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dub .


Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1472 Location: WGTN, Aotearoa
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:05 am Post subject: Cracked Out Jaguar Project |
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This came up for sale locally (with some rather high contrast images masking the repainting... aha).
I've never had a guitar with the classic jag/jazz tremolo, so I'm going to throw together a cheap jaguar.
The body (apparently homemade, decent wood though) is a mess, looks like it was originally intended for humbuckers and the bridge has been moved forward (longer scale)?
The contours have been reshaped and the post holes filled then the bare parts painted over in creme paint.
Neck is from a Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar. Came with an allparts trem, Mustang bridge, red tort guard.
I'm going with Jag pickups, probably four-way tele wiring (Neck, Bridge, Series, Parallel), one vol, one tone, 1 meg pots. Will omit the rhythm circuit/strangle switch. Parchment guard.
Will see how I like it before considering a refinish/more complicated wiring.
Last edited by dub on Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Zack .


Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 699 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:36 am Post subject: |
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Man, those routes look pretty rough, manageable I guess.
This seems like a good place to try out a refinish, can always strip and try it again right? Might be worth trying to redo the routes too but up that seems like a pain. Hell maybe even replace the route with a pool?
Good luck man! |
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visceral .


Joined: 09 Oct 2014 Posts: 73 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like a fun project! |
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jmmc .


Joined: 23 Jul 2012 Posts: 60 Location: London, UK
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2015 1:53 am Post subject: |
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what a mess! just bring her back to life!! |
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dub .


Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1472 Location: WGTN, Aotearoa
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2015 6:56 am Post subject: |
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It lives. Sort of.
Need to swap the pickups (stuck the bridge in the neck aha)... and chisel the switch deeper to fit the tele switch (hence the tape). Lots of setup crap to do properly but I was impatient just to string it up and see if it was a total wreck.
The pickup mistake will work out better, since I can just flip the pickups and switch around without any rewiring, so it'll be Neck-Parallel-Bridge-Series, which makes more sense to me than what it would have been (Series-Neck-Parallel-Bridge). |
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