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Guitar templates?
I hope it’s OK to post this here in the Vehicle Wrapping forum as it’s not actually a vehicle I need to wrap?
I’ve been asked to wrap some electric guitars for a shop demo area. Can anyone advise where I can get vector guitar templates from to cover most popular electric guitars (bit like we already have for vehicles)?
I could trace a photograph, but if the perspective of the image is not 100% square to the camera when the picture was taken, I may get accuracy issues.
When I wrap vehicles I use graffityp + matching laminate, but would this be OK to use for the stock and head areas of varnished wooden guitars.
Any ideas/advice would be great.
Thanks.
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done similar on guitar hero things lot of fun.
own photos and draw away, wrap material a overkill as there should not be a molding of the material.
we used the thicker laminate for more protectionchris
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Thanks for that Chris. I appreciate how busy you are, but any more detail on how you did that would be a real help. Thanks.
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if you take your own pictures you will have more control over them,
draw your cut path shape and cut on waist vinyl or paper, see how it fits, modify to suit.place your design with in the cut path as required, print laminate and cut.
hopefully give it to somebody else to fit. as normal vinyl with laminate are twice as thick as wrap stuff it makes fitting easy.
this is only for flat areas if you need to go around the sides best of luck 😉chris
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Thanks Chris. I’ll give it a go on one of my own guitars first!
I’ll also have a go at fitting it – fingers crossed!!
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If you are doing it for a shop Darel then like Chris has said just take your own pictures or you could draw round them but that would be a lot of messing about scanning and then joining up again.
I take it you are just applying to the front and back, the curves at the edges are quite severe and any print wrapped around them would be badly distorted. I’ve done a few just front and backs never actually wrapped one and had no real problems with the ones I have done -
I’ve supplied wrap prints for a few guitars. Took my own photos with the guitar in a holder, and photographed as straight on as I could on a tripod.
Never going to be 100%, but its the best you can do.
Cheers
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Shane: Thanks for that. I come from a photographic background so can easily photograph the guitars and do a trace if necessary. Just thought about templates because I’m getting older, lazy and forever chasing an easier life!!
Martin: Yeah, I’d only be applying to the stock and the head (ie; not the neck). The front and backs are as you infer, fairly straight forward. I’m going to try a complete wrap on the stock and see what happens. I have a few sample wraps/laminates I can use from different suppliers and can monitor the results. If I have any success, I’ll post the pics here! Thanks.I’ve seen some ready made cut out graphics/stickers available that stick on the front of guitars and they are sold in some guitar shops Nationally. It’s pretty basic stuff though and sold as DIY kits for between around £10 – £20.
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