Looking mucho better -

Do a wee bit of work around the Input Jack. Right now it is a fairly flat gray indent - again Go Forth With Gradients and see if you can get that curved metalic thing happening like the original JackHole has.

The only other thing you might want to add to make it more realistic (even though the original is mysteriously missing it) is some vomit stains and maybe a cigarette burn or two up by the machine heads!

Looks great! ~ my suggestion is gold glassy knobs and switch maybe? ~ flames? lightning?

gold knobs? lightning and fire?! hell no! lol glass knobs are cuel, though, the see-through kind. you dont put lighting and fire on Strats like that, though a warlock, maybe...

5th draft.
Improved plug added string shadows.
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I have a suggestion" Stand up next to a mountain, and chop it down with the edge of your hand ~

hey, I think if you applied a plastic wrap filter to the plugin, and just tweaked it a bit, it would give it that shiny look that the real photo has. try that and tell me if it works.

yeah i would but if you apply filters it pixelates the layer.
so you lose all the Vectorness

ah, ok, my bad. never had any experience with Vectors, unfortunately.