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It just so happens to be that this guitar has the same color scheme as Stevie Ray Vaugh's guitar. For this time, I'm gonna reproduce his guitar. This is a really difficult challenge so it will be good training for a relic guitar artist.
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What? You used to reject any requests to make relic guitars with artist model specs because it was too much of a hassle to do it. |
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Haha, I have this great philosophy of being able to change my mind when I want to. |
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No, that is not what I call "philosophy." |
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I've already reproduced the "wrong" tremolo rout which was put in by Stevie's guitar tech by mistake. So I can't cancel this project at this point. |
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If it was a mistake to begin with, maybe it's not worth reproducing that part? |
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So the next step is to make a precise wear-pattern template. The problem is, I can't find good high quality resolution pictures of his guitar. |
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Yeah, those pictures probably don't exist.
How many people would want to buy a dirty guitar photo album? |
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So I'm going to make some sketches and draw them to as close to the original as I can. |
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What? How are you going to do that? |
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First I will work with the present picture of the SRV as well as the old picture of his guitar and carefully look at the chipped lacquer patterns and draw a sketch of each photo. For the picture that isn't so clear, I'm going to imagine how the chipped lacquer patterns used to look like and sketch it accordingly. Then I will compare and contrast the sketches of the chipped lacquer patterns and try to make them match or be consistent with each other. I'll make small adjustments to make them match well. |
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Huhhh? |
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Well...
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For instance, lets say the first sketch came out like this:
And the other sketch from the earlier generation looks like this.
So if you overlap these two chipped lacquer patterns together,
you'll be able to get a general idea of how it should look. This red arrow area is okay since I can say the paint of that part came off as time passes by.
However, this area indicates my original sketches were definitely wrong.
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I see. But even though you can see your sketches aren't exactly right, it's really hard to tell which sketch was wrong. |
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Yeah that's right. The only thing I can do is to analyze many photos.
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Analyze.....a dirty guitar....? |
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Why don't you work with something meaningful? |
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