Travel Ukulele that actually plays by jiayin940507

jiayin940507

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X1 Carbon

P1S

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X1E

V1.1 Bug fixes and small improvements

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6.8 h

3 plates

5.0(1)

0.2mm layer, 2 walls, 50% infill，8 walls

Designer

7.4 h

3 plates

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Description

Hello Guys.

This is a travel ukulele I made based on Circuits and Strings's design. There is a template (for wood working) available on his website. However he didn't provided exact dimenation for it, so I have to do some improvise of my own so that it can be easily 3d-printed on a 256*256mm plate.

Important: print it with at least 50% infill. The tension of the strings can deform the parts if they are not strong enough.

Things you need beside the 3d-printed parts:

ukulele strings
some 1.75mm filament
4 ukulele tuning pegs
a 246.5mm D=8mm rod(cut from a 300mm carbon fiber rod)
a 90mm D=8mm rod (carbon fiber or steel will do)
a 6.35 mm endpin jack (optional)
a piezo under sattel pickup (optional)
2 guitar strap buttons

A BOM and a build guide can be found down below. Original .stl and .step files are also included if you want to modify it yourself.

I hope you will enjoy building and playing it.

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Update V1.1:

fixed a support error that may cause connector part failure. (thanks! @JakeRad)
comfort improvement: added fillet to upper face of the main body to match the fillet of the fingerboard.
added mounting holes for tuning peg screws at 21mm distance.
added set holes for the ukulele strings so that the knots won't scratch your skin.

Notice:

the prior @dlovelady in the comment mentioned shape problem of the fingerboard is not yet solved, as I'm still working on it. However this problem have no impact on function and performance.
the item links provided in the BOM are for examples only, similar products will also work.
Please use the newer V1.1 print setting from now on.

Documentation (2)

Bill of Materials (1)

BOM_2b91acfc-4dd7-40c7-aa0a-dba46a1a8847.xlsx

Assembly Guide (1)

Build Guide_7cda27c4-f5ae-4269-bb82-9e65310e221c.pdf

Comment & Rating (5)

@dlovelady

Man, I love this design. Just one shortcoming for my big fingers... I wonder if you'd entertain the idea of widening that neck about 10MM at the nut (more's better)? I have difficulty with anything below 32mm G to A. But what a great design! Kudos! One other thing I might recommend, is to split the neck about 5MM from the frets, so that the frets themselves could be printed, as was done with this design: https://www.printables.com/model/140353-travel-ukulele. Not to detract from yours - I like yours better - but this would be a simpler build, I'd think. In my build, I filled in the dots, taking advantage of the AMS for color, and added a logo to the neck. I also made the tuner peg holes 10MM to match what I already had in-house. In the US Amazon site, I couldn't find the same items you linked.

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The designer has replied

@jiayin940507

Hello there, I am thrilled that you made it and liked this ukulele. And thanks for the nice and helpful comment. It's a wonderful idea to fill in the dots. For me I'm not willing to spend those poop on multicolor printing, so I designed it like so : D. But man it does look much better with the dots printed together... About your questions, you are perfect on the point about the neck, I also find it to be a little bit too narrow. I used this width based on my already existing E-Ukulele, but as you can see, somehow it doesn't fit here. I will definitely fix this. About splitting the neck, I checked out the link you kindly provided, but I'm not very sure what you mean, it will be very helpful if you could clarify your suggestion and show me some more details. I would love to improve it. I would post a version 2 as soon as possible. Sadly I don't have so much time for it so you can expect it to be like a week or so. Thanks again for the comment and suggestions.

@JakeRad

Replying to @jiayin940507 :

Looking forward to the update!! I’m printing it now but i’ll print the next version too!

@MarcoObice

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V1.1 Bug fixes and small improvements

Great Job!!!!

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The designer has replied

@jiayin940507

Hi there, thanks a lot for your rating! The frets are normal 1.75mm filament, cut to length and superglued on the body. Further instructions can be found in the build guide pdf document I provided. Please also tell me how can I (in your opinion) get a 5 star rating.

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