
muttley600
Banned
I don't know where they got their information from but that's not the world's first 3D printed guitar. There's another dude who made a couple electrics at least a year ago. I'll search out the link and post it when I find it.
As for whether or not plastic beats out wood, I would say that it certainly does with acoustics but electrics is a whole other story. And by the way, what do you think of Ovations? They're mostly plastic, if you didn't already know.
OK since you asked. They got there information from the source. They clarify in the article that others have made solid bodies using this method. If you bothered to read the article you would have known this making your statement redundant.
Moving on to your assertion that "As for whether or not plastic beats out wood, I would say that it certainly does with acoustics but electrics is a whole other story." I would like to know how you have come to that conclusion because you have it ass about face. If anything the materials used to construct an electric are more forgiving by the nature in which the sound is generated. A purely acoustic instrument is the sum of its parts and relies entirely on the materials it is made from to generate a sound.
A solid body guitar relies mostly on the pickup to interpret the vibration of the string. An acoustic relies on the soundboard and the enclosure to do so.
Ovations? Yeh I've handled a few over the years and worked on probably three or four hundred. I see fewer and fewer these days because on board and after market pickups have moved on in the last 10 years making their forte (reliable live performance) not so important. I have never heard one acoustically or recorded that can beat an average solid wood guitar. Ever....