Kevman
not a n00b anymore
First, I haven't been here on Mark's forum in quite some time. It's a cool place that I will log into more frequently.
I recently picked up a Jackson PS-1 which is the low end of their low end Performer series from back in the 90s. I like it. It was black on black and I was able to set it up to play very well. Nice thin shreddy neck (I like both slim and fatty neck profiles) and Jackson J-70 hum which is likely to be replaced and 2 Jackson singles which sound perfectly stratty to me.
Anyway, I decided I wanted a guitar that doesn't look like every other guitar out there. The black on black strat thing has been done to death because it looks cool but it's still a pedestrian finish. I decided I was going to wrap the top with faux carbon fiber vinyl. With the assist from a heat gun it is easy to get a vinyl finish to wrap around what it needs to wrap around on a strat. I attempted to make it look like the guitar has a carbon fiber top and think I came pretty close. You can see that my hand was not so steady in cutting the vinyl along the sides but nobody sees the sides from out in the club.
What do you think of the result?
I recently picked up a Jackson PS-1 which is the low end of their low end Performer series from back in the 90s. I like it. It was black on black and I was able to set it up to play very well. Nice thin shreddy neck (I like both slim and fatty neck profiles) and Jackson J-70 hum which is likely to be replaced and 2 Jackson singles which sound perfectly stratty to me.
Anyway, I decided I wanted a guitar that doesn't look like every other guitar out there. The black on black strat thing has been done to death because it looks cool but it's still a pedestrian finish. I decided I was going to wrap the top with faux carbon fiber vinyl. With the assist from a heat gun it is easy to get a vinyl finish to wrap around what it needs to wrap around on a strat. I attempted to make it look like the guitar has a carbon fiber top and think I came pretty close. You can see that my hand was not so steady in cutting the vinyl along the sides but nobody sees the sides from out in the club.
What do you think of the result?