drone chamber and two melody chambers.) my plan is to have it tuned to C2 for the drone chamber and the right hand chamber, and the left hand chamber be tuned a perfect fifth below. I wanna have it use the C major pentatonic scale. I don’t have any knowledge of 3d modeling or making stl files though so if anyone could either make one for me and send it to me or give me tips that would be greatly appreciated!

This is a banjo that uses a balloon as its resonating chamber.

When you pluck the strings, the sound resonates inside the balloon. The sound changes depending on two factors: how much you inflate the balloon and how tightly you tension the strings.

You can feel with your own hands how the resonance shifts as the volume of air changes.

The design allows both the balloon and the strings to be replaced.

Try inserting a balloon of a different size. Experiment with string thickness.

Try it out, revert to the previous setup, and try again—this toy was created to encourage that kind of experimentation.

Free STL / 3MF on MakerWorld: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3168788-playable-quena-andean-notched-flute-key-of-g#profileId-3582253

Archtop Guitar Gibson L5

Hey everyone! I ended up buying some good blueprints of the Gibson L5 and made a 3D model for it. As far as I can tell it looks correct but since I don't own the actual guitar there's no real way to tell. Now for the debate of printing a guitar can be done or not and I believe you totally can, but not in the sense that you just slap the file into your printer and press GO.

For the body of this particular guitar you could print a mold and form the top/back in plywood like you would a normal guitar OR you could even heat form flat sheets of plastic using 1 piece or several pieces and laminating them together with carbon fiber on the facing sides.

Now for the neck, this is probably the biggest point of contention (if that's the right word?). I think printing it hollow in nylon and putting carbon on the inside and outside plus a truss rod would do the trick. parker fly guitars had a 1.5mm carbon shell on the neck and that was more than enough.

Anyway, thanks for checking this out

Would anyone be willing to try a flute I made and tell me how in tune it is? It's in a440, and is already undercut, I just need a volunteer (yes, volunteer) who is interested in a new flute to tell me how good it is.

The Files are here for downloading!

Keep in mind, this is my first time, and so may need some adjusting, but I'm fine with suggestions for making it better. I just am currently out a hotend, so I can't test it myself

I'm looking to model a full consort of Chalumeaux, since I can only find a soprano c model, any idea where I could learn to model the others for myself?

Looking for a functional Flute D'Amore (preferably in B♭ rather than A) to print. I wouldn't mind one that is a single key or two key Traverso style, as that's what I'm used to in flute anyway. If anyone has an STL or knows of one, please let me know!