This is gonna sound weird no matter how I say it so I'm just gonna spill it.
I play a number of Live Action Role Play (Hereafter: Larp) games and have bought a cheap acoustic that I'm intending to customise to make it look more fantasy based than a cheap epiphone. Putting things like painted / vinyl vine leaves and leather thonging as well as some words written in Elvish.
It's a cheap guitar that doesn't sound incredible so I'm not bothered about dulling the sound a little but I wondered if anyone had painted / stickered our otherwise an acoustic before and what I'd be best using?
Thanks all. Once I've got this planned out I'll document it for anyone interested.
Here's the donor guitar:
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maybe make some new tuner buttons, carve a pattern into the bridge and do something fun with the inlay. I think we need pictures of your outfit for inspiration
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lose the plate, replace it with something fancier in shape with a pattern
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you could do a lot with just a sharpie
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I'm not a great one for changing tuners if the originals work or can be made to do properly, but those ones are pretty close to the bottom of the barrel…
Something with screwed-on buttons which can be changed for wooden ones that you could carve a design into might be nice, if a fair bit of work.
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although the easy options would be some Grover sta-tites with the slightly fancier button. Nice reliable tuners too
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youWould bones work for tuner knobs?
Any ideas for the head stock. It's got that usual Epi "massive brain" look which I hate... I'd like to attack this in some way
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youPlenty of material to work with at least!
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