I was reminded that Dimarzio makes a ton of strat parts in some pretty bonkers colors. It suddenly made me want to make a Strat with that Fisher Price aesthetic.
Think:
And maybe a bit of:
Unfortunately this is the best I could come up with so far.
I've tried a bunch of other combinations but not sure they hit the mark. Is there a better non-flash builder now that Kisekae is slow AF and doesn't have many options? I'm trying to go for a look that says this is a toy guitar from any distance, I'm finding it really hard to find the right balance of white, red and blue with a bit of yellow that doesn't look overly patriotic.
kingkiller wrote:In terms of the mockups you posted, I like the second one better than the first
I think I do too, but I feel like it probably should have some white. There's gotta be a perfect combination I just haven't found yet. Also, I think it would look more toy like with a maple neck, but the spare strat copy neck I have is rosewood and I don't want to invest too much in this.
Maybe better? I already have a white pickguard so that would help too
I've been wanting to do the same thing with my first guitar, an affinity strat! I'll never get rid of it but I stopped playing it ages ago and a friend asked for the white pickguard and the pickup covers so for years it's just been a bright red body and neck. I've been wanting to just go nuts with rainbow colored plastic parts but I can't find a pickguard template for an early 90s affinity anywhere so I always give up before I get anywhere with it
With both of those Fisher Price toys you posted, the main bulk of the toy is white, and all the additional parts/pieces are colourful. So I think if you want to cop that same aesthetic, you should probably go for a white body (maybe even with a matching headstock, if you can). Red and blue seem to feature more heavily than yellow and green in the toy designs as well, so maybe go for a red pickguard and blue pickup covers (or possibly vice versa) and maybe alternating yellow/green for the knobs and the switch tip. It would be amazing if you could have alternating yellow/green Kluson-style button tuners as well, but I’m guessing those don’t exist.
I would make a mock-up myself, but it’s 2am here haha.
I think I'm going to start by just ordering a bunch of different color knobs and pickup covers from Aliexpress, $15 buys me a full set of red, yellow, blue and green.
I also have a cheap strat copy in a primary red translucent finish with white pickguard, I was planning to just use the neck from this guitar but considering I already have the body I might just test fit a bunch of colors to see how it looks in real life before spending any actual money on a replacement body and pickguard.
This was more the inspiration for the yellow/blue mock up
I actually had that phone when I was little. Not sure how I came upon it, because it wasn't for sale in Eastern Europe. I remember the eyes moving when the wheels were in motion.
Anyway, all those sites need Flash, even the shortscale builder.
Freddy V-C wrote:With both of those Fisher Price toys you posted, the main bulk of the toy is white, and all the additional parts/pieces are colourful. So I think if you want to cop that same aesthetic, you should probably go for a white body (maybe even with a matching headstock, if you can).
Defo this, and also a water slide decal of the telephone's face for the headstock, that'd be AMAZING
Getting echoes of Adrian Belew's Mustang, which I LOVE
The body being mostly white does suit the style better. I honestly think a rosewood fretboard would be fine, but I’m a sucker for rosewood and rosewood-alikes.
