personalised guitars

[rager]

should you ruin your guitar by personalising it?

[RememberThisName]

YES! ruin your guitar!.....

[Solotower]

Well, if you believe it is ruining it to personalise it, then there's really no question, is there?

[rager]

i thought about covering mine in duct tape like the offspring's Noodles. what about anyone else

[RememberThisName]

Thats not personalising really? your just copying.

[Solotower]

I've been considering putting a pretty cool fake tatoo on mine, but it's hard to find a good place to put it where it will fit and won't get worn off too quickly.

[Idle Mind]

I don't intend to sell any of my guitars anyway, so I don't consider that a problem, but for instance I wouldn't personalise my Jackson, cos it looks way too nice as it is. But then my first ever guitar which was crap I totally ripped apart, repainted, put some designs on and stuff then put back together again.

[Paul]

im planning on 'personalising' my steinberger, gonna see about new buckers and a custom scratch plate with some chinese or korean or japanese, haven't decided which yet though

[rager]

i think the idea of getting new parts is ok, paint job maybe...................hacksaw? o.k only kidding but i've seen it done!!

[Paul]

i'd never chop up a guitar...again, it all ended very badly, mainly cause i didnt know what i was doing but it's not something to be taken lightly.

[ILikeTheColdSide]

I like what Tom Morello does, writing a phrase on his guitars, like "Arm the Homeless" and "Soul Power". Wouldn't do it to one of mine though.

[Paul]

don't suppose anyone knows where i could get a custom scratch plate in the uk?

[artificial infection]

^^
music shops, one near me sells quite a few, but he seels mainly the fender scratch plates. Well i kinda stuck stickers on my fender, sometimes i wish i never did it, but sometimes i think..meh, what the heck..looks alright. I like slash satrianis scratch plate though, now that is personalised :thumb:

[Slash Satriani]

well if ur a leftie dont even bother looking for good scratch plates, i just started drawing on mine one day and it turned out fine, + i dont plan on selling it either and i put a humbucker in it... so i think u shud personalise it :thumb: i think everyone seen this now!!

[Paul]

yeah slash satriani thats a bloody great job, thing is my guitar isn't a squier or anything like that, what im wanting done would mean i'd need someone to print onto it or maybe enscribe, and i very much doubt my local shop can help me with it, that guy that owns it is a dumbass

[Slash Satriani]

jus thinkin there, only prob is my gf name is on it, well were not goin out no more!! but still what can ya do!

if u wana print on it, make a screen print and get soime spraypaint, what guitar is it?

[Paul]

its a white steinberger gp-2r http://www.musicyo.com/product_specs.asp?pf_id=527
see where the steinberger logo is on the scratch plate? well thats where i'd want to have the chinese\korean\japanese writing

[Slash Satriani]

well i duno if you'll find a scratch plate for that but it looks like you'd ne to get the design u want and go over it,

a screen print wud work though for that but it might bed arkward to do...

[Paul]

well, im fairly sure i could get a plate made to measure but i dunno how much that would cost here in the uk, i know ed roman sells the scratch plates though, might check how much he sells them for

[artificial infection]

hmmm he's supposed to be a dodgey dealer or sutmhing like that...not sure..

[Slash Satriani]

yea he has everything its jus a pain in the *** gettin stuff like that on the net but im it's prob fine....

[Paul]

i dont like ed roman but if the fat **** can get me a plain white plate that will fit im not gonna moan

[artificial infection]

^^^
:lol: well just warning you!

[when_im_gone]

its ur guitar plus why are you gonna sell ur guitar? I want to personalize mine but im thinkin hard because my persnalization is gonna be permenent

[Mayonnaise]

a screen print wud work though for that but it might bed arkward to do...

itd work if you used acrylic paint- it's not actually hard to do though isnt screen printing- I do it at college so I guess I have an advantage- but you could go to your nearest college if they have an art block and ask them theyll probably let you

[SKiLLeDcs]

I know a way how to get designs on ur guitar body that look really cool. I'll post it here really soon.

[Paul]

this had better be good

[SKiLLeDcs]

Yea it looks cool, its not my idea but it looked like a cool idea to get pictures and stuff printed on your body.

[mynamesucks]

http://www.wdmusicproducts.co.uk/

Papa Shank there are loads off scratch plates here you might find one here

Good Luck either way :thumb:

[mynamesucks]

Im building a guitar at the moment, does any body have ideas for a paint job. I was thinking of doing a black to red fade or a black body with blue and white lightning.
What do you think

[Phunphone]

^^^^
Black body with random blue and white "spits" on it, that'd be cool.

I was thinking how can you personalise a PRS without ruining it. I guess you just can't.

[mynamesucks]

what do you mean by spits?

[Phunphone]

:) I knew it! I knew I used the wrong word :upset:

All right, I'll try to explain it. I thought that you could paint it black, and then, blue and white over black which would look like you've just spitted blue and white paint on the guitar, or threw blue and white paint, so that it looks like a random paint job. If done properly, it'd look cool. So it's a non- symmertical paint job.

[Paul]

just checked and ed roman aint got what i want, fat bastard, so im going to have to get a blank scratch plate from somewhere and then ensribe it somehow

[mynamesucks]

phunphone i now understand mani from the stone roses has a bass like that it kicks *** :thumb:

[Phunphone]

Hmm... you got any pics of that bass?

