I decorated my playfield! There were so few things about the playfield that negatively caught my eye, but this metal bracket with two lock nuts over the shooter lane... staring at me on every skill-shot attempt... was a no-go. Some spiffy miniatures and a custom bracket and it is much improved. What do you all think? (First photo of original bracket is not my machine).
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Thanks. That looks much better. I may paint mine or order the keychain one.

Ha. Yeah, just ordered it.

I had to add a small bit of foam tape to mine to lift up the left side a bit.

I'll post a picture tomorrow if it will help.

Still waiting for mine!

I got the keychain. I don't think I am going to use it. It is yellow. But it is also a flat cutout of wood with a photo-sticker of a guitar on it. It does have a decent quality sticker. But the original guitar I got is a work of art in comparison. It's actually a miniature hollow-body guitar, with strings and pickups and a bridge and tuners with amazing 3D detail, and the lacquer finish is spectacular. (It even came with a guitar case). The keychain is a great upgrade in my opinion to the ugly bracket. And it is yellow. But the other guitar is beautiful (and the neck fits a better).

In looking at the pictures of both, I'll say this. The photo of the red guitar does not do it justice. The photos of the yellow guitar look much better than the actual guitar.

The quality of the red guitar is such that I might consider sanding off the finish and staining the wood yellow. If I can order another one, I might try that. If not, I'll just hang this photo near the machine until I get used to it https://i2-prod.belfastlive.co.uk/incoming/article16422078.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/0_Belsonic-Slash-10_Lewis.jpg

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It was well worth the effort to try. I'll post a side-by-side when I have a chance. The problem is really that the sticker photographs REALLY well. But in person, it doesn't compare to what is basically a miniature real guitar.

Okay, I think I've worked out a good guitar to cover the metal bracket. I used the existing guitar as a template and just made another so that it could be yellow. I went with the starburst pattern. It's very 3-dimensional, so you can really see the tuners, nuts, pickups, strings, pick guard, and every other detail. It's pretty much the same size, so I don't need to remake the bracket that holds it in place. See pictures for the original, the new one, and a comparison. Thoughts? It took like two hours just to get the paint and lacquer "right." Did it come out okay?

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And here is the back (not that you really see it).

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I had a similar problem. For me, the metal forms were bent in a funny way. I had to re-bend them for extra clearance. I can't tell in your pic if that's the case for you. But give it a good look over.

I just got it installed. I definitely like the yellow better, and it was well worth the time to get it right. Thank you all for your comments. I think it is much improved over the original. And I'm so glad not to be looking at the steel bracket anymore!

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I am really liking the slash guitar add-on I made to cover the metal bracket on the shooting lane. I'm thinking of making a few more for other people who might like it as well. Pinside has helped me a lot and I'd like to make a few for people and just either give them away for free, or ask to cover the costs of materials/shipping (maybe like 20 bucks I think, but I think I'd make that optional too). I haven't worked this out in detail yet, but is there any interest before I make the investment and start figuring out if I could make this work?

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I mocked one up with 6. It looked very weird. I think it's scale issue. Kind of like how 5 fingered cartoon characters look stranger than 4 fingered characters! At that size, the 6 string version looked like it had way too many strings from a distance, unless you actually counted them. I went back and forth on it a lot, and finally I just asked some non-interested people (ie. my wife and kids) to look at my real guitars and then look at the tiny ones and which one looked better. All of them thought the 6 string looked strange. Even after telling them it actually had the right amount of stings!

I used this photo as a reference. How do you think I can improve on it?

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Done and done... as for the guitar color, are you referencing the fully yellow version he uses, as opposed to this starburst pattern in the picture? It would probably be easier to do the fully yellow to amber color than the yellow to amber to black color I tried.

I only plan on making a few because they take so much time. I guess there is interest enough to justify 5 or six of them. So I'll just go ahead and make them and then see who wants to claim them. I just didn't want to be stuck with half a dozen of them if no one wanted them. Thank you everyone. I'll let you all know when I have some ready.

So basically I have two out of the three colors fairly correct, but we need to skip the f-holes and add another button on the top? Forgive my being slow on this, and I do appreciate your help. Is that the main issues?

The 6 strings are really rough with this scale. From the player's perspective, it looks right when you are playing, and really weird with more strings are added. I mean I *could* add another two. That isn't an issue. It just looks so weird to me when it isn't zoomed in. Maybe I'll mock it up again and take another picture.

Very helpful. I have the 2d printed one. I'll take a picture of it in the machine for comparison. The problem is that it is printed with like shadow effects that look really good in a photo, but really not so great in person!

I'll also get a pic of the 6 string version when I have a chance. I used a thinner gauge steel wire to fit them (I got them from a single thread of picture hanging wire). It looked pretty good close-up. In the machine, however, they were so hard to see it looked like the guitar didn't have any strings at all! And I swear, it looked like there were 8 or more of them from a distance.

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. I am already so much happier with the modifications you and others suggested, and they really improve the look of it.

Love it!

I didn't want to clog this thread up too much with my attempt to get my Slash Guitar Mod tweaked. So I created a new topic if anyone wants to follow along or share their thoughts. I'm also looking for a way to make a handful or two more and give them away to a few Pinsiders as a little thank you. I haven't worked out all the details on how to do that, but if you have any ideas, feel free to post them here:

https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/slash-guitar-mod-for-jj-gnr#post-6601375

Thanks again everyone.

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