Zoybar is a like Meccano for music. It’s an open-source guitar kit which you put together yourself, and the modular parts can be arranged in many combinations to make differently shaped instruments. The kit can be bought in either bass or six-string configurations, but the twist is that you can further customize the designs yourself.
The guitar kits are licensed under the Creative Commons, and the CAD files can be downloaded and freely tweaked in the open source 3-D software, Blender. Here we see the Zoybar Tor, a fretless six-string whose body is 3-D printed to give pretty much the minimum amount of material to work. There’s a scoop to rest on your leg, an arch at the top on which you can rest your arm and, well, that’s about it.
The Zoybar kits ship with a fretless neck, tuning gears, a humbucker pickup (it looks like an old PAF pickup) plus parts to make a skeletal body, and some bolts and Allen wrenches to hold it all together. Prices start at $670, and go up depending on shipping options.
So how does a 3-D printed guitar sound? Check it out:
Zoybar Tor [Zoybar. Thanks, Glen!]
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