Inlay Ideas for my new UVMC

malhavok · #1 02-01-2003, 11:09 PM

My loving and gracious wife bought me a silver dot UV7BK for my birthday and sent it off to Herc to be swirled in a PAW color scheme. Of course, I'm eternally grateful to her! The body isn't back yet but I'm thinking that those silver dots are going to have to go. I already have two Uni's with pyramids (WH and BK) so I'm leaning toward not getting the original MC pyramids on it. I started thinking having a guitar with a vine would be mighty sweet. So here are the results of my last three hours of playing around in a photo editor:

Idea 1 which I really like if the guitar has a lot of yellow:

Idea 2 is what I like probably if the guitar doesn't have much yellow:

Idea 3 don't much like the pink stem:

Idea 4 once again, don't dig the pink stem:

Idea 5 might be cool on an overly pink guitar, but I don't dig the pink leaves as much:

Idea 6 again, the big pink leaves don't appeal to me unless it's an SK or such:

Any opinions on any of these? My idea is to get the guitar a bit more Jem looking. I don't own a Jem. I got my first UV less than a year after starting to play guitar (got it in '91). After all this time, 6 strings don't really appeal to me. So, I wanted to make this custom UVMC more of a Jem in it's visual styling cues. Herc did a monkey grip for me. Once I get to add the vines and colored pickups and trim pieces I'm thinking it should be pretty schweet.

Petie · #2 02-01-2003, 11:17 PM

Wow, they all look great. I guess you'll have to wait until you see the guitar. Post pics when you get it!

davester1234 · #3 02-02-2003, 12:13 AM

i like the 4th from the top.

wheresthebeef · #4 02-02-2003, 01:05 AM

idea 2

musicdr · #5 02-02-2003, 01:14 AM

Idea 4.Nice lady you have.

bpd111 · #6 02-02-2003, 02:40 AM

First one.

AlekG · #7 02-02-2003, 03:27 AM

In my opinion Idea 2 is the best.

Mark DY · #8 02-02-2003, 08:39 AM

First - lots of yellow.

ATDVSBL · #9 02-02-2003, 10:13 AM

the first one looks good...what do you think about alternating the leaf colors down the neck?

**cerealk** · #10 02-02-2003, 10:31 AM

I waited to see what my swirl looked like before I choose the neck to go on it.

For me it all depends on the blend of colours in the swirl.

Z0rn · #11 02-02-2003, 12:47 PM

Hard too choose,I think ideas 2 and 4 are the ones I'd be trying to decide between.

gtrcollectr · #12 02-02-2003, 01:14 PM

2 is the one.

motogod927 · #13 02-02-2003, 01:15 PM

I like the 2nd one myself.

malhavok · #14 02-02-2003, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ATDVSBL

the first one looks good...what do you think about alternating the leaf colors down the neck?

Hmm... in what kind of pattern? I tried a little bit of color differentiation where on the actual fret marking leaves, the bigger leaf was one color and the leaf on the other side of the stem was a different color. I didn't dig that so much. But are you thinking something like fret 1 has green, fret 3 has yellow, fret 5 has pink, etc. ?

ATDVSBL · #15 02-02-2003, 02:46 PM

yes, each fret leaf being a different color is what I had in mind, also a swirl vine would be cool.