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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.

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.

Leave them on, they work really well.

MKR wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:16 am

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.

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

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.

Oh boy!

My most coheseive sticker job thus far:





This one's subtle but I like it:



Less subtle but still understated:



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

npfrs wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 28, 2023 11:12 am

really like this one with the cover over the back of the vibrato.

Interesting guitar!!!
I have found a body on my prefered webshop and realyse that there is something unknow or i never see until now ....

It's for a lipstick pu or piezo, i finaly learned something this evening.
Answer, how it sound and work with the others pu ?

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 ....

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.

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

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

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

That looks really good for a spray can job!

X-Ray Spex wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 05, 2024 5:03 am

That looks really good for a spray can job!

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

My Jag-Stang


Baritone Jaguar



and the stickeriest one of all, Apollo 002

My Starcaster I just finished.
20240404_161428 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr