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This is a blue tone STRATOCASTER guitar I want to build, as I have an unfinished Extra Light Alder Warmth STRATOCASTER body lying around for many years. So why not paint a blues theme on it. I always wanted to paint something on the guitar.

So I think that what a better way to do a blues theme as Robert Johnson tribute guitar. The Legend that Robert Johnson sells his souls to the devil in Crossroads. The devil gives his guitar a tuning, a magic touch that with magic power, some super natural power behind his magic hands, to symbolize this, I imitate the gesture of god’s magic touch at the fresco painting by Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, which forms part of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling.

There are not many photos about Robert Johnson, most iconic one is this one use of his album cover. To proficient hand drawing skills on his image and practice first, I started with doing some sketch.

Then I trace the outline  of guitar onto paper, to planing the composition.

time lap video.

 

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And I got new ideas for how to make Robert Johnson walking on crossroads.

Made a 3D model as his image in the movie scene.
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Set the angle as the crossroads on my drawing

 
Flatten it to made 3D painting relief.

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Wow! Looks like you've been drawing and painting a little more than an average builder! Excellent job!

The colourful pickguard with circles drawn around the knobs looked good on the painting. It also looked like you liked it too as it spent more time there than the others.

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The guitar model find online of statue of Robert Johnson on Crossroads , end up too thin for 3D print in around 1/24 and 1/72 scales, so I need build a 3D model of simplified  guitar .

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The knobs are designed symbols mix of crossroads / mythology and Robert Johnson tombstone , also order some flat head black screw for pickguard .

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Flatten it to different sise 3D painting relief , try on pickguard

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Also painting the tree on crossroads

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As coronavirus outbreak that I can’t go China factory to use milling machine to do to made recessed neck use 12 mm screw ferrules sunken for 4mm screw. I find the core Annular Cutter with some mod can do it by hand .
It keep the plane of the ferrule perpendicular to the fastener even with a contoured heel, as opposed to having them meet at an angle as you get with a standard mounting plate.
 


 

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Assembled and Finishing of RobertJohnson Tribute Guitar

Thin Satin Finish
How to made custom  pickguard ?
Wiring.
The guitar model find online of statue of Robert Johnson on Crossroads , end up too thin for 3D print in around 1/24 and 1/72 scales, so I need build a 3D model of simplified  guitar .Flatten it to different size 3D painting relief , try on pickguard
The knobs are designed symbols mix of crossroads / mythology and Robert Johnson tombstone , also order some flat head black screw for pickguard .
As I show in Detail Process video :
 

 

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