So Reverb handpicked my Dragon guitar in the “Outrageous Guitar Finishes” collection, I didn’t even know about it. Not listed anymore probably because it sold. Dayum, happy I got some recognition for it. Even better that I’m getting requests for it. Really encouraging that people are interested in my custom work!
A customer was bugged because he didn’t purchase it and asked about future plans. I told him I am painting my used guitars to sell and bankroll into parts for my new builds. So I gave him some options of guitars he can pick out. He picked the SG Jr which would look great with artwork because of the extra room without the neck pickup and bridge tailpiece. The other Epiphone SG will be converted to the Greco SG Kurt had. The inlays don’t match but the color and the Univox Phase 3 pickups I’m reverse engineering will. Hopefully I can sell both for ~$350-400. Would definitely help me upgrade some of the hardware I was planning on buying.
In our apartment that morning, Kurt asked me if he could have the smashed Gibson SG I had hanging on my wall. I asked him, “Why?” and he replied that it didn’t look broken too bad, and he could fix it up and smash it later.
https://innocentwords.com/feature-kurt-cobain-still-taking-care-of-his-friends/
So I said, “Sure, but now I won’t have one for my wall.” Kurt replied, “I’ll be right back.” He went out to their van and presented me a 1973 Fender Mustang that he deemed beyond repair.
Nirvana came to see Hullabaloo play CBGB’s Record Canteen later that day. Kurt repaired the SG I had given him and painted it light blue, with black tape on it. He was photographed by Charles Peterson playing it at the East Ballroom, Husky Union Building, University of Washington, Seattle, WA on January 6, 1990.
He was later videotaped smashing it February 17, 1990 at Iguana’s in Tijuana, Mexico. Earnie Bailey, his guitar tech for the last years of his life, told me that my SG was the only Gibson SG Kurt ever played.
So Excited about this project. Return of the Dragon! It should be fun because I will have more control of the 3d rendered Dragon. I will import it into Rhino3d fix it up using quad remash and then can reposition/recolor the dragon to fit the new SG Jr body. Power I didn’t have working in Illustrator only. Really excited about the possibilities. I was think maybe a dark pink or the user wanted a blue. Should be easy to design different colors. Don’t think I will do the blacklight paint though, the colors are very limiting unfortunately and don’t think many people have blacklights. Maybe if posca adds more backlight colors.