Guitar Skins?
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Masta' C
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NegativeEase
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Wouldn't sub urban camo be like a shopping cart or soccer ball pattern - not foliage?
Artie
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I'm guessing that the advantage that the "skin" houses have is color variety. I had the same idea, but couldn't find any of the other colors I was looking for at Jo-Anne's etc. And, I think this whole idea lends itself to "cheap", yet still decent, guitars. One of my flea-market Johnson Strat's is Hot-Pink, with a small crack in the body. I either paid $25 or $35 for it years ago. But the neck and playability are fine. No different than my MIM Fender.
I thought it would be fun to go the "psychedelic" route, with this skin.
You can get a richness of color that is hard with paint, much less the detail. You can get a photograph without the paint looking like a 70's airbrushed panel van. I can see an extension of this, like the 'foto-flame' Fender used to do. Have very detailed designs wrapped and then sprayed clear.
Masta' C
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This is a few years old, but the results still came out pretty dang nice (check it out at the end)! I think the printing and materials have only gotten better.
Careful if you see this imposter for sale, though...
Yeah, that is what I am talking about. It is far from a DIY thing, but I can see companies selling less expensive imports like this and the look will rival those custom painted Charvels I used to drool over. Most people looking for guitars like that, in that price range, are not going to care how you achieve the finish, much less anyone in the audience.
NegativeEase
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Why go that route when i can make you a custom guitar...?
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I bet ole' Bluesman Bonamassa has at least 50 skins available.....all with his sweet initials somewhere on them
rammer69
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The Inzane guy makes it look easy , i am sure i wouldn't have the same results, i have a yellow Se Santana, that i would like wrapped , no offence to anyone, but i hate yellow , & the guitar had more of an Orange tint in the pics when i purchased it, never bonded with it , i finally found & got an Orange 24 fret , which is what i was looking for, if i could have waited a little longer ..
Jack_TriPpEr
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I have an inexpensive guitar that has a chip in the finish (on the bottom side of the neck pickup cavity), so this thread gave me the idea to look into one of these skins as an option.
This morning I placed an order with one of the designs from the Inzane Skins company. https://www.inzaneskins.com/inzane-skins-designs.php
I like that the site has some well-made video tutorials about how to install a skin yourself.
A nice added bonus is that their products are listed on Amazon, so I was able to partially fund the purchase with an Amazon gift card that I received on Christmas.
While the Amazon site does not list every skin that the company offers, I did get confirmation from John G. by email (the owner of Inzane Skins) that they can adjust your amazon order to the one on their website that you want. I presume though that you should get that confirmation from someone at Inzane before you actually place the order.
Last two cool factors about working with John at Inzane so far, is that John has been very quick to respond (by email) to my different questions over the last 3 days, and he was totally agreeable to my inquiry about tweaking the color of the skin that I ordered.
Regarding the earlier question about how much an electric guitar's tone is affected by one of these skins. I asked John for his opinion on this by email. He said that it's just his opinion, but that these skins (which he says are only 1mm thick) have negligible impact on the tone of a guitar *that already has a finish*. He said as someone that has built and then painted guitars, the impact on tone happens btw when the guitar has just bare wood for a toop and when finish is added.
So, my order is placed, and it will be a few weeks before it arrives. He and I are actually still working on nailing down the color tweak to the skin. He has been emailing me samples.
I'll post pics in a few weeks when i receive the skin in the mail.
This morning I placed an order with one of the designs from the Inzane Skins company. https://www.inzaneskins.com/inzane-skins-designs.php
I like that the site has some well-made video tutorials about how to install a skin yourself.
A nice added bonus is that their products are listed on Amazon, so I was able to partially fund the purchase with an Amazon gift card that I received on Christmas.
While the Amazon site does not list every skin that the company offers, I did get confirmation from John G. by email (the owner of Inzane Skins) that they can adjust your amazon order to the one on their website that you want. I presume though that you should get that confirmation from someone at Inzane before you actually place the order.
Last two cool factors about working with John at Inzane so far, is that John has been very quick to respond (by email) to my different questions over the last 3 days, and he was totally agreeable to my inquiry about tweaking the color of the skin that I ordered.
Regarding the earlier question about how much an electric guitar's tone is affected by one of these skins. I asked John for his opinion on this by email. He said that it's just his opinion, but that these skins (which he says are only 1mm thick) have negligible impact on the tone of a guitar *that already has a finish*. He said as someone that has built and then painted guitars, the impact on tone happens btw when the guitar has just bare wood for a toop and when finish is added.
So, my order is placed, and it will be a few weeks before it arrives. He and I are actually still working on nailing down the color tweak to the skin. He has been emailing me samples.
I'll post pics in a few weeks when i receive the skin in the mail.
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