By popular demand we have extended this competition by a further five days to allow designers the time they need to perfect their submissions.

As an additional incentive, we will now also be offering a second-place prize of $100. The runner-up's artwork will be used as a desktop image for company computers so widescreen options are appreciated although not required (unless you are the second-place winner!).

Wow! The quality of these entries is far beyond anything we were expecting! I'm going to go through and leave comments for each designer individually now, but I've had a few designers request that I consider extending this competition by a few more days to allow people to fine-touch their entries so this may well yet get extended by a few more days.

Comments and ratings on their way now, thank you to everybody who's entered so far: I really am blown away!

I completely agree with athenabelle: brain's pictures are very attractive but unfortunately this competition is for an image of our guitar (the RT) rather than other manufacturer's instruments. His submission #6 is close to what we are after in terms of look and feel (and it's at the right sort of angle - it would be nice if the background was darker though), but it's not the right guitar...!

Hi again everybody: just as a quick note: #6 is not the correct guitar, but does demonstrate the sort of angle and reflection feel we're looking for (although we would prefer a darker background and, of course, for the image to actually be of our guitar!)

Hi Sallyem, thank you for your message. I've uploaded a few high-resolution images for you (and any other designer who wants them). They can be downloaded from here:

http://www.kavanaghcustoms.co.uk/ou…mpetition/

Beware that these are very large files though (around 3MB each).

Brains: Thank you for your submissions. Please read the brief though: we are looking for one image of a very specific guitar.