The Other Blonde by frogdot
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
A Gibson ES175.
Many years ago, in high school, I lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, original home of Gibson Guitars. A friend and I went down to see if we could look around. This was the mid-60s and mainstream rock&roll hadn't discovered Gibsons for the most part. They didn't have organized tours, but the company VP happened to be there and took us all around the plant. The last room was where all the finished guitars sat in racks ready to be played by testers. The sight of a few hundred shiny new, very expensive guitars still sticks with me like it was yesterday. They were still making the old style jazz guitars and many that aren't made any more. Much to my disappointment, they didn't let us take any home as free samples.
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Most of the parts were made in AmapiPro, when I made my ES335. This body and assorted items were made with Hexagon. Made the chair too, with Lemog mat. Tony Lynch wood mats

Comments (14)
Ahhh! the memories!!! Too bad about the free samples, Dave.
Beautiful work!
This is soooo COOOOL!!!! Thank you.
ES-175 Steve Howes main Ax and he is certainly not a jazz player for the most part. Love big fat hollowbodies. I think heritage guitars still makes guitars there.
Wow, superb modelling!! This is great. I love the lighting too.
Very nice work. Love the fabric on that chair.
shame on them, the least they could do, is give you a kalamazoo to hum along with.
This ROCKS :) (Love Gibson)
Fantastic replication Dave! I love showing my husband your guitars, he is always quite blown away at your constructive abilities. Rock On! (=
A pure beuaty. Excellent modeling. ...and I recognized that texture on the chair: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1064761
Excellent work.
Superb w(OoO)W
Constantine High School 1969. (Graduated 3rd, in a class of two). Excellent work!
Such excellent 3D modeling and rendering. Always fine choices are made by you says i