My Vintage Guitar Magazine showed up today, did yours?
 

Yes !
 
Next thing you know, they'll make one of those Stanleys inside-out !
 
J o e y

Hi Mica, have you thought of making some of these ads into posters for sale?
 
 
Jazzyvee

Very nice, did you (Mica) do the ad design and layout? It looks like the instrument was shot the usual Alembic way and then nicely PhotoShopped into the beautiful ad.
 
Dave

Yes, Dave, it's one of my regular ol' on the carpet pictures with a carefully placed path for stripping the background. Then some font indulgences and an ad is born.  
 
The Further guitar I'm working on now is proving to be quite a challenging shape to extract. It just takes time!

I guess you don't have the guitar on hand to photograph on a solid background, huh?

There was a post or two on TB suggesting Alembic ads, you did very well with the ad.

I think making up a batch of high-quality posters (Especially the little signature bass shown) would get some interest and make some sales.  I'd like a nice framed one on my music room wall.  Layout and content are exceptionally clean and beautiful in my opinion.  I'm willing to preorder one right now, cool!  What could be better than making some funds from things that are more-or-less already exist?

My sentiments exactly. Maybe include a limited edition on high quality paper signed by the alembic family.  
Jazzyvee

That's even better!

Photoshop: Selection, selection, selection!!  
 
Too bad you don't have a white background to wash out or use the magic wand more on. But you still have to get in close later. Then you can hold down the shift key to use say, the clone or blur tool, to smooth the edges (for a smooth looking edge) and speed things up. Holding it down lets you jump between two points evenly, even though it only goes in a straight line.
 
They look great!

Hey, that's my bass!! How cool is that?!!! Thanks for featuring my beautiful instrument in your ad Mica! I would definitely buy a poster of this if you make one!
 

Way to go Rusty !!!!!

Thanks Wolf! You can bet I will be at Barnes & Nobel in the morning to buy their entire stock of the magazine!

Rusty,  anyone ever tell you that you resemble Gordie Howe?