Since a couple of musical instrument have been shown here,
I'd like to show this electric guitar I made a while ago,
the neck being modelled after my (yes, my !) Fender Stratocaster
57 reissue, and the body created from scratch.

BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.

Maybe we could do the Pov-Band ;)  The first single will be : "you've
been raytracing too long" ;-)

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Really like the neck and head, but what are those traingle-shaped cutouts in
the body?
I also think that the knobs could be easily changed to more realistic ones,
and that the bridge where the strings are attached at the end could be a bit
more detailed.
But I like it anyway!!!!!!!

Bugs74


Fabien Mosen <101### [at] compuservecom> heeft geschreven in bericht
<370EEE23.DAAC9EC0@compuserve.com>...
>Since a couple of musical instrument have been shown here,
>I'd like to show this electric guitar I made a while ago,
>the neck being modelled after my (yes, my !) Fender Stratocaster
>57 reissue, and the body created from scratch.
>
>BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
>Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.
>
>Maybe we could do the Pov-Band ;)  The first single will be : "you've
>been raytracing too long" ;-)

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Nice,
Yeah i agree, neck looks a bit chuck though.
Be a bit painful to play..
Evan,

Bugs74 wrote:

> Really like the neck and head, but what are those traingle-shaped cutouts in
> the body?
> I also think that the knobs could be easily changed to more realistic ones,
> and that the bridge where the strings are attached at the end could be a bit
> more detailed.
> But I like it anyway!!!!!!!
>
> Bugs74
>
> Fabien Mosen <101### [at] compuservecom> heeft geschreven in bericht
> <370EEE23.DAAC9EC0@compuserve.com>...
> >Since a couple of musical instrument have been shown here,
> >I'd like to show this electric guitar I made a while ago,
> >the neck being modelled after my (yes, my !) Fender Stratocaster
> >57 reissue, and the body created from scratch.
> >
> >BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
> >Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.
> >
> >Maybe we could do the Pov-Band ;)  The first single will be : "you've
> >been raytracing too long" ;-)

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Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
> Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.

I played the trumpet for a while (I haven't played it in over a year,
though... which is really unfortunate).  I haven't yet modeled/rendered
a trumpet yet, though.

-Nathan

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I'm a pianist/composer, any time i get a synthesizer i'll play it...

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I guess I could be considered a pover as I occasionally play with it. Anyway,
I play drums - marching field snare for my school's marching band as well as
drum set for jazz band, and I'm thinking about joining a band with some of my
friends.

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Noam Lewis wrote:
> 
> I'm a pianist/composer, any time i get a synthesizer i'll play it...

  Same here except I own a conventional piano and have been playing for
32 years now. I have also spent some time with the accordion (borrowed
for a year), owned and played a full dual keyboard church type organ
for a while, played alto sax two years in high school, messed with the
harmonica on occasion (own two types), fiddle around sometimes with an
acoustic guitar that I own, and I am pretty adept at picking up just
about any kind of musical instrument and figuring out how to play at
least a simple melody in a reasonably short time. Often the last at
the great surprise of the owner of the instrament.
  I consider myself a poor musician in most regards although I have a
great natural sense of musical structure and pitch perfect perception.
My self described musician skills are probably discipline related more
than lack of anything else. Just never took the time to learn it all the
way I should have.

  I play Pov now perhaps the best of all those mentioned.

--
Ken Tyler
mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
> Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.

Guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and harmonica, and (allegedly) singing
when I'm drunk... :) Used to know my way round a studio as well, many
years ago.

I just spent several hours trying to model my main guitar - a gorgeous
black gold Ibanez - and it's, um, a bit tricky The hardware and neck are
alright, but the body's been hand-carved until there's hardly a flat
surface or sharp corner left on it... Fabien, how did you get the nice
curved chamfer around the top of the guitar body? It looks like a CSG
union using cylinders and tori, but I'd be curious to know how it's
done.

Cheers,

D.

