Could this be the start of a new trend?

[Marillionred]

[url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29328647"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...nology-29328647[/url]

Somehow I doubt Warwick or Fender need worry too much - but the bass does look kinda cool.
Note you can hardly hear it on the clip - I wonder why?

[discreet]

Looks a bit gimmicky to me. Like that wheel thing and that stupid lightbulb - they never caught on.

[BigRedX]

It doesn't look as though any of the major structural or sound generating parts of the instruments were 3-D printed.

Also the guitar and bass appear to be [url="http://www.odd.org.nz"]ODD designs[/url] who aren't very Swedish at all...

Edited September 24, 2014 by BigRedX

[Qlank]

Only audible part was the drums. metal cymbals and skins. 3d printing = arse.

[HowieBass]

Watched the clip and heard at best about a clear 5 seconds of music with (probably) an ambient mic so I wasn't able to hear much of either guitar or bass but I doubt the lack of volume I heard was because of the 3D printed body - but this to me seems like a solution looking for a problem... CNC milling of timber is probably orders of magnitude faster than 3D printing an intricate body which is made complicated just for show. Electronic instruments such as keyboards already have injection moulded plastic bodies and clear acrylic drum shells too; then you've got carbon fibre and moulded composite bass bodies (Luthite used in Cort Curbows) so what's the point of printing?

[Weststarx]

I deffinately think 3D Printing is the future, it might be nothing yet but I think it will revolutionise manufacturing.

What even cooler is that you can buy these printer for home use!

[url="https://www.google.co.uk/#q=3d+printer&tbm=shop"]https://www.google.co.uk/#q=3d+printer&tbm=shop[/url]

[PlungerModerno]

3D printing is, as HowieBass said: "a solution looking for a problem" in this case. It's looking for interesting and profitable applications. It has yet to find a major application like CNC and other manufacturing techniques.

I may be wrong of course, but nobody has told me of an industry 3D printing thousands or millions of items - I guess it's mainly an issue of cost.

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Weststarx' timestamp='1411635982' post='2561321']
What even cooler is that you can buy these printer for home use!

[url="https://www.google.co.uk/#q=3d+printer&tbm=shop"]https://www.google.c...rinter&tbm=shop[/url]
[/quote]

However [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23727229]this[/url] is probably what you are mostly going to get out of one.

ATM the resolution for 3D printing is very low compared with what you can do with conventional fabricating techniques. That will limit what can be created with them.

[discreet]

Well it's early days, really. Novelty items, anyone..?

[url="http://www.thingiverse.com/"]http://www.thingiverse.com/[/url]

I can see a proper use for some of the medical and food-related objects, but 3D printing needs a really good mass-use purpose before 3D printers take off big time. Then everyone will wonder how on Earth they did without them...

...and archaeologists of the future will wonder what the hell happened as our incredible layer of rubbish suddenly got a lot thicker...

[IzzyT2807]

No thanks