cardboard

Teetonetal

thomasross20

Don't get how it'll last forever! Different anyway!

Teetonetal

Because its soaked in some kind of glue/bond.

PolarityMan

That's awesome

Teetonetal

I must admit id love to hear it..

thomasross20

Teetonetal said:

Because its soaked in some kind of glue/bond.

Oh!

ajax

every clip of someone playing it, it was out of tune!

Sassafras

Thought Gibson had been doing this for years.

RaymondLin

That'll last 2 mins in Florida at 100% humidity.

I am amazed though how that isn't crumpling under its own tension. 

Sarge

Outrageous!
Paperjams my arse! I want one!

thebreeze

Completely cool.

I wonder how much it weighs?  Also, I've never really understood the 3-D printing thing but maybe this is what we can expect in the future?  Fender, or whoever, can just wire us a guitar into the home? (I guess that would solve all the courier problems, RyanAir, baggage handlers etc. too?)

NickBotfield

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axisus

That's thinking outside the box ..... er ........

hobbio

ajax said:

every clip of someone playing it, it was out of tune!

Also, the neck was clearly bending under string tension. You could see how high the action was in some of the shots, and in others it looked like the strings weren't running in line with the neck.

Still, it wasn't supposed to be a treasure for future generations and they did make a playable guitar out of cardboard. It looks cools as fuck too!

Rocker

Wonder how it will react to player sweat?  And it helps if the guitar is in tune [did nobody check before playing?]

markv

Just the fact that you can do this with cardboard is impressive (bear in mind it's an advert for the *cardboard* making company, not Fender, afaict).

3D printing is the future though surely? You can make a guitar that looks way cooler than that with 3D printing, that is properly viable and structurally sound. Like this (albeit bloody expensive): http://cubify.com/store/design?reference=L57Y46HL39

PolarityMan

markv said:

3D printing is the future though surely? 

No, 3D printing is a process for making a physical object from a three-dimensional digital model, typically by laying down many successive thin layers of a material. 

By way of contrast the future is a period of time following the moment of speaking or writing; time regarded as still to come.

And despite your grumpy buggers that cardboard guitar is still awesome.

Sassafras

Here's one I made earlier. 

Before Fender nicked my idea.

EricTheWeary

markv said:

Just the fact that you can do this with cardboard is impressive (bear in mind it's an advert for the *cardboard* making company, not Fender, afaict).

3D printing is the future though surely? You can make a guitar that looks way cooler than that with 3D printing, that is properly viable and structurally sound. Like this (albeit bloody expensive): http://cubify.com/store/design?reference=L57Y46HL39

Having played a 3D printed guitar ( not the one in the link admittedly) what you get is a guitar made out of plastic with all the resonant qualities of a guitar made out of plastic and the realisation of why they don't normally make guitars out of plastic. 

markv

EricTheWeary said:

markv said:

Just the fact that you can do this with cardboard is impressive (bear in mind it's an advert for the *cardboard* making company, not Fender, afaict).

3D printing is the future though surely? You can make a guitar that looks way cooler than that with 3D printing, that is properly viable and structurally sound. Like this (albeit bloody expensive): http://cubify.com/store/design?reference=L57Y46HL39

Having played a 3D printed guitar ( not the one in the link admittedly) what you get is a guitar made out of plastic with all the resonant qualities of a guitar made out of plastic and the realisation of why they don't normally make guitars out of plastic. 

But look the gears move and everything! :-)

Maybe it's not so viable then ... wonder if it's better or worse than that cardboard guitar though?