Could you use something like these?

Threaded inserts on the 'bay

Mother fucker. I'm hoping these are just like Eastwoods too, because the blue one looks right up my street.

The John Squier thing is a massive, fussy abomination. Also it probably weighs a ton. This looks like a custom job, but it's got an Aria 1532 thing going on too. (Did anyone else notice they'd reissued this?!) http://58eca9fdf76150b92bfa-3586c28d09a33a8c605ed79290ca82aa.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/aria-1532...

Second hand? I don't see the harm. If you like it, get it

Meh. It's all been done to death, or maybe I've been around these parts too long. We were looking at Jazzmaster copies 15 years ago on JS.Com, it's become a bit boring. I do like some G&L stuff but I'm not feeling it with these. I'm with Fran. It looks like some Hohner JT60, Stagg or Jay Turser...

FIVE HUNDRED EURO?!? Ridiculous price for such a nothing guitar, and the pic looks like it was photoshopped by a three year old. And that bridge is a travesty.

Did you need to do anything to the neck? Did you know if it was straight when you saved it? In any case, beautiful resto-mod....love everything about it. I didn't know the neck was straight until it arrived, but I've got the original neck from the Elgita as a spare. Oddly the headstock has a slight...

I'm a guess it'd been stored somewhere damp, then allowed to dry out. It was in an absolutely decrepit gig bag, that I had to cut away from the guitar. The pickguards on these decay horrifically, oxidising and fucking-up any metal hardware near them. There was a fair bit of oxidation under the chrom...

The pickguard shape makes sense if there's 4 knobs on it. With the epi config it's too big/sparse and looks bad.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWtTdRmSrYQ[/youtube] Already mentioned this in that thread about orientating the control labels of guitars that have too many controls, but thought I'd post a few pics of the project now it's pretty much done. So I got this Musima Eterna for £110 on the bay....

Almost done! I got the custom pickguard made by Scratch-It, who were super professional and helpful. Really pleased with the result.
http://www.originalscratchplates.com/

jcyphe wrote:I like it.

What program are using to draw these sketches?

I'm attempting to relearn Illustrator. Some of those curves still need a bit of work...

Thanks. I think you're right. The Musima originally has this accent, but Framus and Hopf don't. Because it's a black guitar I reckon it's needed.

I'm nuts for these upside-down controls.

Righto. Good feedback. I agree with all of it.

This is where I'm at now:

I know what you mean. Having the writing upside-down is at least unusual.

This one is sideways, with less guesswork involved. I like it less.

GUITAR IS COOL LOOKING THOUGH This is true. Is that your guitar Tim? Nah, I'm gonna buy one when I find one though. The redburst would look cool with my matching Framus and Musima, but I really like that green finish. Reason for the poll- I've got to design the scratchplate for this Musima I'm fixi...

Ugh, this. It also pisses me off when easily described EQ boost/cut functions are obtusely labeled in marketingese, like "contour" and "colour". Well, quite. This Blackstar HT5 has an EQ control labelled 'ISF' and I don't even. I've fiddled with it a few times but it doesn't see...

Doog wrote:I bet the deluxe models had a real pickup instead of a photo of one too

I'm getting that too. You wanna drag it around to see the details. Can't unsee.

Absolutely love that!