Good News!
I now have started doing custom
engraving (myself!)
These can be done in Black and
White and White and Black Plastics and Anodized Aluminum and Brass.
I'll be putting up more information
about this in the future but if you have any ideas you'd like to go over, I'd be
happy to entertain them-
A few examples for you so far are shown
below and to give you an idea of pricing for a black brushed anodized Jackson/Charvel
Truss rod cover engraved with a symbol, Initials or words, you'll be looking at
$20.00
I'll be able to do neck plates,
rear covers, just about anything but it's a steep learning curve with
all the new software I'm learning to use so this will be kind of a slow
process. I know what you're thinking, isn't everything, when it comes to
me making something? lol!
Now in Polished Brass and
Aluminum!
Below are examples of Gloss and
Brushed Black Plastic with a white bottom. This is a nice material
because as you can see, I can get fairly detailed lines with this.
Unfortunately laminated stock pickguard materials do NOT allow this type
of detail because the top layer is too thick.
Now Some Engravings can be done in the thicker
Laminate materials if the letters in the font are not very detailed:
Here are some examples of what I mean about too much
detail when going too deep:
Noticed how "sloppy" they look?
Les Paul type switch plates.
These can be used on any guitar
that has a switch thread of 1/2" or smaller.
These are made from
plastic/vinyl sign material and is the original thickness of a standard
Les Paul Switch Plate.
Any words can be used as long as
I can fit them in the space available, so let me know your ideas-
For the plastic parts shown
below, these will run around $10-$15 depending on what's being engraved.
Gibson Truss Rod Covers
AVA
A word on "Fonts" If you have a
font in mind, don't hesitate to ask me if I can use it as it's always
possible. There limitations when it comes to plastics because you have
to engrave through a top layer of plastic and sometimes you just can't
get very detailed fonts to come out looking correctly. Now anodized
parts are a different story because they have only a layer of hardened
color to get through and you can get a little more detail by using a
finer pointed cutter.
Hopefully I can have a lot more
information and details with pictures soon, to make things easier for
everyone!
