Let me tell you guys a little story
What I have in front of me is all of the pieces that I need
To assemble an electric guitar more specifically a Stratocaster
I didn't design this
I'm gonna leave a link to the person who did below
So like a lot of people, in my late teens I decided that the most important skill in life is learn how to play guitar
And so I went ahead and spent all my time learning how to play guitar
Now it's still pretty cool actually, I like being able to play guitar
I'm not so much of an electric guitar player
but the reason that I have this guitar in front of me is because
The real problem with knowing how to play guitar is unless you're really good at playing guitar
There's no reason for you to play anywhere except for your living room
And so there's really no good excuse to go into public places and show off this newfound ability to play guitar
And so I have come up with a plan
You see I fit in that category of "okay, but not very good." But I'd really like to show off my ability to play guitar
so what I've decided to do is 3d print a guitar and
Bring it with me to Indiana. Now if you have no idea why I'm bringing up, Indiana
It's because you haven't been there and there is MRRF or Midwest RepRap Festival
If you're not familiar with it
it's a 3D printing convention that a whole bunch of people show up to and it's a really fun time and
I needed an excuse to bring a guitar and the best excuse I could come up with was to 3D print one
You see it's a 3D printing Festival.. *fades out*.
So the entire plan is to 3D printer guitar..
Glue it together..
See if I can make it work and then bring it to MRRF. So let's get to..
Scraping these edges off of these pieces and glue this stuff together
You may not know this but there's a problem inherent to 3D printing when it comes to stuff with sharp corners
When the 3D printers nozzle is coming up along this edge and it needs to turn and go this way..
It's not actually possible for it to stop
Instantaneously and turn in this direction. Stops at this corner
There's a likelihood that it's going to go past the end of the corner and that's what I'm fixing here
Is that even though this is really flat edges on all of these parts?
There is still bumps on all of the corners and it's just really common with 3D printed stuff
And so I'm cleaning those up so that when I try to glue this stuff together
Like so: So that it's full contact along the whole side rather than just the edges
*Scraping and Sanding Montage*
Now it's time to glue them together and for that I've got a little trick up my sleeve..
You see awhile ago a company by the name of (I think they're called) 3D gloop sent me this
Glue basically, it's it's I meant to glue PLA parts together. They have some for ABS too and
You could also use it for build plate adhesion
But they sent this to me free of charge and told me to try it out
I never did until now so I'm doing it now
So we're gonna try to use this to glue these parts together
*Montage continues*
All right, so we took a little break there and I took some time to read the official instructions for 3d glue
Now what they suggest is that you sand down the surfaces which makes a lot of sense and so I went ahead and did that
so the other thing is that it's very
Specifically says do not get this on your hands, so I actually invested in some gloves don't judge
It says don't get it on your hands
Now I know a lot of the time it's like don't get it on your hands, even though it isn't really bad
This stuff has a lot of warnings on it. I'm not gonna take my chances
We have gloves, we got safety glasses, and it's time to glue this stuff together
Let's not start with the most structural stuff first. Let's start with the the stuff. That isn't such a big deal
So this is the very back that a guitar that's where the bridge mounts where the strings attached to
So this is gonna be the weakest or could be the weakest part of the guitar and it won't really hurt as much
So I'm gonna try to glue these two parts together. First I'm gonna make sure that they line up
And they do and since I sanded them down, they fit really nicely together. I can feel that they
Have nice meeting surfaces on it. I believe all I need to do is set them on this table
Which hopefully isn't also PLA and glue them together
So let's give it a try. Should I make sure the stuff doesn't glue stuff to the table?
Okay, I lost my mic we were gonna make sure that this doesn't glue stuff to the table first
This is the weirdest thing I've ever done
*Gluing montage*
Okay, so
And I'm just gonna hold it together as long as I can and put pressure on it and make sure I keep it aligned
All right, it seems to be attached
I got my answer. No, this glue does not stick to the table.
That's good. That's really good
Okay, so we glued the
Backside of the body together. We've got that the glue's gonna have to set for I guess, 30 minutes
So we'll do the next section while we're waiting
Somebody didn't sand this part down should probably do that, huh?
Okay, so that should go together just like so
*Blows dust*
So, let's apply our glue to there
So much for the gloves, huh?
Okay, so this part is now together and setting
And I guess I should probably get a new pair of gloves, I think putting gloves on the previous degloved hands is gonna be challenging
How do doctors do this?
Alright
We got new gloves. Now it's time to glue together the very back which is where the guitar body attaches to the neck
All right, and I think that's pretty much set
That's close enough for the girls we go out with, okay so this, I believe, is set and now
Hmmm
Nope
What am I doing wrong here? Oh
There we go, Oh, what are the chances that that's like
Sliced perfectly so that both these surfaces are showing
This is starting to look a lot worse than I thought it would
It's just covered in glue. I'm hoping that the glue cleans up easily it'll look a lot better when it's not covered in glue
I might even end up painting this thing maybe sanding it down and painting it to make it look really nice
Not really sure yet, though. I think I should just finish this up and glue it together
If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. Okay, we're gonna go for the last glue
*Last glue*
*Drops brush*
Hehe
Yep
You know I should have sanded this edge because it's not straight well I can see some light through it
But not everywhere
So inside here is where the pickups go and no one's ever gonna see this part of the guitar
so I can use this to let some 3D Gloop sink in and
Uh
Better deal with this seam
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Well, I think that the glue is finally done setting and I've let this set overnight
So that means that it's day 2, hour..
