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Headless Gourd Shaped Pocket Size Ukulele for 200mm Printers by Big1
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Some has asked me about how to print my gourd shaped ukuleles (e.g. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1868201) on smaller printers as the unibody design requires delta style printers that can print the unit vertically with ~500mm height and 200mm x 100mm on the X-Y plane.
Although the use case of accommodating smaller printers are anticipated in my Gugulele scripts (https://github.com/bguan/gugulele), it may be unclear to casual users how to drive the parameters to make it happen. So I have generated this pocket sized ukulele model (scale length 280mm ~11") to make it possible to print on printers with Print Size ( X Y Z ) of at least 200mm x 200mm x 50mm, and model is to be printed in a horizontal fashion.
The pieces are to be glued together. Through body grooves are there for 2 carbon fiber rectangular rods (e.g. http://www.acpsales.com/.125-x-.325-Rectangular-Rod.html) to counter the strain from string tension. The tuner holes are placed at the tail end, with design that can is compatible with most ukulele and guitar tuners ranging from $5 to $50 units, but some rimming may be necessary.
I haven't printed and made this particular model yet, so please let me know if you've made one and succeeded.
Although the use case of accommodating smaller printers are anticipated in my Gugulele scripts (https://github.com/bguan/gugulele), it may be unclear to casual users how to drive the parameters to make it happen. So I have generated this pocket sized ukulele model (scale length 280mm ~11") to make it possible to print on printers with Print Size ( X Y Z ) of at least 200mm x 200mm x 50mm, and model is to be printed in a horizontal fashion.
The pieces are to be glued together. Through body grooves are there for 2 carbon fiber rectangular rods (e.g. http://www.acpsales.com/.125-x-.325-Rectangular-Rod.html) to counter the strain from string tension. The tuner holes are placed at the tail end, with design that can is compatible with most ukulele and guitar tuners ranging from $5 to $50 units, but some rimming may be necessary.
I haven't printed and made this particular model yet, so please let me know if you've made one and succeeded.