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Concert Ukulele
by triumphtotty
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### March 2023 update
15 months after I designed and printed this, and it still plays well. There is some minor change to the action height and intonation, but PLA is inevitably going to distort under the force of the strings. It still plays well up to about the 8th or 9th fret. There are ways I could reinforce the soundboard to lessen this distortion, so drop a message if you're interested and I'll go back and update the design a little.
I designed this over a year before I played a real ukulele, and it still impresses me how good the sound and feel of the 3D printed instrument is!
### 31st December 2021 modification to v4
I've added a v4 BodyBot as I found that v3 was slowly distorting across the bridge over time. v4 uses cross-bracing (similar to acoustic guitars) rather than the naive linear bracing I used with v3.
The other parts are unchanged, so I've left them as v3, i.e. download v4_BodyBot and v3 of everything else for one ready to print ukulele!
### Som
15 months after I designed and printed this, and it still plays well. There is some minor change to the action height and intonation, but PLA is inevitably going to distort under the force of the strings. It still plays well up to about the 8th or 9th fret. There are ways I could reinforce the soundboard to lessen this distortion, so drop a message if you're interested and I'll go back and update the design a little.
I designed this over a year before I played a real ukulele, and it still impresses me how good the sound and feel of the 3D printed instrument is!
### 31st December 2021 modification to v4
I've added a v4 BodyBot as I found that v3 was slowly distorting across the bridge over time. v4 uses cross-bracing (similar to acoustic guitars) rather than the naive linear bracing I used with v3.
The other parts are unchanged, so I've left them as v3, i.e. download v4_BodyBot and v3 of everything else for one ready to print ukulele!
### Som
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