Moo's TLA-1 - My First Build

[andrewdosborne]

Yes, love the ash grain as opposed to solid colour finish. Too nice to hide

[Andy40]

Thats an effing cool effect

[FrankenWashie]

That's a stunning effect. Its unique and it's highlighting the natural features of the wood. Great job Moo and good on you for seeing the potential in it, rather than just slapping some more paint on. Really looking forward to seeing how this finishes up!

[ILRGuitars]

Great effect Moo. Part of the joy of building is the way things evolve organically. You start off with one idea and it grows into something even better.

Look out gentlemen, looks like this one's well and truly bitten by the bug.

[FrankenWashie]

I like the flight of birds, maybe play around with the relative sizes of them? you also mirror them on the lower bout beneath the control cover, or on the upper front quarter, diving down the curve of the scratch plate.
At the end of it, go with what you feel suits you. This axe is your vision and if you do things that you aren't 100% okay with then you'll most likely wish you'd done the other thing.

[Moo]

Look out gentlemen, looks like this one's well and truly bitten by the bug.

Haha unfortunately not something I can afford to do very often on a high-school student budget *sigh* :P

[Moo]

Decided to bite the bullet and buy some water slide decal paper. Bought 3 sheets of laser paper from Ebay. Hopefully all is okay and they work... Here's the link for future reference:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/A4-Waters...W1gjCPinpgXx3g

The plan for the design is something like this. Decided to go for something a bit outside the usual 'design your own brand' kind of idea just for fun


I like how the birds follow the shape of the headstock but a bit concerned that part of the design will under the strings when they (eventually) go on... Any advice?

[FrankenWashie]

Looking at it you are probably going to lose, some of the upper portion under the e, G, B strings, but that will happen with either design. you can try and shift the whole line down a touch but you will run close to the edge of the head with the outstretched wings of the 3rd bird in line (l to r). That may make decal application a fun endeavour. If you've the software to adjust the individual bird images you could play around with that a little, but I'm not sure that it will bring you a net better result for the amount of fiddling you'll need to do.
If nothing else I'd shift the design down a touch and slightly away from the nut. This should bring bird 6 further into relief in the bulb end of the headstock.

[Moo]

Thanks FW

I had a go and was able to separate the birds into different images (just using Word haha) and had a bit of a fiddle. This may be better?


If there's any more feedback it's easy to move the birds now, so fire away

Have figured out how to re-group the pictures as well, so I can re-size etc. when it comes to printing

[FrankenWashie]

I reckon that's an improvement. You may still lose a bit from the uppermost birds, but it highlights the point you made in one of your earlier posts about following the contour of the headstock your two right hand birds will be clear and unobscured as will most of the line.

Again, this should be down to what you are happy with. As far as collating them all again, I've not had much luck with doing that sort of thing outside of using something like Adobe Illustrator or GIMP or such. In word? Really don't know. Depending on what version of windows you run you should be able to save it as a PDF file type for printing, but remember to save a working copy in word first!
The PDF you should then be able to print on your laser printer. You may need some scale adjustments etc required and some plain page test prints first.