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# Today I've been making miniature guitars
using an awesome SLS Rapid Prototyping machine.

Look at them tiny LesPauls!!
They stand about 6cm / 2.4 inches high, as they sit in their stand like in the final two pictures.

The stand, neck and body were printed seperately.
Body and neck were glued together and sit snugly in their custom made stand.



(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:43, archived)
# and the lady is whom?
ace work there!
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:44, archived)
# Easy tiger!
haha!
(I helped save b3ta! benkai Doing nothing as of ..., Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:45, archived)
# these things must be clarified
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:46, archived)
# Yes. I agree.
Very nice.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 1:07, archived)
# Many ladies have applied,
one still needs to be selected.

EDIT: oh, that lady. She's a friend.
Pretty girl though, especially without the filters in that pic.
(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:47, archived)
# Cor!!!
these are nice...
any chance you'll be colouring/flogging these??

If you do, I'd love a few gold tops :)
(I helped save b3ta! chunderbunny lacking humus since, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:47, archived)
# That's so disco!
Have a classic Black Beauty like mine :o)
(I helped save b3ta! benkai Doing nothing as of ..., Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:51, archived)
# I don't think I'll be colouring them,
as that would require a lot of working with small tools / eye squinting, whoch is sort of why I've used RP to start with.

As for flogging, They'd probably be too expensive to really sell. I'm talking about €50 for an unfinished one.

I love experimenting with the technique though. While still pretty expensive, it offers loads of new design/engineering possibilities.
(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:53, archived)
# Woo and Boo at the saame time
good luck with the work though...
just be glad I didn't ask for a vintage sunburst ;)
(I helped save b3ta! chunderbunny lacking humus since, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 1:10, archived)
# Business or Personal?
Are these for you own personal benefit, or for a customer of some kind? Got to be quite pricey if you have made them for a bit of fun yourself - Ive got a mate who works in the Rapid prototyping lab at lboro uni!
(jimmy_stavros, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:52, archived)
# I did it to explore some of the possiblities for fine detail using this machine,
I'm an Industrial Design student and I've been so lucky as to have some different type of machines available.

I'm not paying for anything as long as it's for research(or fun) purposes, but yeah, it would be very expensive if I were to start anything commercially.

Unless you're into product design or high-class art, it's not really worth the money yet.
(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:59, archived)
# Do you have handy access to one of those machines do you?
(I helped save b3ta! P3te "the Meat", Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:56, archived)
# Well, prety much.
them scientists let me toy around with it a bit, seeing as that they like printing out pretty stuff that they can put into their display cabinets as much as I do.

I can't wait until the time comes when I have a desktop version in my office tough, I'm starting to get completely fed up with cardboard/foam/clay modeling. Using wood and rock are still nice but take AGES.

This is the future, my friend.
(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 1:05, archived)
# They are great
We got to have a little play with them when I was at Uni. You could send up whatever you wanted to the RP dept for a project - and they would do it. There was quite a lead time though, as I think they were quite popular.
(jimmy_stavros, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 1:08, archived)
# Sweet
I'm a designer and get prototypes made on those things, but I dont get to make stuff for myself :¬(

I imagine in the future we'll have recycling bins full of scrap 3D prints :¬D
(I helped save b3ta! P3te "the Meat", Wed 22 Nov 2006, 1:21, archived)
# Sure.
And just grind them down to powder / whatever your machine eats and recycle every bit of lost material.
(I helped save b3ta! DaSchop gippie, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 1:36, archived)
# awesome tech
good work there lad...

and 'Horrible's quite correct....

...wood!
(MrKane 01234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789, Wed 22 Nov 2006, 0:57, archived)