no i wont be wearing shorts to the day job... but i wont be wearing long sleeved shirts either
i did consider taking the fanned fret along as an example of what i was after but the tattooist was already worried that i might be after a photo perfect recreation of one off my guitars... he is good, but not that good! then you have to worry about the fact multiscale looks weird in real life... would just look like a bad tattoo when all is said and done, i was actually impressed by the fact he payed so much attention to fret spacing on this design
basicaly we wanted a bit of vince ray (hair and bold colours) mixed with a bit of vargas girl (damn sexy without going the lowbrow coop route (which i do quite like)) and a damn nice guitar thrown in the mix...
i gave ben load of ideas and took loads of pictures of pin-ups and guitars with me today because he was worried about getting it right. i needn't have bothered because i rejected all the stuff i had taken as soon as i had seen what he had drawn for me.... the only thing we changed is that he had lifted a big semi hollow gretsch from a vince ray book but i wanted a smaller solid body shape (actually chambered.. we chambered my leg today before starting). it was all abit last minute.. last night my fiancee said i should make it a 335... i didnt want a gibson on my leg but i did know what see meant and a gretsch is a lot more like the sort of stuff i would buy if i didnt make guitars... i actually have quite cheap grungey taste in guitars... cant quite build them that way though
i may have to make this guitar, a cherry red gretsch style single cut... i suppose i should get the DC finished first
