Les Paul Custom

[Omer Deutsch OD]

higher rez from this?! this image is huge

dont know those tuners...how do you tune it without making a few turns?

is it those? cuz it has turns on it...http://modguitar.com/archives/1112

[barrlley]

http://www.alloutput.com/tremolo/P5110030.JPG

Locking tuners. That link shows it a bit better. I have em on my Mayones, just a half turn needed. That link you posted shows the string just bent around half way, no additional turns, like the render. The only reason why guitars normally have a bunch of wraps is because the string slips as you tune it until it gets enough surface area to grab the tuning peg. Locking tuners remove that need altogether, by pinning the string from inside the tuning peg.

No not higher res, when I posted it here in order to meet the MB limit I had to downsample the jpg rather significantly. The original flattened Tiff file is 16bit, and around 600mb. You lose a lot of detail even at this large a print when you save down to a medium setting, crappy 8bit jpg outta photoshop.

[Omer Deutsch OD]

got it...very cool, i like the Mayones ...looks great

[barrlley]

I've been quite bogged down lately, was going to work on another image showing the back of the guitar and the internals, but that might have to wait until I get some free time.

[Rafael Reis]

The model looks ok, but the rendering is not good. You have to work better the shaders and reflections... looks like an old scanline rendering.

[barrlley]

Ha. OK. At least my comments are based in the realm of reality

[VladoMN]

I noted my remarks on attached image. Some basic body shape concerns (the main body shape looks like it doesnt have the nicest flow, also some questions about screws and stuff).

Otherwise, an epic effort on epic guitar 3D model. Congratulations.

[barrlley]

It was modeled off actual '58 Les Paul Standard Blueprints, so it is probably the angle of the camera more than the shape that you're having issues with. Not quite sure what you mean about the headstock binding, or the screw for that matter. could you enunciate a bit more?

If you look at the high res image you'll see the headstock binding has 5 layers, as was the intention. It's not a copy of the "Les Paul Custom" model, which has a wider binding and a much larger headstock, it's a customized Les Paul. Same could be said for the binding around the top piece on the body; I thought of doing a wider binding but I was going for the more classic '58 binding rather than the big monster one on front and back of the body. '58 Les Pauls have less binding than some other versions, in fact there is no binding on the headstock on a 58 standard. But then again, 58' Les Pauls didn't come with a chambered body, quilted maple top, ESP pickups, Sperzel locking tuners or Graphtech nuts, so some design liberties were obviously taken regardless of the binding thickness--but it is accurate thickness-wise to the blueprints for the body. The binding is also its own geometry, it's not mapped.

As for the tail stop screw, it's obviously the same screw copied, so it would have the same irregularity between the two. Not high in my priority list of things to fix.

I'm honestly more concerned with the noise on the quilted maple texture I used for the top piece. It's not so easy to find really top notch images of wood in super high res.

[VladoMN]

I marked with purple top of the guitar and the bottom of the guitar.

[barrlley]

Clearly you did not actually read what I wrote. Try again.