[Insomniac20k]

Look at my avatar :D

[musicforthemasses]

def customize. im never seelin annnyyy of my guitars
btww satriani, how did u do that to ur pickguard?!?! id love to knw

[guitar, bass, sax]

http://www.pickguards.com/
Take off your pickguard, send them a tracing of yours, and they'll make you a custom one to fit. Or you could go to Warmoth.com and buy a blank pickguard sheet and do it yourself.

[ColeW]

Is there any kind of tape that I could put on my guitar and not have it leave a ton of residue or mess up the paint job? I see a lot of people who have black electric tape on theirs, so I figured I could lay down the easy to remove tape and then put a stick or something on top of that.

[Mayonnaise]

Do you mean to cover the guitar in it and leave the tape on or cover a certain bit with tape paint and then take it off so that the bit you dont want painting remains unpainted?

[rager]

if he/she means they want something for masking then use airbrush masking film, if they want to keep the tape on there then use vinyl, this looks professional and (like on the fender mustangs) or if you want to completely cover the guitar why not use silver duct tape, I did! so far there isn't any residue when you take it off but over time i bet it will.

[dkpinhead]

I would change the pickups and hardware, but I doubt I would do any major stuff to it.

I wouldn't mind buying a cheap guitar to make it into something really wierd, but that would probably be a waste of money.

[shadow_stalker]

as long as it isnt an expensive guitar i wouldnt have a problem peronalising it but if it was expensive and i was rich then i would personalise it

[madcuttlefish]

:) I knew it! I knew I used the wrong word :upset:

All right, I'll try to explain it. I thought that you could paint it black, and then, blue and white over black which would look like you've just spitted blue and white paint on the guitar, or threw blue and white paint, so that it looks like a random paint job. If done properly, it'd look cool. So it's a non- symmertical paint job.

Do you mean some sort of splatter effect? Like someone has flicked paint from a paint brush over it?

[Detuned0]

I think if you buy a guitar and you don't plan on keeping it for a long time then you shouldn't customize it. But if it is a good guitar and you feel like cutomizing it and you are going to keep it then do it.

[Phunphone]

Do you mean some sort of splatter effect? Like someone has flicked paint from a paint brush over it?

Yeah, neatly :D

[RememberThisName]

Soo, after reading the thread i though Fck it let me fck up a guitar ....so i did :)

so i sprayed it silver plasterd loads of stickers on it then wrote on it :D

and then my mum said why did you say do that and i was like coz its rock n roll, and she told me off :(
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[Paul]

mums always know best

[RememberThisName]

lol, i know it sucks but i dont care!

[Paul]

'cause it's rock and roll! :D

[RememberThisName]

yeah i like that.. i might get that tattooed across my back.

[bigsoloist]

A local band that i'm quite close friends with are called Funk Ya Mum and have a song called "The Bishop" and their guitarist has written "the bishop" on the top part of the front of his squier strat

-ash

[musicforthemasses]

http://www.pickguards.com/
Take off your pickguard, send them a tracing of yours, and they'll make you a custom one to fit. Or you could go to Warmoth.com and buy a blank pickguard sheet and do it yourself.

do what myself? will magic marker actually stick to it lol. or is there some paint i can buy that will be durable enuff. i did find some nice ones at pickguard.com but im having trouble choose...

[overturned]

Soo, after reading the thread i though Fck it let me fck up a guitar ....so i did

so i sprayed it silver plasterd loads of stickers on it then wrote on it

and then my mum said why did you say do that and i was like coz its rock n roll, and she told me off

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i really like that apart from the plain white pickgaurd, if you've got some stickers left stick em on it or better berak the plate in half and screw it back on.

[RememberThisName]

i was going to order one from pickguard.com but i like the idea of breaking it! thank you

[eiseyrokker]

i figured my cheapass Ibanez GAX70 wasnt gonna even have a resale value, so i figured what the hell, got some model paint, and did it myself.

also, i threw in a pic of the guitar that i built from warmoth parts. turned out beautifllly. never seen a les paul that looked this good. its been finished since tat pic, and im currently painting the headstock in prep for putting my logo on.

[rager]

great job on the ibanez, not sure about the bottle tops though. HECK! who am i to talk i wrote SOUP POWER on my axe with permanent marker.

[Goggs]

don't suppose anyone knows where i could get a custom scratch plate in the uk?

http://www.gsrguitars.co.uk

They'll do pretty much anything you want, for pickguards just click 'other options' only £30, browse thorugh their site and tell us what you think.

[rager]

why not make a custom plate yourself, you can get pickguard plastic at the brandoni site,
http://www.brandoniguitars.co.uk/

[Invisible100]

It depends what you mean by "personalising"....

Remember, this can go from a little sticker or something on the back of the guitar where nobody can see it to a full new paint/hacksaw job.
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It clearly affects the resale value of a guitar. No matter how good the guitar is, most people tend not to want to buy something with other people's stickers/doodles/re-spray jobs on them....

[craigmac]

My guitar has phil emanuel's signature on it. It'll have Tommy's soon too.

ciao

[Invisible100]

well, im fairly sure i could get a plate made to measure but i dunno how much that would cost here in the uk, i know ed roman sells the scratch plates though, might check how much he sells them for

Check this place out - http://www.universaljems.com/shop.htm.

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