Electric Guitar Ornament

Searching for gifts for musicians during the holiday season eventually leads to an ornament that actually captures the instrument, and this hand-blown glass electric guitar earns that description at nearly five inches of painted detail. Chive's version is formed from a gather of molten glass stretched and shaped to approximate the double-cutaway silhouette that changed popular music permanently. The neck is a single narrow extension, painted with fret lines fine enough that each one was applied with a brush whose bristle count the painter could recite from memory. Tuning pegs are six individual dots arranged in a three-by-two grid on a headstock smaller than a postage stamp. The pickup is painted with raised pole-piece dots, because the painter knew that a guitarist would check. The body is finished in a solid color with enough coats to achieve the gloss depth of lacquered wood. A piece with this level of instrumental accuracy belongs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where the real versions live behind glass too.