Mutilated Mustang Thread (Finished!)

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Mutilated Mustang Thread (Finished!)

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I thought I’d do a thread on repairing punkacc’s mutilated mustang body. He said he was cool with me doing the thread and I thought it might be informative. That is, if I can pull it off. I’ve repaired some smaller ugly routes but this one will be a much bigger challenge. Just for the record. Punkacc had no part in the rape of this body. It was in this shape when he bought it.

First, let’s take a look at the carnage topside.

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As you can see, it’s been routed for a toggle switch on the lower horn. Someone chiseled out a shapely overflow into the control cavity for the massive swimming pool route.

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The trem route has been gutted down the middle and filled with glue and BB’s for fucks sake. Bridge cup holes were filled and they started drilling new holes in a different location. Numerous dents and dings scattered about.

Now the back.
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The surf green paint and punkacc’s sharpie notes actually look pretty punk rock. It appears to be in fair shape. Just a bunch of dings.

The edge on the lower bout at the control cavity has been drilled for a jack that was never installed.

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Well, that what we’re faced with. I’ll post more tomorrow.
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Looks like you have your work cut out for you. LOL :)
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I do like the sharpie. But something's gotta be done with those holes!
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the back is awesome. shame it doesn't have like a mark twain poem on it or something.
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I removed the shielding plate and it looks like the original color was olympic white. Not that that matters much in this case.

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Finally got all the BB’s out of the trem routes. I’d like to find the genius who glued them in and give him back his BBs one shot at a time.
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Sanded down the body and found a few more surprises. Six holes were drilled all the way through the body and filled with whatever was handy. Glue, wood putty and even some spackling. You can see where I circled the holes in the pictures.
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I think the next step will be to drill the holes out and glue in wood dowels.
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Looks better already.
cooterfinger wrote:Finally got all the BB’s out of the trem routes. I’d like to find the genius who glued them in and give him back his BBs one shot at a time.
LOL. Seriously, why in the hell would they put BBs in there? Truly bizarre.
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dren68 wrote:Looks better already.
cooterfinger wrote:Finally got all the BB’s out of the trem routes. I’d like to find the genius who glued them in and give him back his BBs one shot at a time.
LOL. Seriously, why in the hell would they put BBs in there? Truly bizarre.
That's funny haha. And like I said to Richard, they probably thought it would add weight to it or something.. Lol
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dren68 wrote:Looks better already.
cooterfinger wrote:Finally got all the BB’s out of the trem routes. I’d like to find the genius who glued them in and give him back his BBs one shot at a time.
LOL. Seriously, why in the hell would they put BBs in there? Truly bizarre.

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Holy crap, dude.
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I wish my writing looked as nice as that on the guitar!!
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Well, it’s been a few days and I finally got a chance to get back on this.

I decided to make the pool larger and square it up.

First I marked it off and hogged out some areas.

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Oops! Neck pocket chipped out. I was kinda expecting that to happen since the previous routes were so close.
I had a plan to redo the neck pocket if I had to but luckily all the chipped pieces were found so now it’s just a matter of piecing back a
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Here it is all pieced back together. When it’s finished it should be stronger than before.
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New route all cleaned up.

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Nice block of poplar to glue into place.
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That takes care of the bulk of it. I have a couple more areas to fill and a layer of ¼� poplar to glue on before I can route it again.
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Nice work! Looking 1,000,000,000 times better.
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HNB wrote:Nice work! Looking 1,000,000,000 times better.
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Heroic save.
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Thanks guys. I'm still a little nervous about hiding all this mess under the rug so to speak.
I plan to route and glue a thin veneer over the top to cover everything.

Meanwhile, I filled the last of the damage this evening.

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Excellent! Can't wait to see it all gutted.

(By the way, I haven't forgotten about doing a tracing for you. Maybe I can get that done this weekend. You just wanted the outline of the guitar body, right?)
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HNB wrote:Excellent! Can't wait to see it all gutted.

(By the way, I haven't forgotten about doing a tracing for you. Maybe I can get that done this weekend. You just wanted the outline of the guitar body, right?)
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Update:

Today I planed a 7� wide strip down of the front of the body 3/16ths of an inch deep. The width of the red line in this picture.

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Then I planed down some 3 ½� wide poplar slabs.
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Glued and clamped. Hopefully that’s the last we’ll see of those nasty routes.
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Glued slabs ready to route.

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Clean slate!

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fuck, that is crazy good! i'd never even have thought of that.

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Un-fucking-real. Cooter has magic powers.
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