Notice: Please read this text carefully this is not a simple project, and it is possible to hurt yourself making this. Please wear safety goggles while tightening and tuning for the first time, or do not hold the violin up by your face. A mouth guard wouldn't hurt either. While I personally haven't encountered problems, we all know 3D printed parts are not 100% reliable. Even though probably nothing will happen, if something does, you'll wish you had taken precaution. Violin strings can hold around 80 lbs of force. If the neck were to snap, it will hit pretty hard.
Read about its construction and material analysis here
The link from the source/remix to original files has been broken. For the sake of preserving history, I'll relink the original source.
More links I found in 2023 for record so they aren't lost to the void of time:
https://forum.prusa3d.com/forum/english-forum-awesome-prints-hall-of-fame/3d-printed-violin-model/?language=en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50d6P_uBBsg
I saw the redditors asking for the unsplit neck and scroll. It is added.
The scale between these files and their originals is 18500%
"(Hole Variation)" files are designed by jonnieZG who wanted a removable end-pin. It is up to your personal preference which method you use.
I've turned off the "work in progress" since everything I can think of is done, but I still might make minor changes. I'll have a longer video in a few monthseventually going into more depth about the violin. Maybe I'll make improvements to this a summer project.
Added a sound-post and bass-board. Used real strings. Bridge was thickened and shrunk to accommodate the neck height. Tail Piece needs thickening. Other pieces have been modified to accommodate stresses or proportions.
Used roughly 1.5 kg of plastic, although I don't know the total weight. Some parts like the sound-post and bridge may need scaling in one direction depending on how your violin turns out. I wish things could be more exact and repeatable, but this isn't a perfect violin. I don't recommend wood-fill, silk, or other irregular plastics. They usually have weaker mechanical properties, although they may still work.
Edit: I had my violin hung on a wall with the strings about 90% loose. The tailpiece snapped sometime in July 2024.
| Bass_Board.stl | 13.4KB | |
| Bottom1.stl | 1.0MB | |
| Bottom2.stl | 1.0MB | |
| Bridge.stl | 1.8MB | |
| BridgeV2.stl | 1.8MB | |
| Chin.Rest.stl | 355.0KB | |
| Fingerboard.stl | 165.2KB | |
| Neck__Scroll_WHOLE.stl | 4.7MB | |
| Pegs.stl | 2.4MB | |
| Scroll.and.Neck.stl | 4.8MB | |
| Side.stl | 92.1KB | |
| Side_Hole_Variation.stl | 135.2KB | |
| Sound_Post_Tool.stl | 13.9KB | |
| Sound_Post_Trimmed.stl | 84.3KB | |
| Sound_Post_Untrimmed.stl | 26.7KB | |
| Tail.End_Pin.stl | 105.3KB | |
| Tail.End_Pin_Hole_Vartiation.stl | 122.5KB | |
| Tail.Piece.stl | 1.2MB | |
| Tail.Piece_Holes.stl | 696.4KB | |
| Top1.stl | 1.9MB | |
| Top2.stl | 1.5MB |
