{"product_id":"clear-machine-carved-acrylic-guitar-sculpture-120cm","title":"Clear Machine-Carved Acrylic Guitar Sculpture - 120cm","description":"\u003ch3\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis sculpture in A-grade acrylic is an acoustic guitar carved whole: the waisted body with its soft shoulders, the rosette of small cut dots ringing the sound hole, the bridge, the fretted neck and four tuners at the head. Everything that would be a different material on a real instrument is the same material here, so the whole thing is read through itself, one detail overlaying the next. It is held upright in a clear acrylic stand of three fins, which comes with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Whole Instrument Read Through Itself\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarving an instrument in a colourless body removes the one thing that normally separates its parts. On a guitar the fingerboard is dark, the soundboard pale and the rosette inlaid, and the eye uses those changes to find the form; take them away and only depth of cut is left to do the work. So the frets are cut deep enough to catch light as a row of lines, the rosette is cut as a ring of small facets rather than a plain groove, and the sound hole is left as an actual opening so there is one place the eye can rest. The A grade matters at this thickness because an ordinary panel carries enough internal haze to grey out the far side of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 120cm instrument is a single-object piece and it wants a wall or a corner of its own: a music room, a study, a studio, the end of a long hall. Light from one side is what finds the frets and the rosette, where a flat wash from the front loses both. A dark ground behind it reads best, since a colourless carving needs something to be seen against. Give it space in front rather than pushing it into a recess, because the body is shaped in two directions and the shoulders only register from an angle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eScale, Clarity Grade and the Cut Details\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eReckon on 3–4 weeks for a standard piece, or 5–6 weeks for a bespoke one. Scale is the main variable and the instrument is cut to whatever size the position wants. The clarity grade can be raised, which shows more of the far side of the body through the near side, and a frosted finish is offered where less transparency is wanted. A tint can be put through the material. The depth of the fret cuts and the treatment of the rosette are both open. It can be made with a fixing on the back so that it hangs on a wall. It arrives complete and is a two-person handling job, carried at the body rather than the neck. Our main studios are in the UK (Birmingham) and Dubai, with additional global workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour tuners and a fretted neck in clear acrylic belong with our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/indoor-sculptures\"\u003eindoor sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e; a rosette of cut dots round an open sound hole points to our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/contemporary-modern-sculptures\"\u003econtemporary and modern sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e, and a whole instrument machine-carved in colourless acrylic joins our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/acrylic-sculptures\"\u003eacrylic sculptures\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecification\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ctable class=\"spec_table\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHeight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e120cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWidth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e50cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eDepth\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e35cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eClear Acrylic Stand\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e–\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMaterial\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMachine-Carved A-Grade Acrylic with a Clear Acrylic Stand\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Giant Sculptures","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54015817253211,"sku":"Y126","price":9313.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0869\/3383\/2027\/files\/Y126.jpg?v=1790887255","url":"https:\/\/giant-sculptures.com\/products\/clear-machine-carved-acrylic-guitar-sculpture-120cm","provider":"Giant Sculptures","version":"1.0","type":"link"}