This is my card for this week's Teapot Tuesday challenge - you can find all the details HERE after it has gone live. This guitar is travelling to Hawaii. Weird coincidence, the day after I showed the card to DH he found a YouTube video from a guitar maker who used to live in HI.
I tried out a new-to-me tutorial from our Tutorials section - the Guitar Card. I will say that it was a brilliant tutorial and the attention to detail - little things like embossing the cream card to create the saddle - was brilliant. But I found the wood veneer that I have hard to work with. When I cut the front in half and rotated half as Carol suggested, that was OK. But then I put it through the BS to cut the hole - and both pieces warped and one stretched more than the other. So I had to carefully pull them off the card base, cut a hole in a new piece of card and then carefully glue them back on to that. I probably will make one of these again for DH at some stage (he sacrificed the plectrum), but I will probably just use faux wod. Otherwise it was great fun to make. As a token hint of green, I used Mizhuki cord and green wire for the strings. I was afraid at first that I might have strung it left-handed - but was reassured when I went back downstairs and checked DH's.
Date: Monday, January 1, 2018 GMT Views: 1075
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Registered: January 19, 2014 Location: Central Indiana Posts: 91095
Wed, Jan 03, 2018 @ 7:44 AM
Wowza Sabrina your guitar is fantastic. Sorry it gave you a few added challenges but it really turned out quite beautiful. The strings look very real like a stringed instrument especially with the added colors. Nicely done.
Registered: November 7, 2009 Location: Sacramento Posts: 39175
Wed, Jan 03, 2018 @ 11:09 PM
What a fabulous guitar card, Sabrina! I think they take quite a lot of work (I made one for my nephew once but didn't use wood veneer). I'm sure this will put a smile on Lambert's face.