It's kind of an obvious jump. The necks have been done by CNC rather than people, by and large, since the 1990s, which means you can have a neck that's got the same profile and radius as Clapton's Blackie or Stevie's #1, and crank 'em out by the hundred instead of lucking into them.
But beyond "Hey cool! honeycomb Tele!", you get uniformity. 200 "identical" Strat bodies from 200 different alder trees might give you 200 different tones and resonances, with some sounding better to you than others, but you burn off 200 different Strat bodies out of thermoplastics, they're going to be about as the same as you can get.
Plus, you can get strength-to-weight with internal honeycombing that makes 3D printing not just good for rapid prototyping, but showing the characteristics you want for production.
But beyond "Hey cool! honeycomb Tele!", you get uniformity. 200 "identical" Strat bodies from 200 different alder trees might give you 200 different tones and resonances, with some sounding better to you than others, but you burn off 200 different Strat bodies out of thermoplastics, they're going to be about as the same as you can get.
Plus, you can get strength-to-weight with internal honeycombing that makes 3D printing not just good for rapid prototyping, but showing the characteristics you want for production.
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