cooterfinger wrote:

i think you should re-upholster your armchairs to look like that greasy bastard.

then paint it green. (the guitar not the chair).

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*edit* spelling mistake!

Later in the run, the maple necks used maple skunk stripes and plugs, which suggests that they are NOT actual Tele necks. But the first ones with the walnut stripe/plug look identical to me. Mustang pickups, Strat switch/CTS pots, Klusons/F-tuners, F-plate, maple Tele neck... and you could buy thes...

if i take your teory, i would have to think, that all the mustangs necks are the same, which they are obviously NOT. just take the 69 reissue and the 65 reissue, they are different, feel it! the 65 is really thick, like a vintage 65 mustang, and the 69 is thinner, like vintage competition series an...

I could equally go for the TU-2 daisychained up, but I better check one out in th flesh first to see if I can read it from a floored position, like. I don't like to wear glasses on stage (I've only just gotten used to wearing the reading glasses to adjust me amp settings at soundcheck - if anyone t...

For whatever reason, some of those 70s bodies are wonderfully heavy. My 78 Bronco body is as heavy my entire 72 Musicmaster. I would love to have a maple neck. My '76 weighs about twice as much as my CIJ! i bought an amp from a guy who said he used to own a '79 mustang, he said he got rid of it bec...

current (economical) live setup- http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i85/blackinternational/IMG_2205.jpg top right to bottom left: noise suppressor, signal splitter, soundtank tubescreamer, fulltone distortion, tuner, dd3, big muff. one channel has the tubescreamer, fulltone and delay and goes into a ...

I think Fender started putting black strat knobs on mustangs in late '76 or early '77. I agree about the 70's pickups, mine are loud and punchy, excellent overall. My CIJ had such shit stock pickups that I immediately swapped them out for some Lace Sensors. The 70's mustangs are quite the bargain. ...

i've never seen one with a stock finish like that before. it looks quite unusual! my main reason for hunting down a '76 was the neck; i much prefer maple fingerboards, rosewood feels too 'spongy' for my taste. i realise i'll probably be blaspheming wildly by saying that, but it's just my preference....

hmm. i'm erring towards nitro finish. i'll just need to do it in my garage and beat a retreat from the fumes.

it definitely doesn't shrink. i've seen it used on ceramics and it's fine. it'll be painted white, i want an off-white finish, i'm not quite sure how i'm going to do it. someone suggested sticking it in the oven once the clear coat had hardened, but i'd imagine it depends on whether or not it's a ni...

this 1978 musicmaster is something i've been working on intermittently since i got it about 2 years ago(!). where to begin? someone somewhere is responsible for making this body fit for the bin, and i thought it might be nice to bring it back from the brink. the body had been routed (terribly) for a...

My 1976 mustang has the small logo, and the headstock is all poly. The tuners are chrome button, but the knobs are the classic jaguar/mustang/jazz bass knobs, though this is around the era that Fender started using the black strat knobs. The serial number on the headstock decal starts with "76...

did anyone see the '71 competition orange on ebay a couple of weeks back? only went for $100 more than that one and it looked similar in condition. no fair.

...and be hopeful i never give cause to be associated with this!

Really the only guitar that settled RIGHT into a stylistic rut was the tele, because it was the only one that did what it did at the time when you were sitting in a big swing group. when i first started playing in bands (about 12 years ago) one of my friends used to snort at telecasters because the...

since you are new, you probably haven't seen my modern take on the classic form. the fender duo-caster it looks like you've made a much better job of it than the fool who butchered my musicmaster (or am i the fool for buying it and trying to fix it?) it was practically a hollow-body by the time he'...

mustangs were used as the pickups and covers were left overs too. The neck as said to be the same a late CBS tele neck but with the bullet I had I think thats untrue. The pots and electronics are CTS 250k and switchcraft parts. Kluson repos like I had but they used what ever was around the shop I l...

i used a strat-type one as my main guitar for about a year and a half. the combined scratchplate/bridge is a bit of a pain if anything goes wrong with it (like grub screws randomly falling out) but it does mean people are less tempted to butcher them. sound-wise it's fairly similar to my '76 mustan...