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Hey Noam, I've got an old KORG Poly-800, I only had piano lessons from
my grandmother as a kid though. I just like synthesizers.
One of my brother-in-laws has made a CD of their band Bop Cops, a jazz
group in Seattle. They played at some "Alley" place downtown, forget the
name now, one time I was visiting there a few years ago. He also played
in a band at the Seattle Center another time when I was there more
recently. Some kind of "swing" music revival among the teens going on.
I'm not exactly what you'd call music literate though, in fact more the
side of illiterate. Can't read sheet music at all.

Oh, yeah... the guitar looks great, Fabien. A real good one is at the
AOL POV-Ray scene file library, from the version 2 days. It's real neat
but lacks the rounded edges for the body if I remember right. Looks like
you might want to add some lacquer to that finish though. A bit of
reflectivity and specular hilight. There's one or two strange lines in
that too. Is it CSG? Wondered how you got the rounded edges in yours.


Noam Lewis wrote:
> 
> I'm a pianist/composer, any time i get a synthesizer i'll play it...

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I've been playing piano for about 16 years now, and guitar for about 6
years.
I own a Bluthner piano (build in 1890) and a Gibson Les Paul Standard...,
and a Epiphone Les Paul Customized Standard

If onyone could build models of those three Instruments I'd be the luckiest
man on earth....

Bugs74

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Bugs74 wrote:
> 
> I've been playing piano for about 16 years now, and guitar for about 6
> years.
> I own a Bluthner piano (build in 1890) and a Gibson Les Paul Standard...,
> and a Epiphone Les Paul Customized Standard
> 
> If onyone could build models of those three Instruments I'd be the luckiest
> man on earth....
> 
> Bugs74

 Your piano is really old. The one I have stored at my mothers was
manufactured as recently as 1906 a full 16 years later. The one I have
here was made in 1977. I have a Swiss made violin from 1882 but is in
need of repair and restoration before it could be played. Someday ...

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Nice.  No tremalo arm?

Maybe the first single would be "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" and
would be published on ".INC File Records".

Cheers
Steve

PS: I play folk, clasical guitar and sing.  I played the clarinet
and violin untill a few years after leaving school. Havn't
touched my electrick guitar for years.  

Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> Since a couple of musical instrument have been shown here,
> I'd like to show this electric guitar I made a while ago,
> the neck being modelled after my (yes, my !) Fender Stratocaster
> 57 reissue, and the body created from scratch.
> 
> BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
> Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.
> 
> Maybe we could do the Pov-Band ;)  The first single will be : "you've
> been raytracing too long" ;-)
> 
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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If you can point me in the direction of an image of your piano I would like to
give it a try, sounds like a cool challenge.   ;-]

KB-

Bugs74 wrote:

> I've been playing piano for about 16 years now, and guitar for about 6
> years.
> I own a Bluthner piano (build in 1890) and a Gibson Les Paul Standard...,
> and a Epiphone Les Paul Customized Standard
>
> If onyone could build models of those three Instruments I'd be the luckiest
> man on earth....
>
> Bugs74

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Steve wrote:
>Nice.  No tremalo arm?
Although most Strats have the floating bridge not all do, this might
just
be a standaard bridge.
--
...coffee?...yes please! extra sugar,extra cream...Thank you.

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I try to stick to guitar If I can but I sing from time to time. It's not
always
painful to hear but I learned to sing so I would be a decent back-up
singer.
I've been playing guitar for...oh, about 14 yrs? I don't play much
anymore.
A few months ago I bought Cakewalk Pro audio 8 which is software to
record midi and audio and run them together. It cost me about $250.00.
I of course also have Povray for free...
Now, does Phil spend all his spare time using:
(A) the $250.00 program
(B) the free program?

Answer: (B)
But my Obi-Wan Lightsabre is looking better and better all the time!

--
...coffee?...yes please! extra sugar,extra cream...Thank you.

