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MrFantasy
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Syd Barrett's guitar
#5795376 - 06/27/06 10:15 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm a big fan of Syd and was wondering about his mirrored guitar he had. Does anyone know if you can get mirrored guitars like his not nessasarly his same type but maybe any Fender. I know they have mirrored pick guards but I'm not sure about the actual guitar itself.
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adamj
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Re: Syd Barrett's guitar [Re: MrFantasy]
#5795483 - 06/27/06 10:53 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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hmm I'm sure you could make one yourself. Aren't mirror's just plastic with a thin layer of.. the reflective mirror stuff (sry don't know the name)
Maybe I'm wrong. All I know is that in grade 9 Science class, we had these little mirrors and you could peel off the reflective material.
Now Im curious.
*EDIT* Yeah I'm way off
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The typical mirror is a sheet of glass that is coated on its back with aluminum or silver that produces images by reflection. The mirrors used in Greco-Roman antiquity and throughout the European Middle Ages were simply slightly convex disks of metal, either bronze, tin, or silver, that reflected light off their highly polished surfaces. A method of backing a plate of flat glass with a thin sheet of reflecting metal came into widespread production in Venice during the 16th century; an amalgam of tin and mercury was the metal used. The chemical process of coating a glass surface with metallic silver was discovered by Justus von Liebig in 1835, and this advance inaugurated the modern techniques of mirror making. Present-day mirrors are made by sputtering a thin layer of molten aluminum or silver onto the back of a plate of glass in a vacuum. In mirrors used in telescopes and other optical instruments, the aluminum is evaporated onto the front surface of the glass rather than on the back, in order to eliminate faint reflections from the glass itself.
Edited by adamj (06/27/06 10:58 AM)
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MrFantasy
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Re: Syd Barrett's guitar [Re: adamj]
#5795501 - 06/27/06 10:59 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yea I think I know what your talking about. I just wonder if that stuff would be right for it, not sure how it would come out looking. I wondering how Syd had his made?
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Re: Syd Barrett's guitar [Re: MrFantasy]
#5796264 - 06/27/06 04:15 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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he just got some circular mirrors and glued it to his guitar. its not that hard.
-------------------- that there, thats not me. i go where i please. im not here. this isnt happening.
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MrFantasy
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Re: Syd Barrett's guitar [Re: plexus]
#5798839 - 06/28/06 10:07 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yea I ended up seeing that but then the idea of have a full mirrored guitar came to mind. But maybe just the pickguard being mirrored would do.
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