Hi,
A friend of mine asked me to model and render a Gibson Les Paul guitar and this is the result:
I’m quite happy with the result and I don’t think the images look too boring even though I haven’t done much post processing… But if you have any ideas, thoughts or criticism I would love to hear it. 
They are such beautiful guitars … you did a fantastic job on this, my only crit would be I wish you would have posted full rez images of the other renders vs. the film strip you did, so I could admire it even more.
And btw… Sorry for the low quality background… 
I think the reason for it is that I exported the images as jpeg from Photoshop… 
Very nice! The wood texture is great. 
Thank you! - At first I didn’t like the texture, but I couldn’t find anything better…
So good , love the guitar
Beautiful job of modeling and rendering.
Steve S
Nice modeling and very detailed
Beautiful!
Textures and materials are great! Love it, good job
Nice rendition of the guitar.
Great work Dan the materials looks spot on! I was looking at doing a les paul too but a cherry sunburst variant
Wow! Thank you everyone! 
Really cool! One of my favorite guitar.
Neil Young use a 1953 Gibson Lespaul called “Old black”
Thank you! Wow the “Old black” is really nice - I should make that one too…
I’m doing some guitar rendering myself, and I’m finding the sunburst finish a challenge. Could you offer any pointers?
Great modelling. Very detailed I think.
Congrats.
@Hybrid_X: I remember I used the vertex paint to create the effect. I just painted the outer vertecies of the body and then used the ‘attribute node’ to get the vertex paint into the material. Just write “Col” in the text-field in the attribute node. (“Col” is the default name of new vertex paints. )
You can easily mix the black and orange color with the output of the attribute node as the factor.
@dogdayfear: Thanks
Cool… good to know. I’m hoping to find a way to use it that’s “re-usable” and can be applied to different body shapes, so I don’t have to manually paint it for every instance.
I was hoping there’d be a way to extract an X-Y alpha channel and use that in some way to procedurally create the burst. Unfortunately, it seems alpha channels are only accessible in compositing mode.
