1964 Hagström Futurama Coronado Bass VI 

I just posted this guitar on the Facebook page ‘Hagstrom Vintage Guitars, made in Sweden – where else!’ It was a pleasure doing it.

Someone asked about whether I did commissions. I am open to this but so much depends on the source images; they have to be sharp, and all detail has to be well lit. I aim for exaggerated reality and not impressionistic results. There is an aesthetic, but essentially they are very amped up and glorified technical drawings. Which means I’m not particularly eager to improvise when blur and glare obscure detail. It may take several shots to finish them, which was the case with this Futurama 6 string bass.

The Viking image in a previous post worked well because I own it and was familiar with every bit of detail, and that was great fun.