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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2015 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Partially assembled/corrected the body, took pics, will start a "how to put together an mjt jag" thread in the next couple days |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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Rough cut on a spitfire guard, nerve racking to say the least...
And working on this old thing...
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:41 am Post subject: |
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Progress of the slowest kind, routs are *just* too shallow so I will have to go in and make some room, but that's a Monday problem
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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vojtasTS29 .


Joined: 03 Aug 2015 Posts: 313 Location: Prague
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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that is sexy. |
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Noisy Cat .


Joined: 25 Aug 2011 Posts: 614 Location: East London
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Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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That's gorgeous.
A Jag with a Tele bridge pickup and a JM neck pickup is my dream... |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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That's going to take some work tweaking |
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Awstin .


Joined: 14 Jan 2012 Posts: 3933 Location: Pennsylvania
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Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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finboy wrote: |
That's going to take some work tweaking |
Really? Dont do that. You have a hardtail trem plate on it and you'll be drilling holes in the body. I know it's a rough body but it's still vintage and the mods to it are only under the Pickguard at the moment. Seeing this breaks my heart for selling it haha. _________________ Congratulations! Your Punkacc9 evolved into Awstin. |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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Girl-caster getting revived into a tele plus with kill switch
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dots BADmin

Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 1015873 Location: on the move
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2016 1:50 am Post subject: |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Two steps forward, one step back. Just after this photo went to read her the guard, slipped with the drill and put a small crack in the guard *doh*
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Mad-Mike .


Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 49 Location: Somewhere
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Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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Apartment Guitar build - Working on my own interpretation of a Mosrite using mostly hand-tools (only power tools - router and a palm sander)
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Bacchus Whatever's handiest

Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 20413 Location: wandering
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2016 1:00 am Post subject: |
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That looks brilliant. Like some sort of reverse Performer. Like a Supersonic Performer. _________________
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Mad-Mike .


Joined: 20 Apr 2006 Posts: 49 Location: Somewhere
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2016 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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Bacchus wrote: |
That looks brilliant. Like some sort of reverse Performer. Like a Supersonic Performer. |
Thanks, I'm planning to build templates off this one if it works out good. Nifty part was I did the initial shaping and cutout using nothing but a pull-saw and a coping saw - all hand power. _________________ It's Me |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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My buddy bought a BONAMASSA firebird, and as much as I don’t care for white boy blues, it was an undeniably great guitar. Boredom but the better of me in isolation, and I found one for $599 Canadian from L&M (*maybe* 425 American?) and it is mint. Here it is with my other single pickup epiphone:
As usual, I’m going to end up spending more than the guitars value on parts, but it is a solid platform with a great pickup.
Plastic peg heads to get some weight off the body:
And some new pots (VIP pots 500k for vol, 250k cts for bridge)
New bridge and trem are in the mail, but god knows when things will actually arrive given the mess we are in, wait and see I suppose. |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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sunshiner .


Joined: 02 Nov 2012 Posts: 4847 Location: Around the corner
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Missed it when you first posted. Looks great! Bonamassa makes Epiphone put a normal C neck in all his signature guitars because he doesn't like their regular skinny necks _________________
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Someone man up and get a balloon. |
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finboy .

Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 3515 Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2020 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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sunshiner wrote: |
Missed it when you first posted. Looks great! Bonamassa makes Epiphone put a normal C neck in all his signature guitars because he doesn't like their regular skinny necks |
That’s one of the reason I bought this, I normally HATE firebird necks |
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