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Sweet! Id love to see more game themed guitars and bass. Cant wait to sculpt custom tuning keys on this with bondo. Okay the body is now painted black and designs are on the sides and front as well as base. I have also got an INCREDIBLE clear coat job im working on using multiple layers of Krylon crystal clear glaze. In the past one coat of this gave me a glass polished look. Im on about coat 4 now. I have nothing on the guitar's back or fretboard yet. I was going to put clouds on more blue to mark the frets Anyhoo...pics! ALL pics are pre clear coat so far. http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/4203/pict0141ox9.jpg http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/8813/pict0142cf3.jpg http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/8064/pict0143nz3.jpg http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/4966/pict0144mp2.jpg http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/9275/pict0145nt7.jpg

Whew. Been awhile since I worked on this thing. I had college kick into high gear for awhile so I havent even touched this in awhile. The theme has been decided on. Its going to have a Mario 3 theme based off of something grand achieved only a few times in this game through the use of a game genie. Hammer bros mario inside Kuribo's shoe....WITH A STAR! The boot killed all and allowed you to move on spikes or squash invincible enemies, the hammers killed ALL and the star made me invincible. The guitar will have a black body with a mario's sky color of blue freboard with clouds from mario on it to mark the fret positions. Here is the image thats going on the body . Im adding text to the outside of the body to commemorate the unstoppable nature of this situation. Im also going to sculpt either more clouds onto the tuning keys when they arrive or mario coins onto them. Simply clump bondo on key, smooth top and bottom flat, print and stick on pics of item, file off sides and paint then top coat. Im deciding between "Unstoppable" "What now bitches." "Yeah. What now." "Kuribo DOOM!" Heres pics of the progress so far. Black painting in progress.

Okay played with it some this morning and there is definately metal under there so the maker actually PAINTED OVER THE FRETS. No wonder it felt odd. It scratched off pretty easily though so it was stupid of them to paint these to begin with because the strings wouldve definately stripped these. I intend to start sanding the whole thing after I do some college work later. Ill scan my rough sketches of body designs then too. EDIT: SANDING IS A GO! Itsa lookin good!

Its NOT a lap guitar its simply a hawaiian made backpacker. I got a few decent pics out of my camera (things viewfinder is crushed so its guess work to photograph things. This is the guitar in question. Im beginning to think that the pieces in the fretboard may simply feel wrong because they are painted gold. If the maker airbrushed the completed fretboard black AFTER he had inserted the metal that means he probably just painted them gold again. We'll know for sure after sanding the thing lightly if theres metal under there. The Guitar http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9418/pict0098ue4.jpg The archtop Bridge http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/9513/pict0104al6.jpg The Tuners http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/8498/pict0095ia7.jpg The Fretboard (sideview of the possibly solid piece fretboard) http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/9830/pict0105gt6.jpg The Fretboard (topview ) http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/2102/pict0101wg5.jpg

my digital camera wont even come on anymore. I got another one with a broken screen so its kinda tricky. If its sunny tomorrow Itll take em but with the flash you wont see anything.

Not really certain if its wrong or not. You know how the fretboard usually has little raised pieces of metal dividing it up ...this thing is a a solid piece of wood with raised areas painted metallic. If nothing else Im worried about string wear shaving up that fake metal. May have to brush coat some varnish up there... Yeah im so new to this junk. All ive ever done is fiberglass cast molding for art pieces.

Wow thanks jester that was very informative. I just started taking it apart and found some odd things. The bridge fell right off because it was not mounted with anything to the guitarbody and the neck...well is it NORMAL for the fretboard to only have 15 frets and to have no metal dividing pieces? Looks like I might be replacing the neck entirely at this rate.

This is the projects subject. This thing was 23 dollars on ebay and I was curious...for the record that was AFTER shipping. It just arrived and it certainly...is a ...guitar? Lets see strings are crap. Tuners fail to hold guitar in tune after ONE strum and the thing on the body that elevates the strings (curse you terminology!) is a piece of REALLY light wood...also the string thingy at the bottom is kinda crappy too.(terminal terminology) And NO place for it to use a guitar strap and it REEEEEEEEALLY needs one. So now Im wondering...can it be made into a REAL sounding guitar? I had already planned on disassembly to sand and custom paint the little thing but really...can it happen? What parts in particular would you all suggest for this piece? Go time!

I just won a purple backpacker acoustic from ebay and I plan to refinish it with a custom paint job themed around videogames. Ive put my ideas to a vote on a few other boards and now Im down to just a couple designs and cant decide on them or colors. So heres what I got as my choices now -TETRIS THEME. Blocks descending from fretboard down to a set of blocks at the bottom to form a line. No colors or effects chosen yet. -MARIO BROS 2. Mario diving down fretboard holding phantos key and getting chased all the way down to the body where the locked door is located. Colors would be an exact copy of the lengthier stages where you get chased in mario 2. Background color and effects not chosen. -MISC. A theme was voted popular because it worked for any game. Body is a screenshot of any game's title screen with the fretboard decorated with the name of the game extending across it. Each theme here sounds awesome to me so I cant really decided. Even the last one which is vague sounds good simply because its so versatile and leaves a LOT of room for play on fretboard and body colors and effects. So what do you think I should do. Please specify any colors and/or effects (metal fleck, burn, etc.)you think would look best for any of these. Image of guitar below.

Hi all. Im a bit new to the forums and to finishing guitars. I have however buidt and researched building things for other projects that im doing outside of guitars for awhile now and I didnt know if anyone else had heard of glow powders. In a nutshell these are differently colored powders you can mix into your lacquers and finishes to give whatever youve painted the ability to glow in the dark. They run about $7 an ounce but they recharge in the light and last for roughly ten years with about 5%degradation in glow after that. The possibilities are nice. For example, say you had a dark purple paint job and you grabbed some lacquer. You could then pick up some purple metal fleck to mix into your lacquer AND some purple glow powder (just a couple ounces...not much) mix it all together and lacquer your guitar giving it a highly polished surface that sparkles millions of light points from within. If your worried you can order a 1/4 ounce of powder for near $2 to experiment with on wood with a little fleck and lacquer. Either way the thing would still glow guaranteed. Another idea is mount hollowflash foil to your body and then do the whole tutorial of paint and smear off paint before lacquering to draw holographic shiny effects. Now adda a finish that has glow powder to THAT. Heres a link for those looking for new things to play with. Lemme know what all you come up with because Im eager to play with these things too and ideas are always welcome. http://glowinc.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=3