that’s awesome. good luck with the auction.
i would think because that pattern has some rows that don’t truly overlap, you might be able to realign the guitar and the pattern with the camera to run a couple of more rows of the never not funny lines and finish off that top corner that slopes off on the strat. you could be paranoid and set up a separate color that is just maybe the outlines of the talk bubbles, mask the guitar, and score on the very lightest setting to see where the marks are lining up w/o actually marking hte guitar underneath. i’ve done that to verify alignment.
i wasn’t able to do that with the paisley because it was a continuous pattern with no logical break. if you’re curious, here’s the link to that engrave.
my buddy (the guitar builder) and I have done 9 or 10 guitars so far. the paisley one was nerve wracking because of the alignment. i put it off a lot. the others were much simpler because it wasn’t a full-body engrave.