Guitar Design Ideas

There is no end in designs’ creativity, and that’s what I’m talking about when we want to redesign our guitar layout. you can get your own or get inspired by your favorite virtuoso. As part of my guitar learning project surely I wanna take a shot about this.

actually this is not easy for me because I have terrible drawing, so i choose to be inspired by the famous Frankenstrat, the Eddie Van Halen’s guitar. As you know that Frankenstrat is an idealism. it is not only about the stripe and colors, but Frankenstrat is an innovative instrument which lead guitar to something new like the floating bridge and brown sound. A copy of Frankenstrat is at the National Museum of American History now, as part of American music history and inspiration.

Frankenstrat
Eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat

well, i won’t go that far for a whole Frankenstrat thing right now. what I’m gonna do is take the the colors and stripes onto my Fernandes guitar, not with paint, but with stickers ( I’d love to paint, but it will be only a big mess).

first, I bought the stickers. since my guitar is black and i love sunset colors, i got glitter yellow, orange and silver stickers.

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tools and stickers for Guitar Design Ideas

tools i needed were screwdrivers, scissors, cutter, steel ruler and a hair dryer. I used screwdriver to put off anything necessary such like bridge and pickups holder. I cut the yellow stickers into 2 cm width and 1 cm width for silver and orange stickers.

guitar design ideas
Guitar Design Ideas

the fun thing about Frankenstrat design is, it’s only a random stripes and colors 😀 so i put them randomly. i put a silver lining on my Fernandes Guitar Edge first, next was the yellow then the orange sticker.

um.. the hair dryer? it is the best tool I have to apply the stickers on bend and curves so i got minimum folded stickers on my guitar. simply blow the stickers with hair dryer’s hot air and bend it as you like. you need to be careful in bending the stickers, while i didn’t. haha my fault.

so where’s the result? here i share you. pretty much satisfying for me, since it is my own work ^_^

got interested on Frankenstrat guitar design yet?

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Guitar Design Inspired By Frankenstrat Ideas

Assembling an Electric Guitar – neck and body

yeah, i should put more details on the blog post title but actually i want to show you how easy assembling guitar can be. what i got here was a separated squier telecaster neck and pre-wired telecaster body. the only thing you need here is one screwdriver and you can put them into one piece of beautiful telecaster.

squier telecaster
Assembling an Electric Guitar – neck and body

just put them together and,

squier telecaster

put the plate and the screw, then tighten them X way.

squier telecaster

once it is done, put the strings

squier telecaster

now, the last thing you need to do is take the last picture of your work and you can admire it while you’re playing it

squier telecaster

okay… what so special about this? nothing, yes, NOTHING

all i want to say is, guitars can be so simple without decreasing our respects to this holy grail. and wonderful thing about telecaster is. unlike other set-neck guitars, telecaster can be so great since you can get its parts separately, highly customized as your wishes in such an easy way… this guitar is so popular yet it still give its best contributions to every guitarists style of playing.

enjoy telecasters!