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Phil Clute wrote:
> 
> I try to stick to guitar If I can but I sing from time to time. It's not
> always
> painful to hear but I learned to sing so I would be a decent back-up
> singer.
> I've been playing guitar for...oh, about 14 yrs? I don't play much
> anymore.
> A few months ago I bought Cakewalk Pro audio 8 which is software to
> record midi and audio and run them together. It cost me about $250.00.
> I of course also have Povray for free...
> Now, does Phil spend all his spare time using:
> (A) the $250.00 program
> (B) the free program?
> 
> Answer: (B)
> But my Obi-Wan Lightsabre is looking better and better all the time!

That sounds all too familiar. I purchased Auto Cad 14 last year. It is
considered one of the leaders for cad programs and offers 3D solid object
modeling and 3 different forms of rendering including a photorealistic
raytracing process (questionable). I paid over $600 US for the program.

I have Pov-Ray for windows that I obtained for free.

Of the two which do you think has paid for itself ?

A. Auto Cad 14 that I use sometimes to fix .dxf files so I can export them
as .3ds files which are later converted to Pov files for rendering.
On 3 occassions I actually used it to read some customer drawings that
were sent to me but I cold have obtained the info from by other means.

or

B. Pov-Ray for windows and dos that has been used on average of 3 - 5
times a week for 4 years now.

My vote has to be Pov-Ray for windows. Even had I paid over $600 dollars
for it it would have paid for itself many times over by now. Auto Cad 14
is not turning out to be the wise investment I had hoped it would be.
I should probably sell it before the next version release which would
kill it's current high resale value -  the only redeeming value it has.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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>  Same here except I own a conventional piano and have been
playing for
>32 years now.

Same here, but I haven't been playing for so long... I'm not
even 32 yet...by far
15 years I think it is. I just started playing the piano we
got at home one day, and it sounded pretty nice, I think,
'cause I still play now. Never took any lessons, though...
spoils my creativity. Learned to read notes when I was very
young and was playing violin, but I haven't touched one of
those for a looong time.

>My self described musician skills are probably discipline
related more
>than lack of anything else. Just never took the time to
learn it all the
>way I should have.

So you taught yourself too? I don't think you really missed
much (but I can't really tell). I think when you teach
yourself, you develop a certain style that is very personal.
That's worth more to me than that I can play Rachmaninov
without making any mistakes (which I can't...)

Julius

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Actually, I can find my way on a piano/synth as well, I play both the alto and
the sopran saxophone, I can make pretty good sounds with a flute, and supposedly
I can sing. hehe


Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> Since a couple of musical instrument have been shown here,
> I'd like to show this electric guitar I made a while ago,
> the neck being modelled after my (yes, my !) Fender Stratocaster
> 57 reissue, and the body created from scratch.
> 
> BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
> Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.
> 
> Maybe we could do the Pov-Band ;)  The first single will be : "you've
> been raytracing too long" ;-)
> 
>   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                  Name: Gbody2.jpg
>    Gbody2.jpg    Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg)
>              Encoding: base64

-- 
//Spider
        [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
                "Marian"
        By: "Sisters Of Mercy"

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I have played (not recently) Trombone.  Even got a concert quality
instrument.

Steve


Fabien Mosen wrote:
> 
> Since a couple of musical instrument have been shown here,
> I'd like to show this electric guitar I made a while ago,
> the neck being modelled after my (yes, my !) Fender Stratocaster
> 57 reissue, and the body created from scratch.
> 
> BTW, Spider said he plays saxophone, are there any other musician
> Povers around here ?  Personally, I play guitar and electric bass.
> 
> Maybe we could do the Pov-Band ;)  The first single will be : "you've
> been raytracing too long" ;-)
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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If that was my baby I'd polish it every day.

Cheers
Steve

Phil Clute wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:
> >Nice.  No tremalo arm?
> Although most Strats have the floating bridge not all do, this might
> just
> be a standaard bridge.
> --
> ...coffee?...yes please! extra sugar,extra cream...Thank you.

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