Mini Model of Music: my Paper Guitar

I present to you: my final paper guitar! I'm super proud of how this came out!


The headstock is quite detailed, with a multi-part tuners and a functional nut to hold the strings in place. One of my favourite details on the head is the tops of the tuners, and how the strings wrap around only a small amount. While on most guitars, the strings wrap around the tuning pegs multiple times, my electric guitar has locking tuners, which do not require that wrapping. This makes my paper model more accurate to my own guitar.


As I said in a pervious blog post, I painted the body of my (real) electric guitar as an art project a few years ago. To imitate the pattern in paper, I greatly simplified the image down to basic shapes and did my best to distill it to its essence. I'm quite proud of how it came out, and I believe it succeeds in conveying the essence of the original's painting.


I'm incredibly happy with how all the small details of this project came out. The height of the bridge and pickups and strings work so well together. The volume and tone knobs, despite being incredibly tiny and hard to make, are indisputably important to the profile as well. Additionally, the bevel on the body is another relatively small detail I though important to include.


I feel I didn’t get much feedback during the actual critique on the 15th. The previous week, when class was cancelled, me and a few other students held a mini-crit, in which I feel I got some better information. During this mini-crit, someone suggested I add strings, which I tried in a prototype before implementing on the final. I personally think add to the realism of the final product.


Due to the many colours in my design, I had MANY sheets in my print template.


In terms of other digital products, the render of the guitar model looks almost identical to the paper model, albeit bleached.



Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next time

    - Pete  

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