Pacific Northwest Strat Burn

[Great Ape]

I've become really intrigued by the woodburning thing, so while I'm waiting on the imminent delivery of the neck for the 'eagle guitar', i've started another, though in a completely different style. My idea was for a Pacific Northwest Indian-style design on a sort of driftwood-feeling body.
Although involving less detail than the other project, I found it more difficult simply because the style is so alien to me...but, gotta take the leap, right? (I gotta tell ya--drawing on paper is a whole lot cheaper than drawing on guitars!). The body is lightly flamed maple on chambered swamp ash...

 

[Great Ape]

And....

 

[Updown]

Someones got a new hobbie  :icon_biggrin:

Always watching with total admiration  :glasses9:

:blob7:  I approve !!

 

[Great Ape]

Someones got a new hobbie  :icon_biggrin:

Always watching with total admiration  :glasses9:

:blob7:  I approve !!

And I do it all for your responses!!! :laughing7:

 

[rapfohl09]

I love you work, I am going to have to have you make one for me! I have wanted for a long time to have a matte white guitar with some graphic art on it.

Now I can have the best of both worlds, nice wood with a sweet burned-in graphic art!!

 

[TroubledTreble]

That style of artwork is known as Haida. First nations art is beautiful.

I can appreciate the commitment it takes to commit something to wood. Looks great!

 

[Great Ape]

Here's the body dyed and colored (all Trans-Tint dyes w/alcohol). By the way, I had a near disaster when I tried to add a coat of sealer between the amber and burgundy applications; sealer rips right through the dye, and smears it. Fortunately, there was a coat of sealer already on the body, and I snapped out of my state of shock quickly enough to wipe off the smear before
it could sink in at all. I would have preferred a slightly lighter, more grey (driftwoody) color, but this is what I've got, sort of a silver-brown, which I alternately think of as either the ugliest guitar color ever, or something quite unique...finished with 3 very thin Tru-Oil applications. 

 

[Great Ape]

I love you work, I am going to have to have you make one for me! I have wanted for a long time to have a matte white guitar with some graphic art on it.

Now I can have the best of both worlds, nice wood with a sweet burned-in graphic art!!

If you, or anyone else, is serious about a woodburned project, send me a PM and we can discuss it...it's gonna be a long winter-lotsa time for projects, and I believe I can see a doubleneck in my future...

 

[Alfang]

That art looks like it was drawn for my favorite NW Tribe, Seattle SeaHawks  :hello2:

 

[Great Ape]

L-O-L :laughing7:

 

[TonyFlyingSquirrel]

I think that's awesome!!!

 

[DangerousR6]

That's pretty damned awesome Greg... :icon_thumright:

 

[Cagey]

That's incredible. I'm envious. I'd like some of that talent applied to one of my guitars, but I can't imagine what to put on it.

 

[DangerousR6]

That's incredible. I'm envious. I'd like some of that talent applied to one of my guitars, but I can't imagine what to put on it.

:laughing7:

 

[Great Ape]

That's incredible. I'm envious. I'd like some of that talent applied to one of my guitars, but I can't imagine what to put on it.

:laughing7:

Using transparent dyes, that just might work....

 

[Cagey]

I'm embarrassed to say... I like it.

 

[Great Ape]

And completed....(See Strat Gallery for full description).

 

[Great Ape]

And the back...

 

[ThePhilosopher]

That's some great work.

 

[tylereot]

That is just unbelievable.  I think your career just took a left turn.
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