This is a guitar vector ive been working on for a while.
55 layers, 5 or 6 hours spread out over a month
only part not vectored is The BG. It is a solid color with noise
Original

Vector

Ok 5th draft
Any Suggestions?

Great job!! Experiment with gradients. You can recreate some very realistic lighting with gradients. For instance, the neck of the guitar. Notice on the original image how the color is lighter where the light is hitting near the base of the neck. Within the shape of the neck, drag a gradient that goes from light brown to dark brown. Actually sample the colors from the original image. I have done some vector art in the past that you would swear was a photo. It just takes practice. You can also get some very nice metallic effects with gradients. Experiment and have fun! Good luck.

Yes....if you look at the neck of the guitar...you are missing the notes (dots) and lines....where the person puts their fingers.

dots and lines= inlays and frets

one thing that might help is to make the pick guard a light gray color, like staywild said, sample some of the colors from the source. match the guard to the same tone from the photo and I guarantee that that alone will make it look better, instead of pure white.

Ok i added frets, connecter and some graidents

Looking good. Keep at it. You can really round off those edges with the right gradients.

HA! Yep, looks tons better! Keep at it, can't wait to see the final product.

Ok added sticker more gradients, improved string connecters

Throw a small drop shadow under it to pop it off of the background.

AH! either that or some reflections on the guitar sides, good eye Rey,
knew it needed something , but not what

Fourth draft
added reflections and shadow

WOW!
that's starting to look real, nice job man, some of those crazy ReyRey type reflecions on the top and it'll trick people.

I take that back, it does look real already, i gotts stop and look at it to see it's a chop, awesome

what ya need to do now is, 1: make the screws more metallic instead of little gray blobs, and 2: do some grain and shadow work on the neck. Those are the things I would do next. looks great!