Custom guitar lettering

July 25th, 2012

My mate Ali from the great Up Up Design in Glasgow asked me to draw some custom lettering for his new guitar using his grandparents names. It was a nice thing to do and the end result looks great applied to what I’m informed by people who know these things, is a rather good instrument.

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