I began playing guitar when I was fourteen years old. My love for it was back and forth until I started producing music when I was eighteen. This was around the same time I purchased this guitar. It has since been with me for eight years and gone everywhere I have. I have written and recorded many songs on it, even lived across continents with it by my side. I have always told myself that if the apocaplypse came and I could take one material object with me; this guitar would be that object, without a doubt.
It was an easy decision for me to choose this for my papercraft project. I knew it would be challenging, but no other ideas came close to competing with this one. I had to do it. In the end, I was quite pleased with how my model in Rhino turned out. However, the papercraft realm was foreign territory for me. I was not sure what to expect or how it would go.
The main focus of my first prototype was to test the strucutal integrity. This played a big part in deciding how I would unfold it and where I would need to reinforce it. I had a lot of success and some failures. This prototype was quite valuable in ironing out the kinks in my design as well as good practice in folding paper.
The biggest issue I faced was the large flat surfaces of the guitar body. For the next version, I would need to build paper ribs to glue inside of the body to provide the surface more support. This was a big concern specifically under the neck, where I needed a solid surface to apply the glue.
I was working on a drawing desk and quickly learned how much glue would pick up old marks on the table. I will definitely need to work on a cleaner surface next time. This prototype got quite messy near the end.
The hardest and messiest part for me was putting the two guitar faces together. I had tabs on both faces and built each one independently making "walls". However, when it came to glueing it together I found it very difficult to get tabs on two different sides stuck together. I kept flipping it around and ended up making a bit more of a mess. It was also next to impossible to have the side panels lined up without being able to access the inner tab. I will need to redesign the unfold to ensure all tabs can be attached to the same face. This will allow me to assemble the structure securely and simply apply the tab-less face to the top.
My final error was missing two tabs on the underbody of the neck. All in all, it was a lot of fun working with paper. There was certainly a lot of valuable lessons in this process. Once I have finalized the structure, I will then be able to add the hardware and detail to the body to really make it come alive.
It was an easy decision for me to choose this for my papercraft project. I knew it would be challenging, but no other ideas came close to competing with this one. I had to do it. In the end, I was quite pleased with how my model in Rhino turned out. However, the papercraft realm was foreign territory for me. I was not sure what to expect or how it would go.
The main focus of my first prototype was to test the strucutal integrity. This played a big part in deciding how I would unfold it and where I would need to reinforce it. I had a lot of success and some failures. This prototype was quite valuable in ironing out the kinks in my design as well as good practice in folding paper.
The biggest issue I faced was the large flat surfaces of the guitar body. For the next version, I would need to build paper ribs to glue inside of the body to provide the surface more support. This was a big concern specifically under the neck, where I needed a solid surface to apply the glue.
I was working on a drawing desk and quickly learned how much glue would pick up old marks on the table. I will definitely need to work on a cleaner surface next time. This prototype got quite messy near the end.
The hardest and messiest part for me was putting the two guitar faces together. I had tabs on both faces and built each one independently making "walls". However, when it came to glueing it together I found it very difficult to get tabs on two different sides stuck together. I kept flipping it around and ended up making a bit more of a mess. It was also next to impossible to have the side panels lined up without being able to access the inner tab. I will need to redesign the unfold to ensure all tabs can be attached to the same face. This will allow me to assemble the structure securely and simply apply the tab-less face to the top.
My final error was missing two tabs on the underbody of the neck. All in all, it was a lot of fun working with paper. There was certainly a lot of valuable lessons in this process. Once I have finalized the structure, I will then be able to add the hardware and detail to the body to really make it come alive.
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