Nitebob
Okay, So Crescendo have these awesome see through strats made of perspex (I know, they're heavy) I wanted one before I bought my current SX Strat, but it was on the sea...yada yada yada...
Now I have a stripped but complete SX strat lying at home, which I have been undecided about what I want to do with the body.
If I want to have this perspex body made:
1) Is it best to use a luthier?
2) Can I take the old strat body to a perspex shop and say "I want this in perspex"?
3) Does anybody know of someone in Cape Town (preferably Northern Suburbs) that can do this type of thing?
4) Do you think it will be costly?
Shibbibilybob
I do think it would be costly...the problem being that you only want a once off.
I also think your best option would be to get it 3d printed, although i don't have any suggestions for where.
Good luck dude, sounds like a lot of fun.
Manfred-Klose
from what i could remember it could get pretty expensive.
first phone maizey plastics and get a from them for clear perspex, about 44mm of thicker, and the size of the body you need.
if you have the exact drawing of the guitar body on CAD, it makes things abit easier.
there is alof of companies that do this sort of thing, but they wont be cheap.
...at the end of the day i would try and track down that "Credcendo" guitar you saw in the first place and just buy that.
another cheap alternative, you decided to not go with a strat body that has curves, and go for something like a telecaster that is flat, then you can get say 5 x 10mm sheets, cut all of them out in layers, and glue them together, this would work out cheaper, and you can chip the inner pieces , and with all the layers on top of each other it creates a nice affect.
if you are in the northern suburbs i could point you to someone that can do this type of thing
DonovanB
I saw one for sale on take 2. I'd buy one rather cos I'm lazy like that.
a mate has an acrylic bass. he says it sucks because it has no tone, is flipping heavy and can't handle the force of the strings. so it's just for looks.
Gearhead
Putting the desirability aside, I reckon your best shot at building it is to build it up from thinner layers. You can join two pieces of perspex with a glue that leaves no trace: perspex dissolved in tri. You use up your scrap perspex while making the glue, making it cost effective. Trouble is maybe that tri (Trichloroethylene) is bad news: carsinogenic, poisonous, not very easily available, flammable, evaporates quickly, not cheap and so forth. The upside is that you can determine your own mixture by adding either tri or perspex until you get the right thickness.
Get all the bubbles out and you will not be able to see the glue faces, so your guitar body will look as if it was made up of one piece.
