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Post by dnic on Jan 12, 2023 8:37:51 GMT -6
Is that squiggly emblem related to Carlos Santana? It looks vaguely familiar. Perhaps I'm thinking of the "Aum" symbol or whatever- something Eastern like that. でつ e&oe ...No idea what the emblem is about. Carlos is into some weird stuff IMHO. It is probably related to that. When I saw the Eagle on there I thought maybe Eddie did some time at PRS and snuck in his motif.
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Post by dnic on Jan 12, 2023 8:43:56 GMT -6
That's a very nice guitar. Has the better known headstock shape. I really don't like the Santana headstock shape. Not a fan of that peg head as well. I don't think the early ones were like this. It was after PRS starting making the Santana signature models that they started to change the look of the peg head.
This is also part of the guitars that I build that I find the most frustrating. Trying to come up with something that no one has and yet looks good with the guitar I am making. I have used a PRS kind of sort of looking peg heads on my guitars. They look like each other, but are not the same. I have even altered the open book one like on LP's. I alter them so that no one can say It's just like what Gibson uses. But the look is there.
Oh, the other thing I don't like in this picture is the nut. That not looks like it was done in a cheap way. Doesn't look finished. EB
Not sure when it originated but I knew it was connected to the Santana model. The first time I designed my own headstock I searched through these two big books I have about guitars. To make sure I didn't copy anyones design. Then after the fact I saw something that was close to what I ended up with. My problem is I don't like drastic looking designs and everything else has pretty much been done. I'm happy with few original designs I use now. I now that they are my own even if others do something similar.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2023 13:04:36 GMT -6
Dane said...
"The first time I designed my own headstock I searched through these two big books I have about guitars. To make sure I didn't copy anyones design. Then after the fact I saw something that was close to what I ended up with. My problem is I don't like drastic looking designs and everything else has pretty much been done. I'm happy with few original designs I use now. I now that they are my own even if others do something similar." ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
Seems like every time I think I come up with something, someone else has already done it. Just like on my last guitar. I thought I came up with a good design, then Steve shows me a guitar with the same look on the headstock. Just like guitar body shapes. I can sit and draw out something, only to find one online that looks a lot like the one I just did on paper. So for the most part I don't make them.
The one design I came up with using my 71 LP for the butt and the Tele wings, I was sure no one else had done that. But after making my first one, I saw that Texas Toast had done the same thing, along with some others.
The Guitar Attack guitar body, I thought I was the first to do that sort of thing. Again, I used my 71 LP for the butt, but I used a Fender Mustang for the horns of the guitar. I think it was a year after making the Guitar Attack guitar, I saw another guy that had done the same thing as me.
So, I don't mind-altering other designs and making them my own, sort of... But as you well know, I like clean and simple lines. One reason I don't care for "Vs" and SG's and some other way out there guitars. I have made some for way out there guitars for past customers. But not for me.
EB
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