Yeah, it sounds cool. I managed to download the templates.
Will work on it in a bit.
I figure (being the shred happy type) nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Anyone else on here who's participating?

Cheers

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/JEMUV/contest.html

The will be only one winner, and Ibanez will create two custom guitars with the selected design at the Ibanez Custom Shop. One guitar will go to the winner, and the other guitar will go to Steve Vai.

Wow, imagine that?

A bit limited in what you can really do. You can't change the shape or the headstock or the scratchplate so it's down to material, finishes and hardware from what I understand

Sounds cool, and I'll definitely enter, but I'm a bit dissapointed in the rigid rules. No messing with the monkey grip and pickguard....at least we get to do a fixed bridge design.

"Your design should not include or make any reference to any particular region, culture, religion, conflict, politics or commercial entity, nor should it pose or connote negative sentiments or imagery."

So it's pretty much pics of kittens then?

singemonkey wrote: "Your design should not include or make any reference to any particular region, culture, religion, conflict, politics or commercial entity, nor should it pose or connote negative sentiments or imagery."

So it's pretty much pics of kittens then?

Or puppies ?

I'm going with a few geometric ideas...

Ooooo, can't wait to see Mika's design!! ?

Sean wrote: Ooooo, can't wait to see Mika's design!! ?

I suppose it will be shaped like an empty eye socket... I wonder how he's going to explain that to Steve ?

I downloaded my template and will start shortly on the design.
I think you need to make it graphically more sound that change allot of things on the guitar.

Remember Via will need to use it, and he is picky as hell! So try not to change to much of his signature configuration!

Good luck all, I hope one of us here wins it!

And the winner is:

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/JEMUV/winner.html

Apart from the gold hardware, the rest is pretty damn cool if you ask me!

Yeah, it's very busy, but I quite like it.

That is pretty damn amazing imo. i would defos take that ? He should have kept the inlays standard though imo. My friend was right, he said they are just going to mad artists entering this (I never had a chance :\)

Looking at all the finalists, I must admit that the winner is probably the nicest/ best.............even though I think the runner up one with the flames would have been a close second for me.............for obvious reasons..........hahahahaha........ ?

Aubs1 wrote: Looking at all the finalists, I must admit that the winner is probably the nicest/ best.............even though I think the runner up one with the flames would have been a close second for me.............for obvious reasons..........hahahahaha........ ?

I did like some of the other designs a bit more (I liked that GuitarBentley guy) but i couldn't imagine them as an actual guitar for some reason, some of them were like cartoony.