{"id":94622,"date":"2022-10-18T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/am-hub.dk\/with-3d-printing-the-violin-plays-better-and-more-sustainably\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:54:28","slug":"with-3d-printing-the-violin-plays-better-and-more-sustainably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/am-hub.dk\/en\/with-3d-printing-the-violin-plays-better-and-more-sustainably\/","title":{"rendered":"With 3D printing, the violin plays better and more sustainably"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Danish company Larsen Strings<\/a> produces strings for cellos, violins and violas. In production, the company has a relatively large tooling component where, with traditional manufacturing, a significant amount of material is milled away today\u2014material that simply goes to waste. Larsen Strings therefore wanted to investigate whether 3D printing could be an option, as the technology enables production using only exactly the amount of material required to make the component. <\/p>\n

Larsen Strings tested this opportunity in the 3D printing design optimisation programme, Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM).<\/p>\n

The topology optimisation has resulted in a design with organic shapes and a bone-like structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cToday, the challenges with this component are that, from time to time, we need a new one\u2014and because it is both a material that can be difficult to source and also difficult to machine, we would like to look at other materials where we use smaller quantities,\u201d says Lasse Krogh Johannsen, Product Development Engineer at Larsen Strings.<\/p>\n

In the DfAM project, they printed the component in titanium, which is both light and strong, and in doing so they succeeded in reducing the weight by 43% while increasing the strength by 130%.<\/p>\n

Despite the impressive results, the price unfortunately also ended up increasing by 200%, which is why Larsen Strings is not proceeding with the solution at this stage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Results from programmes with Dansk AM Hub<\/h3>\n