Fender’s New 3-D Printed Guitar

Is this the future of the electric guitar? If you haven’t heard of it yet, 3-D printing seems like something straight out of science fiction. But its real, its here, and Fender–one of the most iconic and well respected institutions in the music business–is currently developing two prototypes.

So what is 3-D printing?  Well, it’s the process of making a physical object from a three-dimensional digital model, typically by laying down many successive thin layers of a material.

Click on the video below to watch Fender’s unique 3-D printed guitar prototypes in action.