Anyone into guitars?

[comp-spec]

Here's a few pics of some guitars we have done at the shop in the past few months

http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/carbons2k/carbons2k27.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/carbons2k/carbons2k29.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/carbons2k/carbons2k30.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/camo09.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/camo08.jpg

[comp-spec]

http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/phantom09.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/phantom10.jpg
http://www.eacodesigns.com/frankenstein/frank32.jpg
http://www.eacodesigns.com/frankenstein/frank33.jpg

[comp-spec]

http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/mummy/bungo01.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/mummy/bungo02.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics//guitars/dracula/matusko/drac05.jpg
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics//guitars/dracula/matusko/drac01.jpg

[comp-spec]

Lights on
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/ouija05.jpg

lights off
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/guitars/ouija02.jpg

[byndbad914]

wow, really nice work - I like the Ouija board one considering light changes during a live stage event - going dark between songs would be awesome.

Do you do work directly for ESP or is that various customers just wanting paint work done? Or both (given the Kramer). I ask because the Dracula guitar looks to be a Kirk Hammet sig model and those guitars are $$ right out of the hole, let alone custom paint that could potentially devalue the collect-ability of it in the long run. The white one also looks to be a very George Lynch-ish Kamikaze theme as well.

[comp-spec]

wow, really nice work - I like the Ouija board one considering light changes during a live stage event - going dark between songs would be awesome.

Do you do work directly for ESP or is that various customers just wanting paint work done? Or both (given the Kramer). I ask because the Dracula guitar looks to be a Kirk Hammet sig model and those guitars are $$ right out of the hole, let alone custom paint that could potentially devalue the collect-ability of it in the long run. The white one also looks to be a very George Lynch-ish Kamikaze theme as well.

They are all various customers guitars. We have done 1 guitar for ESP Last year.
http://www.competition-specialties.com/pics/lexi07.jpg


The Mummy, Dracula, Frankenstein, and Ouija are all replicas of Kirk Hammett From Metallica's guitars. The Mummy and Franky are real ESPs (about $1500.00 new) the Dracula is on a cheaper LTD KH sig. and the Ouija is just a random body. As for devaluing, Actually because of the popularity of Metallica, It makes the guitars worth quite alot more.
The Kamikaze 1 is a slight variant of the George Lynch's Kamikaze, that is a real ESP body with a custom neck.

[awr68]

Killer work!! :thumbsup:

[jbutlr]

Looks like I am not alone in my love of ESP guitars! Nice work.

[jski67]

Here's mine!

A Suhr Standard and a Paul Reed Smith Swamp Ash Special. I used to have a couple other PRS's, but the Suhr's have won me over. Both are fantastic guitars...way nicer than my meager talent deserves.

Nice paint work on the ESP's!

Jason

http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u358/jski59/web-1.jpg

http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u358/jski59/sas-1.jpg

[novanutcase]

Beautiful paint work.

I'm old school. I have a Jerry Jones Silvertone guitar and a '82 Gibson Les Paul standard.

John

[evilzee28]

Here's a pic of my pool cue & my Ibanez bass guitar. The guitar was painted with a black base, with a purple flip flop skull & flames added. The pool cue has a black base with blue flip flop & black & white check with flames, cheers....Nige


prior to flatting & polishing

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/evilzee28/miscellaneous/DSCF1312.jpg


finished article


http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/evilzee28/miscellaneous/DSCF1320.jpg


http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff121/evilzee28/miscellaneous/poolcue001.jpg

[69Nova]

Cool work.

I have a few guitars..

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d116/AndrewPetty/201_0246.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d116/AndrewPetty/201_0253.jpg

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d116/AndrewPetty/201_0248.jpg

[tones2SS]

VERY COOL PETE!!:cheers:
Someone like ESP's!!! :_paranoid I think I may have spied a George Lynch model ESP in there??
I have a black Gibson Explorer that I ordered from Gibson back in like '86/'87?? I also have an Ibanez RX 7-string guitar. I'm actually thinking about selling the Ibanez guitar.

