Its Black!

Ok, I said on the last posting that I had started painting the Strat and it still had more work to be done, but I had no pictures of it. Well, the first two statements are still true, but now I have pictures. They are not the best of pictures as I am having dificulties with the auto-focus focusing on something other than what I want it to focus on, but I have pictures none the less. I also took some pictures of what I think I will use for the logo on the headstock.

The first two pictures are just of the body. The first without the pickguard and the second with it.

Next are some pictures with the neck in place (not bolted on, but just in the pocket). The first picture shows it without the tremolo and the output jack and the second show it with them (once again, just placed on the guitar, not screwed in place). If you click the images to enlarge, you will see what I mean by the auto focus is not focusing on what I want it to. I may end up just retaking the pictures and replacing these eventually.

Here are a couple of shots from the ground level at a couple different angles. These actually appear to be fairly well in focus. You can see the nice neck joint and some of the "flame" on the back of the neck in these shots.

The last two pictures are of the RCG logo that I came up with. I basically just took a font from MS Word and used Adobe Illistrator to change the "R" so that it had a cross built in to it. Let me know what you think. The "decal" is overhead transparency film with the RCGuitars printed backwords (in outline form) and then filled in with gold paint and is just floating above the headstock, and will need to be trimmed, adhered to the headstock, and sanded down before I spray the final clear coats on.

Once again, please feel free to give me some good old contructive criticism/feedback. I really am interested in knowing what you think about this project and my guitars. Thanks for checking it out,

Aaron