Project for a friend

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:48 pm

Good god...

my friend mark wrote: will use the below website to reference the colors I'm thinking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

For the body I'm thinking "Air Force Blue" (the first color on the website). I don't like dark navy blue too much but didn't want a blue that was super light or super bright either.

For the pickguard, how about a bright orange. Check out "Safety Orange" on the website.

For toppers, how about a thin outline of a subtle yellow color (or maybe a yellow with a very light tint of gold to it - but not a straight up gold color). Something like "Lemon" from the website. Maybe go slightly creative with the outline - maybe make it a little blotchy (cloud-like blothcy).

I'm not sure what other info you want. I guess the theme is sort of a somewhat awkward, standout-ish guitar trying to be modest. So maybe headstock, neck and other parts could seem relatively normal.

This will be phenomenally ugly methinks... but he wants what he wants.

I think I'l burst the PG, Orange to yellow to satisfy his request for a yellow outline.
Christ on a crutch, I thought I had bad taste.

CaptainGD · Post by **CaptainGD** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:45 pm

I really like that blue, but Jesus. Next to airplane-landing-orange and yellow/gold?

Can't wait to see it.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:39 pm

SHART BOMB

► Show Spoiler

if you don't want it because of the crack, i understand. pm me for discountage.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:56 am

Hotrod if you have any interest where this is going... it's going to the ex-singer of this band.

http://www.myspace.com/machschau

He's been in numerous other projects but this is the only one with a remaining web presence.

The sad tale of a Baltimore band... Mach Schau! was on the cusp of success. Peaking the interest of Dischord, but Ian kept flaking out of meetings but kept ensuring them he was very very interested in them. They got bigger and bigger and then the same thing happened to them that happens to all great Baltimore band... day jobs and PHDs.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:11 am

i liked that song. very catchy. samples were cool.

i'll never have a cusp-of-deal band, nor a phd. wtf am i doing with my life?

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 4:19 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote: wtf am i doing with my life?

Proposing to the woman you love, buying a home...

Sounds to me like you're living it.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:18 am

dude thanks for reminding me. this buying a house has been more of a dick pull than i imagined. she's all stressed out, wondering where my money goes (i can't tell her about the ring, and she'll soon find out how many amps/guitars i have), and when i get her calmed down, her mom has to wind her back up.

just keep buying my bottom-enders as i hock them, and shit'll start heading toward the same sock...

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:20 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:Good god...

my friend mark wrote: will use the below website to reference the colors I'm thinking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

For the body I'm thinking "Air Force Blue" (the first color on the website). I don't like dark navy blue too much but didn't want a blue that was super light or super bright either.

For the pickguard, how about a bright orange. Check out "Safety Orange" on the website.

For toppers, how about a thin outline of a subtle yellow color (or maybe a yellow with a very light tint of gold to it - but not a straight up gold color). Something like "Lemon" from the website. Maybe go slightly creative with the outline - maybe make it a little blotchy (cloud-like blothcy).

I'm not sure what other info you want. I guess the theme is sort of a somewhat awkward, standout-ish guitar trying to be modest. So maybe headstock, neck and other parts could seem relatively normal.
This will be phenomenally ugly methinks... but he wants what he wants.

I think I'l burst the PG, Orange to yellow to satisfy his request for a yellow outline.
Christ on a crutch, I thought I had bad taste.

So it begins...

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:38 am

WHERE ARE THE SPECIAL AMBER KNOBS BIYATTTTCCCCCCCH

please tell me everything was in there?

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:56 am

Here's a 5 minute photoshop to demonstrate the ugly:

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:57 am

Awesome.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:59 am

DO UMJAMMER LAMMY LP JR

you won't. do 'air force blueburst.'

you really won't.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:02 am

That Um Jammer Lammy yoke's class looking.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:39 am

shooped.

(didn't mean to steal thunder sparky, i started this after he posted the body but i left it open for aaages).

burst PG:

outline:

cloud-like blothcy what the fuck:

final verdict: build yourself an LP jr and send your friend in for a colour-blindness test.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:50 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:WHERE ARE THE SPECIAL AMBER KNOBS BIYATTTTCCCCCCCH

please tell me everything was in there?

Everything came, just no reason to photo the fiddly bits.

thanks for the pics reece/sparky... now I know just how bad it's going to be.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:52 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:now I know just how rad it's going to be.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:30 pm

So I'm not the only person who's ever played Um Jammer Lammy? I LOVE that game! I busted it out a school once, that went over well. "What the hell is this? This is insane!"

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:37 pm

Sparky wrote:So I'm not the only person who's ever played Um Jammer Lammy? I LOVE that game! I busted it out a school once, that went over well. "What the hell is this? This is insane!"

i just spent the last two hours playing unjammer lammy

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:55 am

FINALLY got around to finishing this. Pics to come tomorrow. Gifting to my friend on Saturday. I went with a slightly darker blue (almost LPB) to offset the ugly a bit. It's still atrocious.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:24 am

ha, by coincidence i came across that horrible horrible cloud edged photoshop the other day and wondered what happened to this.

Project for a friend

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