{"id":310,"date":"2013-04-25T09:20:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=310"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T09:20:59","slug":"arrrgh-ye-blind-pew-bonehead-custom-truss-rod-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Arrrgh! Ye Blind Pew! BoneHead Custom Truss Rod Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_311\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_Sm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311\" title=\"BoneHead Truss Rod Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_Sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_Sm.jpg 700w, http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_Sm-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I believe in my last post I said that I&#8217;d put up a photo of the finished piece as soon as I can. (I guess that means now). I thought for sure that I&#8217;d have something up in 2 or 3 days but perhaps it&#8217;s time to get real about myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I actually did manage to cut the cover out on my machine the following day (see pic below) but didn&#8217;t get to laying the silver leaf and subsequent tarnish job until just the other day. It still needs a clear coat to arrest the tarnish but for the most part it is finished. Looks pretty good too, I think. Looks like something one might find by digging up the lost treasure of some guitar loving pirates. Amazing what you can do with just a piece of plastic, silver leaf and some imagination (oh yes, and a computer, 3D software, CAM software, CNC machine&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the apres cut shot:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_312\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_rough.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312\" title=\"silver_leaf_skull_trc_rough\" src=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_rough.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_rough.jpg 400w, http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/silver_leaf_skull_trc_rough-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bare bones&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Would love to hear what anyone out there thinks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in my last post I said that I&#8217;d put up a photo of the finished piece as soon as I can. (I guess that means now). I thought for sure that I&#8217;d have something up in 2 or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}