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Khadi Artist
Exquisite, made-to-order decorative guitar scratchplates hand-covered with Shepherd's bookbinder's paper and hard-wearing resin and/or lacquer, and backed with copper shielding.
Please contact us directly for details, as this is truly a custom experience! We can source a scratchplate for you, or use your guitar's existing scratchplate. We recommend a Resin undercoat with a customised Moonflower Satin finish for optimum aesthetics and playability. Where possible, we prefer to refit the decorated plate in person to ensure a good fit.
Due to the interaction between paper and finishes, some variation in colour may occur. This process involves a number of steps, some of which require curing, so please allow a three to four-week lead time for your order.
Shepherd's have a wide range of paper in stock...please feel free to browse on store.bookbinding.co.uk and let us know what you would prefer if you'd like to look outside of our current stock. Equally, we are open to sourcing other options if desired.
Pricing is on application, but as a rough starting guide (prices include in-store fitting):
- Les Paul types start at £45
- Telecaster types start at £80
- Stratocaster types start at £90
- Full jazz bass types start at £95
Shepherd's says:
"Traditional Islamic paper from North India made from sunn hemp fibre. Handmade on a chapri, a grass stem screen. Sheets are dried on a plaster wall and surface sized with wheat starch.
The colour is applied by brush. Indigo plant dye is probably the oldest of all dyes and was named indikon by the Greeks in reference to its Indian origin. After colouring, the paper is burnished by rubbing on a curved block of wood with a smooth stone."
