Show your stickered up guitars!

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by MKR » Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:16 am

I have never really been a stickers on guitar guy, but i decided to add some to my stratocaster. There's some obvious inspiration from a black jaguar Johnny Marr played in his Modest Mouse days.

I'm on the fence with how my strat turned out. I like it, but i think my past philosophy of keeping my guitars sticker free is a constant voice in my brain telling me to take the stickers off.

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by X-Ray Spex » Fri Aug 04, 2023 6:34 am

MKR wrote:
Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:16 am
I have never really been a stickers on guitar guy, but i decided to add some to my stratocaster. There's some obvious inspiration from a black jaguar Johnny Marr played in his Modest Mouse days.

I'm on the fence with how my strat turned out. I like it, but i think my past philosophy of keeping my guitars sticker free is a constant voice in my brain telling me to take the stickers off.

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Leave them on, they work really well.
''It's not what you play, it's what you play'' - Troy Van Leeuwen

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by ThePearDream » Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:39 pm

MKR wrote:
Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:16 am

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I like it. I'm not sure if it wouldn't be better without the green leaves.

I have a few guitars with some small Charley Harper leaf stickers hidden on the back . They make me smile.
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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by GilmourD » Fri Aug 04, 2023 7:25 pm

Does adhesive vinyl cut on a Cricut count as a sticker?

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by Spiteface » Sun Aug 20, 2023 1:11 pm

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This is a Gordon Smith GS1 60 that I named "Maiko-chan"

I bought the guitar in February 2020. This is one of the only times I'll admit to what one might call "Retail Therapy" - my mother was in hospital, having been diagnosed with cancer. In one of the last conversations I had with her, I mentioned the shop I saw this in was having a closing down sale 20% off. She actually said I should get it. A few days later she passed away.

A few weeks later I was on holiday in Japan (a holiday that went from a thing I wanted to something I needed. For context, I got home just as the UK was going into lockdown in late march). While in Kyoto I saw a Maiko show, a Maiko being the term for a trainee Geisha. Next day I was in some souvenir shop and bought a load of stickers including this one. So I decided to combine two bright spots (I love the guitar, and Japan is a beautiful country) in what was a really shitty time in me life, even without a global pandemic.

Thought the name fit, seeing as the guitar is very much a Junior-style thing, too.

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by npfrs » Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:12 am

Oh boy!

My most coheseive sticker job thus far:

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This one's subtle but I like it:

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Less subtle but still understated:

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This one has quite a few on the back as well:

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by efiug » Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:27 am

npfrs wrote:
Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:12 am
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really like this one with the cover over the back of the vibrato.

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by Biloxide » Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:54 am

Interesting guitar!!!
I have found a body on my prefered webshop and realyse that there is something unknow or i never see until now :derp: ....
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It's for a lipstick pu or piezo, i finaly learned something this evening.
Answer, how it sound and work with the others pu ?

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by JSett » Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:56 am

Biloxide wrote:
Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:54 am
Interesting guitar!!!
I have found a body on my prefered webshop and realyse that there is something unknow or i never see until now :derp: ....
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It's for a lipstick pu, i finaly learned something this evening.
Answer, how it sound and work with the others pu ?
It's a very old mod for offsets, I think pioneered by Sonic Youth (could be wrong), to amplify the sympathetic string resonance and playing behind the bridge. Usually it's just flipped on/off with an extra switch.
Silly Rabbit, don't you know scooped mids are for kids?

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by Biloxide » Tue Aug 29, 2023 12:01 pm

Hi jsett,
I didn't know this mods, ok i understand now the goal, thank's for your explain. Bye.

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by Firecat » Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:39 am

Here's my stickered Partsmaster. I finished this with a spray can without knowing what I was doing. The stickers on the body are mainly there to hide the spots where I really messed up ;D

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by X-Ray Spex » Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:03 am

Firecat wrote:
Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:39 am
Here's my stickered Partsmaster. I finished this with a spray can without knowing what I was doing. The stickers on the body are mainly there to hide the spots where I really messed up ;D

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That looks really good for a spray can job! :o
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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by Firecat » Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:18 am

X-Ray Spex wrote:
Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:03 am
That looks really good for a spray can job! :o
It sure looks good from a distance, not so much from close by. I missed a few spots around the pickguard and ruined some others where the paint started dripping (hid those with the stickers).

The colour is really nice though. I only gave it a very thin layer of nitro and didn't polish it, so it's like a matte metallic finish. Non of this was planned, but it turned out cool 8)

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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by ThePearDream » Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:34 am

My Jag-Stang
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Baritone Jaguar
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and the stickeriest one of all, Apollo 002
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Re: Show your stickered up guitars!

Post by HNB » Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:59 am

My Starcaster I just finished. :)
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