Paperguitar's Red Special

Wendigo

New Member
So, a quick model for this summer: Bryan May's Red Special from paperguitar.com.

Building follows the same steps as other guitars and I will point out only the differences.

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No tabs, instead I used 1.5 mm cardboard.

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Wendigo

New Member
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The fretboard - I used 1 and 1.5 mm cardboard

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The neck and the bridges.

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Bridges and the parts for the tuning keys.
 

Wendigo

New Member
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The saddle is made from 2mm cardboard bricks (tiny ones :nuts:) and painted - sorry for the quality of the photos, it's because I used the supermacro function of the camera.

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This is how I made the strings: cut a thin strip of paper, fixed it (it's important to have a little tension for it to stay straight), pour superglue on it's length and when it's dry paint it. Only then can it be removed from the clams.

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The stand is made from soldered wire from paperclips and in the ends there is white glue (the one I use for papermodels).
 

2Kamser

New Member
now if we could only find a to scale Brian May :D
immaculate build, just awsome
i have the Gibson LP on my build list, thanks for the inspiration
 

peter taft

Senior Member
WOW ! now that's a COOOOOL guitar build - EXCELLENT work and a guitar worth doing :thumb:. I'd like to see a Gibson SG Cherry paper model too.
 

Wendigo

New Member
Thank you guys for your input!
I remember not being so enthusiastic about the guitars given the fact they were made from so few parts but a couple of details here and there, details easy to do, and you've got some excellent models, in fact, the Red Special is the best model I've built so far. When I'll do the next one I'll use glossy photo paper - it'll have more detail in the textures :twisted:.
 
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