Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

[Inazone]

I started putting together my Stealth parts mutt tonight (sans electronics and trem), and this body is just begging for an "Aliens" graphic of some kind. I've looked at the GMW and Custom Airbrush sites to get a few ideas, but most of the pics are either without pickups and/or trem installed, or too small to make out the details. This guitar has a S/S/H pickup layout and will have a Floyd when completed, which limits the amount of surface area for a cool graphic, but I can't get this idea out of my head.

If you have pics or links, please share `em!

[AlexL]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

Click on "Instruments". There's a couple of 'em.

Custom Airbrush

- E. (A fellow Minnesota boy).

[Inazone]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

Yeah, that was the first place I checked. I emailed Daneen years ago, when she was just starting out, and her price (I forget what it was) seemed very reasonable. However, she has put up any new guitar graphics in quite some time.

[zeegler]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

Goddammit, I was planning on doing the exact same thing myself. [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img]

Oh, well. The world isn't going to end if we both do Giger graphics. I have a few Giger prints, and I've considered sacrificing one to use on my guitar. Does anyone know if it's possible to do it this way? What I mean is sort of laminating the print to the top of the guitar, and shooting clear over it.

Anyone?

[iced_earth]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

Hey zeegler,

I am no expert, but I think that Fender used to use "photo-flame" on some of their guitars. Supposedly they used pictures of nicely flamed tops instead of actual wood. You should be able to use one of your prints on a guitar. I guess it would depend on the body contour.

Best of Luck,

-Mike

[skidd]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

http://www.hrgiger.com/frame.htm

[Inazone]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

I emailed her today at lunch, to get a quote on the pic that is in the lower-left corner on the third page. I had an old quote for it, but that was from January 2000! This will have to be a winter thing due to finances, but if her prices haven't gone through the roof and I can get the remaining hardware I need without selling any internal organs on the black market...

Well, I'll just have to wait to see what she says.

[charvel750]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

Inazone, take notice that Daneen will be adding this one to her archives page really soon: [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]



[ October 21, 2003, 12:55 PM: Message edited by: charvel750 ]

[StuTDavis]

Re: Looking for Giger-style finish pics!

Here's mine, I sorta hack-designed and partly did this one myself, with the help of GMW.

http://hometown.aol.com/stutdavis/myhomepage/photo.html

Giger's fun! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

Stu