Guitar Photoshop Vectors!
So I really love to make accurate vector mockups (through Photostop) of guitars I'd love built (either by me in the future, or by another lutherie business/custom shop). Recently I got infatuated with a build by Skervesen:
The colors were absolutely amazing, and I wanted to mock up something like it. I used their 4AP body design as a base for my own body design, that ended up more like a hybrid between a ESP Horizon III, Shcecter, and Ibanez. The headstock is also inspired by a Skervesen design, but with melds of Ibanez, ESP, and a touch of Blackmachine. The woods that would be put into this would probably be an Ash or similar tonewood. The neck is FOR SURE Bubinga/Wenge (same one in the above picture). Literally the smexiest wood combo. Might even throw in a thin maple laminate to add a little accent between the Wenge and Bubinga. Electronics/hardware include Barenuckle Pickups, most likely Juggernauts; Sperzel tuning machines, Hipshot bridge, and DEFINITELY Dunlop flush mount straplocks. I love the way the flush straplocks are hidden behind the upper horn (same as above picture), and discreet, not interfering with the shape and flow of the guitar. I wanted to catch a bit of a Luna vibe, which led to the specific color palette I chose (plus I just want a kick-ass looking purple guitar). I made a little NLR-esque logo at the 12th fret marker for the 6 string, and a little something I'm cooking up as perhaps a "flagship" logo for my potential lutherie busniess, on the 7 string.
Without further-adoo, I present my 6 and 7 string variants of the "Royal Eclipse"
6 string is in a 25.5" scale, and the 7 is in a 26.6" scale. I might revise the 7 into a 27" scale, since I already have a 26.5" scale 7 string, and I'd probably use that one for standard/a little below standard tuning, and this one for low as f... tuning (like Drop F and such ). One thing I probably should have gone and revised is any of the body contours. Should have added horn carves (in the well of the horns, i.e. better fret access) and a lower body arm carve.
And yes I vectored each and every piece of the guitar (sans the flamed maple top, or course haha). Most of the hardware was made using actual schematics of the parts for highest scale fidelity. The scale and fretwire placements are also exact, as I used an online resource that calculates fret placement and shows them graphically (FretFind2D, best thing ever).
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