[E.rodz]

:thumbsup: here is a couple picts. of my sons 1st guitar.with kind of a cool story behind it . I told him that i had a friends guitar that he wanted painted and needed his help on a design I figured he would just say it would just pick a random color. what he thought would look cool just blew my mind. he came up with the idea of painting it black then it needed a hippie symbol on it if he was into rock and roll .I said whats a hippie symbol. so he draws me a peace symbol complete with hot rod flames and said they had to wrap in and out of the peace symbol because any one thats into guitars must like hot rods to. but the flames had to be real fire style flames like mike lavallee paints only they would look better if they were blue and purple. I asked what we should do about the pick gaurd he looked around grabed a scrap piece of aluminum and said maybe we should make one out of this and make the swrills on it. I just stood there thinking holly #$%@.i did not realize that he was absorbing so much from random time in the garage. keep in mind he is eight years old. he continued to help make all the part for it and picked out some cool knobs for it and was completely shocked when he opened the present on his birthday. I hope this becomes his thing but if he just wants to help me design hot rods and guitars that would be ok with me. keep on rockin and cool thread. http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu160/erodz/033.jpg

[tones2SS]

Just started playing again a couple of moths ago. Unemployment and winter will drive you crazy sometimes!! lollll....:faint:
Here are a couple of my guitars. I run these through a Fender ProSonic amp, which out of production now and was sort of a "custom shop" design amp that Fender experimented with back some years ago. Sounds killer with the clean channel and the distortion just flat out KICKS MUCHO ASS!! It's got 2 gain channels and is a tube amp, (rectifier. up there with Mesa/Boogie and so forth.) I do not run any effects/distortion pedals. Although I do run a BOSS Noise Gate every once in a while.(I am really thinking about trading in the Ibanez 7 string for an ESP LTD MH-1000 guitar.):_paranoid

[ItDoRun]

Gibson SG here.

[tones2SS]

Gibson SG here.

Very nice.:thumbsup:
What color?

[sniper]

I am not much of a music person myself. I painted a few guitars with some candies.

Not that it's anything special, BUT I have seen in person a genuine 1976 Jerry Garcia Travis Bean. Beautiful to say the least. Some wickedly cool Zemaiti guitars. And some various HOT late 50's Gibson Les pauls.

A gentleman I did some work for is a vintage dealer and showed me some Cool, cool stuff.

[tones2SS]

I am not much of a music person myself. I painted a few guitars with some candies.

Not that it's anything special, BUT I have seen in person a genuine 1976 Jerry Garcia Travis Bean. Beautiful to say the least. Some wickedly cool Zemaiti guitars. And some various HOT late 50's Gibson Les pauls.

A gentleman I did some work for is a vintage dealer and showed me some Cool, cool stuff.

I bet those 50's Gibson's Les Paul's are worth some serious coin!!:wow:
Are they in good condition?

[ItDoRun]

Very nice.:thumbsup:
What color?

Cherry.

[sniper]

I bet those 50's Gibson's Les Paul's are worth some serious coin!!:wow:
Are they in good condition?

Mint. While he has many, the ones I mentioned are worth between $250,000 and $600,000. I think I laid eyes on one they had that was a plain looking pearl white guitar. The name of it escapes me, but I believe it was worth near or more than a cool million.

While the guitars didn't mean much to me personally, but it was cool to touch some cool pieces of history and iconic music figures.
I've also repaired some of their old tube amps. Things of that nature.

[door-ajar]

Here's mine an ernie ball music man axis super sport ,that's one of the reasons i bought "super sport" i used have alot of guitars but i destroyed them in my eddie van halen phase!

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx207/door-ajar/cid_226.jpg

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx207/door-ajar/cid_614.jpg

[tones2SS]

Mint. While he has many, the ones I mentioned are worth between $250,000 and $600,000. I think I laid eyes on one they had that was a plain looking pearl white guitar. The name of it escapes me, but I believe it was worth near or more than a cool million.

While the guitars didn't mean much to me personally, but it was cool to touch some cool pieces of history and iconic music figures.
I've also repaired some of their old tube amps. Things of that nature.

WOW!!
Very cool!:thumbsup:

[Northeast Rod Run]

I bet those 50's Gibson's Les Paul's are worth some serious coin!!:wow:
Are they in good condition?a friend of mine had a bunch of flametop Les Paul's and sometime back around '04 -'06 he sold them and bought himself a new Z06. not a bad tradeoff getting rid of some of your guitars and picking up a nice car in the process

[tones2SS]

a friend of mine had a bunch of flametop Les Paul's and sometime back around '04 -'06 he sold them and bought himself a new Z06. not a bad tradeoff getting rid of some of your guitars and picking up a nice car in the process

Yeah, that's a good deal!!:cheers: