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UPDATE 1: I've Added a Little Video for You to See the Gears in Action: https://youtu.be/DH4wXGN3lu0 I'm Holding My 3D Printed Guitar Right Now. Follow Me on Instagram (You'll See Videos of the Guitar in Action - Don't Forget to Like It There!) Hugo Archicad I Have Zero Music Knowledge, But I Love Making Things. My Friend Steve Has a Band Called 44 Inch Chest and He Saw This Guitar on YouTube That Was 3D Printed. He Jokingly Asked Me to Make One Just Like It for Him. I Said I Would Need a Donor Guitar First, So He Got One at a Flea Market. It Sat in My Wardrobe for About Six Months Until One Day I Couldn't Think of What to 3D Print Next, So I Started Working on the Guitar. In Terms of Parts, I Used the Donor Guitar, Pulled It All Apart, Then I Photocopied It and Began Modeling. I Had to Reduce the Body by 97% to Get It to Fit on My CR-10 Because It Said It Had a 300x300x400 High Build Area But the Reality Was a Little Smaller. I Didn't Shrink Anything Else Except the Body. I Used Gears from a Thingiverse Post That Someone Else Had Made Already. I Didn't Shrink Any of Those Either. Because of the 97% Reduction, I Had to Cut Away a Little of the Wooden Handle Thing Because It Wouldn't Slot Perfectly. List of Things You Need to Make This Guitar: About Two Kilos of PLA -1 Mini Servo Motor Which I Had to Open to Make Sure It Would Do Full Rotation (I Found the Answer on YouTube) -1 EL Wire (One Meter) with Its Electronic Part -1 Battery Holder (Two AA Batteries) for the Servo -Glue (Clear for the EL Wire) -Glue to Stick the Main Guitar Pieces, the Bottom Lid Has a Groove on Its Top for the Glue to Go On So It Doesn't Lift the Lid Too Much With the Thickness of the Glue Blob -Wire to Add Length to the Components and That Tube Thing That You Put on the Wires That Shrinks When You Put It Under Heat or a Cigar Lighter (I Don't Know the Name, But Better Than Using Electrical Tape - Looks So Professional with All the Soldering Stays Put) I Wanted to Fit the Servo Motor Battery Inside the Guitar, I Left a Space There but Couldn't Get the EL Wire to Work Without Its Little Box. There Is Some Electronic Stuff in It That I Couldn't Get Out of the Box, So It Sits Outside. I Would Like to Find a Way to Fit It Inside (My Electronic Know-How Isn't the Best). I Did Manage to Solder All the Connections and Connect a Switch (A Key That Turns the Servo On). I Designed Everything to Conceal the Wiring and Made Hidden Little Tunnels to Run the Wiring, and Also Made a Little Channel to Run the EL Wire Through Cleanly. I Don't Know If My Donor Guitar Is Like Other Guitars So the Design I Have Made Works for This Guitar But Don't Know If It Would Work on Others. No Supports Needed Anywhere. A Nice Big 3D Printer Would Be Nice, but Nothing Stopping Anyone from Cutting It Up in Pieces. If You Do End Up Cutting It in Pieces, Don't Shrink Anything Then Everything Will Work Perfectly. Enjoy! I Know I Did Designing It and Putting It Together. Also When Putting Screws, I Learned That If You Put Your Soldering Iron on Top of the Screw for a Bit and Hold It There, the Heat Transfers to the Plastic Making It Easier to Screw, Then When It's Cooled, It Sticks Super Well. One Thing...the Gears Are Not My Design - I Got Them from Here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2218127 And Have Added Them Here So You Can Download Everything You Need from One Place.