Author Topic: Birds of Prey Inlay (Read 328 times)

stickk · « **on:** April 20, 2009, 12:10:58 PM »

Anyone have any pictures of this inlay?

57basstra · « **Reply #1 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:26:53 PM »

Hello, Stickk, welcome to the club. I have a Classical acoustic guitar with a large eagle inlay on the lower part of the guitar. I do not know if this is what you are asking about. I will try to upload a pic. Good luck.

mica · « **Reply #2 on:** April 20, 2009, 01:34:03 PM »

I'll rummage around, I'm sure I have a least a snapshot or two.

stickk · « **Reply #3 on:** April 22, 2009, 12:04:08 PM »

Anybody?

altgrendel · « **Reply #4 on:** April 22, 2009, 12:17:02 PM »

Hi Stickk, and welcome.

Mica's probably your best bet since she's at the Mothership (the main office). She's probably rather busy so it may take some time.

mica · « **Reply #5 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:41:40 PM »

The Birds of Prey Inlay is a series of just that - 10 birds of prey with details like flight feathers distinctly drawn. I've got pictures of ones from the old days of film - I just can't find it for you just yet. What I was able to find on short notice are my mother's original drawings.

Note that not all of these silhouettes made it in the final collection. It's been a while since we have been called to make this inlay. Once we're a little more caught up on the inlay work promised to customers, maybe I can convince my mom to do a Birds of Prey inlay for a guitar in our showroom. It might take a very long time, but when I find a photo of the inlay, I will post it on the Club.

olieoliver · « **Reply #6 on:** April 23, 2009, 07:45:58 PM »

Mica, Mom's got skillzz!!!

OO

gregduboc · « **Reply #7 on:** April 24, 2009, 02:20:31 PM »

I can only imagine how that would look on a bass.... Impressive, at least.
Maybe someone should order a bass with this inlay, so we can all see how it looks. Any one?

Greg

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #8 on:** April 24, 2009, 04:03:32 PM »

Mica, you've made a custom Birds of Prey Essence and got pics of it. I've just printed a picture of it on Alembic's Site back in 1997. It was shown in Custom Gallery along the following text:

James is holding a special order Essence bass for a costumer in Texas. The was (sic) the first Birds of Prey inlay we made

I can send it to you, but my printer at the time had very low resolution. Unfortunatelly the image is very pixelated and in B&W only.

mario_farufyno · « **Reply #9 on:** April 24, 2009, 04:05:57 PM »

Uh...

(sic) in acient Latin means that I literally transcribed the text as it was writen.

mica · « **Reply #10 on:** April 24, 2009, 05:12:39 PM »

Thanks for remembering! That made it much easier for me to locate the image:

57basstra · « **Reply #11 on:** April 24, 2009, 05:15:08 PM »

very nice

stickk · « **Reply #12 on:** April 24, 2009, 08:32:45 PM »

Thanks Mica!

David Houck · « **Reply #13 on:** April 25, 2009, 04:48:45 AM »

And thanks Mario!

jalevinemd · « **Reply #14 on:** April 25, 2009, 09:49:35 AM »

Paul Reed Smith, eat your heart out!