Zero.
Oh Wow! Heh
That was a lot easier than I thought it would be
That already fits nicely this audio jack needs to go in this hole right here
and it doesn't quite sit flat
*Scrapes around hole*
Yeah sure does, fits all the way in. Now we'll see if the bridge fits, and after that we will get the pick guard in..
And we'll go from there.
'Case you are wondering this is the donor guitar. This is actually the first guitar I ever bought, I paid 50 bucks for it.
I would have used the electronics and the pickguard off of this one. They would have fit but they don't work.
So I wasn't about to go and spend a bunch of time diagnosing
electronics issues with stuff that I don't understand
So I was able to get this pick guard off of Amazon for 40 bucks is a pretty good deal
Okay, so: three Springs
This wire that thing
This
That
That's kind of shitty
Seems as though the holes that they left in the plastic for these six screws are
Spaced just slightly differently than I need them to be
So that means that I'm gonna have to pre-drill my own holes
So I don't split the body in half 'cause these screws go directly into a seam between this part and this part
which means that there is some pretty thick plastic there that
Might actually cause it to break if I just decided to shove the screws in
*Jamming*
For as much fun as I'm having we still have to finish with the bridge
So what I haven't done is: the back of this bridge is floating, right?
So what goes inside here is: these three springs hook on to this thing and
Pull it
and basically that
Kind of leaves it floating a little bit so it can move so that when you put your whammy bar into here you can bend
this and
Kind of spring the whole thing forward which will lower the pitch of all this all the strings
so these three Springs need to go in here with this bracket and
Then we can continue to have fun
Oh, right, there's not a whole lot left now, I think
well, we have to pull those two strings back off and then we can put the pickguard in and
Then we have to solder four wires, I believe
three actually
two of them go to the connection and then one of them needs to go to the metal parts of the guitar in back so
yeah, we'll do that quick and
See if it works I guess
so I'll admit, I cheated a little bit and while the camera was off loading the last clip I
Decided to put in the pick guard, and the audio jack, and I soldered up three wires. I
haven't managed to put the backplate in yet, but I also
Put the strings on and I kind of put it together by myself. So I
Haven't heard what this sounds like yet, and I've got this cord since I don't have an amplifier
I'm gonna try to use an old Bluetooth speaker and see if I can hear this thing work for the first time
So let's give this a try. I'm really curious. This will be my very first time hearing this guitar
Yeah
Okay, so it's not very loud because this speaker is not designed to be hooked directly up to a guitar, but it is working
And it's also horribly out of tune so
The next thing that we're gonna have to do is tune this guitar
So when I tune this guitar, this could actually get kind of ugly
I feel like if it's gonna break its gonna break when I tune it now
You heard me playing it and I tuned it relative to itself. It might even be a full step down
The strings aren't as tight as I think they need to get for it to be completely in tune. So
I'm gonna tune this and I'm gonna let you guys watch me tuning it because if it does break, that's what it's gonna break
So let's go and do that
*Tuning*
Yeah, it sounds pretty good
I'm happy with that. Now. If only I had a way to do distortion. Oh I do
Hahaha I have a plan!
I happen have a Mac computer and a Mac computers they come with GarageBand
and I have a thing that I can plug the guitar into the computer
and
play music into the computer to which I can record it there and then I have like
Almost every single guitar sound effect in the world. Not really but like
There's so many of 'em!
*Jamming*
*.  Plays Guns 'N' Roses - "Sweet Child O Mine"  *
*   Plays Sixpence None the Richer - "Kiss Me"  *
All right, so let's talk about this
There are a few problems that are pretty obvious right off the hop
The first one is that the strings are way too close to the frets down here now
I believe the way that you fix that is to adjust the truss rod
Because I've got plenty of space
Here either that or space off the what they call the "nut"
Which is where the strings come through here if I spaced that out this way
Then I wouldn't have such trouble with the strings hitting the frets, the other issue that I actually can't prove but well
Maybe I can, is that this intonation is probably wrong you see on this guitar
This biggest string here is called the low E string and when you play the string open, it should be playing an E
and when you play it at the 12th fret
It should also play the same note
but one octave higher and I'd be willing to bet that since I changed the body of this guitar that
My intonation is gonna be set wrong and not adjust that by adjusting the overall length of the string. So
Even though I could tune the string by
Adjusting the tension of it. I can't tune this note without adjusting the length of the string. So
That takes actually a lot of effort. I'll have to use my tuner and see. Yeah, wow this guitar already went out of tune
All right, so that's in tune
That's high
But it's close
So yeah, the intonation on this will need to be set but I'll do that on my own
Until then. Thank you guys so much for watching
* Plays Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train" *
