Predator themed Carved Guitar
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2013 11:51 am
Hola all - I'm marshalling my carving tools on creating the killing machine that nearly beat Arnold.... One tough motha
One of the biggest challenges that I face in the design process is matching up ideas that I see in the temporal world into images that are a good fit with the shape of a guitar. There are some that are immediate and simple, but those are short lived....
So a google-ing I go - looking up designs that others have come up with. Not that plagiarism is on my mind, far from it - my goal is to stimulate that magic gland in the brain that puts two unmatched things together (3-d Escher drawing hands; I'd always wondered what that would look like in three dimensions....). In this case I was looking for Alien photos that showed detail needed to work on another in progress rig (HR Giger Alien) and came across the Predator, specifically the one from Predators. In that spark of excitement that signals a good idea, I tossed the image around in my skull and settled on the Ibanez Voyager as the proper shape to hold it.
Now you have to actually visualize the design - this process is aided by the 'puter with Photoshop and Visio (a tool I have a ton of experience with). I had to stretch the Voyager dimensions a little to get it to behave with the Pups and the design.
So all glued up and the design transferred....
And hogged out the electronics cavity - now we break out the long knives... 
In the next post
So a google-ing I go - looking up designs that others have come up with. Not that plagiarism is on my mind, far from it - my goal is to stimulate that magic gland in the brain that puts two unmatched things together (3-d Escher drawing hands; I'd always wondered what that would look like in three dimensions....). In this case I was looking for Alien photos that showed detail needed to work on another in progress rig (HR Giger Alien) and came across the Predator, specifically the one from Predators. In that spark of excitement that signals a good idea, I tossed the image around in my skull and settled on the Ibanez Voyager as the proper shape to hold it.
Now you have to actually visualize the design - this process is aided by the 'puter with Photoshop and Visio (a tool I have a ton of experience with). I had to stretch the Voyager dimensions a little to get it to behave with the Pups and the design.
Funny how those thoughts run together