Designing a pick-guard for a custom guitar

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Designing a pick-guard for a custom guitar


I'm using Cheetah to visualize a custom pickguard for a Telecaster type guitar I'm building.

I bought a body and neck from Warmoth, but I want to
show more of the quilted maple top than the standard PG.

I mocked up a Tele body and then using a spline, polyplane and shell
modifier for the PG, I was able to get a good Idea how it will look.

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ZooHead said:

I'm using Cheetah to visualize a custom pickguard for a Telecaster type guitar I'm building.

I bought a body and neck from Warmoth, but I want to
show more of the quilted maple top than the standard PG.

I mocked up a Tele body and then using a spline, polyplane and shell
modifier for the PG, I was able to get a good Idea how it will look.

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Nice mod. 3D definitely helps visual stuff like this more easily.
 
Swizl said:
Nice mod. 3D definitely helps visual stuff like this more easily.
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pellepiano said:
That looks very nice. Im a Telecaster fan too.
Cheetah is good for so many different things.
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Thanks guys, I've been thinking about modeling some guitars for a while.
Now that I'm putting a guitar together, it seemed like a good opportunity.

The Telecaster is an historic instrument. It evolved from a simple test platform that
Leo Fender created, to test the magnetic pickups he was making for acoustic instruments,
into the one of the most widely varied and customized guitars in the world.

Musicians would ask to borrow Leo's prototype for gigs, so he knew he had something special.

He originally named it the Esquire, but changed it to the Broadcaster.
Gretsch already had that name so for a short time they had to snip off
the name from the Fender decal and now we call those Nocaster's.

I think they where making the Stratocaster by
then so they came up with Telecaster.

Here I added some Strat features such as forearm relief
and a tummy cut to mirror the custom body I have.

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Yummie. Here in Sweden we have a mint condition Broadcaster at a huge Guitar Museum with the guitar collection of two fanatic brothers =)
 
ZooHead said:

I'm using Cheetah to visualize a custom pickguard for a Telecaster type guitar I'm building.

I bought a body and neck from Warmoth, but I want to
show more of the quilted maple top than the standard PG.

I mocked up a Tele body and then using a spline, polyplane and shell
modifier for the PG, I was able to get a good Idea how it will look.

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Great job 'ZOO'...!!! (as always) :icon_thumbup:
Where did you get the 'blueprint'?
 
pellepiano said:
Yummie. Here in Sweden we have a mint condition Broadcaster at a huge Guitar Museum with the guitar collection of two fanatic brothers =)
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very cool, it's an obsession limited only by how much money is available to burn.

Do they have one of Yngwie Malmsteen's
Strats, with the scalloped fingerboard?

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Here are the pics of the actual body.

The Swap Ash body and quilted Maple top are each one piece.
Usually they are both two pieces so this one is unique.

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frank beckmann said:
Beautiful. Interesting grain built. Is it sandwiched or massive - don´t see any neck adjustment feature.

Cheers
Frank
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One piece neck, separate fingerboard.

It's got a new side adjust mechanism.

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frank beckmann said:
Ah cool - that´s new to me. Thanks for sharing. ;)

Cheers
Frank
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Invented by Gotoh, Warmoth is the first to try it
in all there modern construction type necks.

It's for fine adjustments, coarse adjustments are still done on the heel end.

The body is weight reduced/chambered like this.
This is great for me, having chronic shoulder problems.

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