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Gaia

Boy, have my carving skills improved! Meet Gaia, my latest guitar creation. It’s made of rare New Zealand pseudonium wood that was air-dried for 10 years by the warm breath of Vestal virgins and can only be carved on a moonlit night. 🤣

Seriously, though, it’s 3D printed, in full colour, out of an acrylate material on a material jetting 3D printing system. The only carving done was digital, and the only trees killed were virtual.

The design was done using a combination of multiple software packages. First, Solidworks for the main body, and then a half of a woman’s head that I found on Thingiverse, created by DTB from cnctar.hobbycnc.hu, which I squashed, and mirrored to form a full low-profile head in Magics, then smoothed it using nTop, digitally carved the extra hair extensions in Meshmixer, deformed the head and hair in Blender to match the curvature of the body front, and finally assembled all the bits and pieces together in Magics.

The guitar includes the following example specifications:

Neck	Warmoth Pro Warhead maple neck with rosewood fret board, 22 frets, 25 1/2" scale, 42.86mm (1 11/16") width, Graphtec nut, 6150 sized jumbo frets, 10-16" compound radius fret board, black inlay dots. Walnut logo inlay
Body	3D printed in full-colour acrylate on a Mimaki 3DUJ-553 full-colour 3D printer
Inner core	Maple inner core linging the neck to the bridge
Bridge	Schaller 3D-6, 6 String Flat Mount Bridge, gold
Pickups	Seymour Duncan SH-59 Vintage Blues pickups
Tuning heads	Gotoh SG510 Locking Tuners, gold
Controls	3 position Schaller Mehaswitch-P pickup select switch, 1 x Volume knob, 1 x Tone knob
Other	Schaller Strap Locks, Pure Tone multi-contact jack, Schaller knobs, D'Addario strings
Weight	4.3Kg
Each guitar is custom made to order to suit your needs. Click HERE to email us and discuss your requirements.

Below are pictures of some of the details of the guitar: