Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Wed Mar 14, 2018 2:36 am

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That logo badge is awesome! Is it plastic? How did you make it?
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I designed it in Sketchup. It was 3D printed by Shapeways in plastic.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Mar 15, 2018 4:05 am

Been playing around with 3D modelling again. Came up with these fools-gold foil pickup covers!

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by smjenkins » Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:44 am

Oh man, those pickups look so classy. Really solid work there. Any plans for what you'll put them in?

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Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:48 pm

thanks. Not entirely sure yet. I have a blackwood jazzmaster that I might put them in.

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Post by hpr_hpr » Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:08 am

Beautiful work . . . VERY nice.
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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Rgand » Fri Mar 16, 2018 9:13 am

Very nice work with the covers. Those will add a touch more class to what they go in.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:09 am

I'd like to get some printed in white too. and maybe use different coloured backing, instead of gold.

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Post by Rgand » Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:54 am

For other colors, I could see silver or a color to match, or compliment, the guitar color.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Mar 22, 2018 4:34 am

The Crossrite is done.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by smjenkins » Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:31 am

Wow that is beautiful. The perfect color blue. Also, I'm a sucker for a good pun guitar name. :D

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:49 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
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Been playing around with 3D modelling again. Came up with these fools-gold foil pickup covers!

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These are great! There's a really nice Art Deco vibe about them.

I'd love to see them with aluminium casings too.
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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Rgand » Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:05 am

Now that is cool! I love that blue. It's just about the best blue for a guitar. Classy, striking, beautiful.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by Fiddy » Thu Mar 22, 2018 8:50 am

Looks really beautiful, but...

I thought you were getting away from doing other people's designs? 🤔

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by vandahm » Thu Mar 22, 2018 12:19 pm

tribi9 wrote:
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Looks really beautiful, but...

I thought you were getting away from doing other people's designs? 🤔
From following the thread, it looks like he has several projects going at a time. Even if his new projects are original designs, he almost certainly has a backlog of unfinished older projects that he needs to get through.

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Re: Cross Guitars - projects and restorations

Post by CROSS_guitars » Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:21 pm

That's correct.
There was never any immediate deadline to these builds. It's great to finally finish some of them.

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