Fish Frames are back to framing unusual items once more!  And a guitar, signed by Roger Daltrey and Green Day, was one of the more unusual items we have been asked to frame.  But the guitar wasn’t any ordinary guitar – it was a Les Paul Gibson, a most beautiful item in its own right – and very valuable!

The customer wished to see through the sides of the box frame and also wished a plaque to be made with the pertinent details on it.

Our ‘framer extraordinaire’, Simon, put his thinking cap on and came up with, more or less, a display case, with conservation glass on all sides – front, top, bottom, right and left, with the guitar placed on suedette conservation mountboard, to make it look very plush.  He basically made two frames and joined them together with the glass, plus some fillets, corner pieces and silicone.

Completely removable

How did we attach the guitar to the mountboard?  Well, we used extremely strong fishing wire to sew four points along the guitar to the board, plus we bought a guitar neck hanger from a local music shop to hold the neck of the guitar more securely.  The guitar is completely removable from the frame, with no damage being done to it whatsoever!  Which is what conservation framing is all about really.

‘Who are you?’

So, after asking Si ‘Who are you?’ he decided he wasn’t a ‘Substitute’ who was going for a walk along the ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ but ‘King for a Day’ when he had finished the job and certainly not a ‘Basket Case’, even though he felt like one!  (Sorry, couldn’t resist).

We were really pleased with the result but, more importantly, so was our customer!  Another fantastic result and very special thanks to Si.