kustom guard.

[chuckocaster]

i dumpster dove for a cool piece of vinyl flooring a couple months back, and this is what came of it.





just need to cut the neck pup out, drill the mounting holes, and smooth a couple edges and i'll be golden.

[toobalicious]

ha ha, cool. it looks the business, for sure. mightnt there be some problems associated with the softness of the material? like cracks or bubbling? i gotta say, this is a first for me--- way to think out of the box.
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[honkytonks]

this idea could be taken to some hilarious extremes.

[elicross]

Heh. It's got a real 1970s vibe. How great would it look on a guitar painted 1970s refrigerator green?

[chuckocaster]

Heh. It's got a real 1970s vibe. How great would it look on a guitar painted 1970s refrigerator green?

i'm building a copy of my thinline bisgby esquire, and one of the colors on the list is "avacado green"... i'm thinking about it, first on the list was gibson gold top. i think what i'll do is make some painted test peices and lay the guard on it and see what looks best. i just really dug the pattern, it's really close to what my grandma had in her house.

toobalicious:

considered that, i think what i'll do is laminate the thing to some clear lexan, or something like that. for now i wanted to fab it up and then plan out the rest of the guitar.

i'll post some pics when i make more progress on this project.

thanks for all the kind words.

[frank thomson]

you're wacked!

...but just yesterday i was eyeing a McDonalds food tray...

[FrankJohnson]

Clear plexiglass is good too....you can pu just about anything under it you want!

Papaer, material, paint from underneath...etc......(Photos too)

[stevem]

Thats the same floor tile my mother had on her kitchen floor when we where kids! really I kid you not, if fact I think I see the pasta sause stain on there that we could never get out!

[Kap'n]

Thats the same floor tile my mother had on her kitchen floor when we where kids!

Me too!

I think a nice applianceburst finish would look nice.

[NeoFauve]

i'm building a copy of my thinline bisgby esquire, and one of the colors on the list is "avacado green"...

The Guac-o-Caster!!


I can see it now.