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Home / Blog / I am making a replica of the Emerald Deluxe guitar I made for Alex Kapranos
3.1.20

I am making a replica of the Emerald Deluxe guitar I made for Alex Kapranos

 

A custom vacuum chamber will degas the epoxy as it cures. Emerald beetle wings are collected from the forest floor in Thailand After the insects mate and die. I lay them up like roofing tile and embed them in epoxy

 

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