Parts Box Musicmaster with a Mini-Humbucker

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Parts Box Musicmaster with a Mini-Humbucker

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I bought a mini humbucker for cheap a while back and I finally figured out a way to use it. I now present to you my parts box Mini-Hum Musicmaster.

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I used a Squier mini strat neck refinished with tinted amber, tru-oil and a geocha decal. This was my first attempt with tru-oil. I had this neck in the parts box and I thought I would do a practice run on it before I refinished the neck on my 1975 Musicmaster project. Well, it turned out way better than I was expecting and I had an extra musicmaster decal I wasn't using at the moment so everything just kinda fell into place.

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The body is made from poplar. I had made a template from the 1963 Duo/Musicmater I used to own. I figured it would come in handy one day.
The bridge is from a CV Squier DuoSonic. The tuners are kluson style tuners from bezdez on ebay and I got the pickguard material from bezdez as well. I think I have about $150- $200 bucks in the whole thing and I can't seem to put it down.

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This thing plays great. It's a killer little blues/garage guitar.
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Very elegant. I like how the mini matches the shape of the bridge. Well done. I will have to listen for those minis.
The mini-humbucker is a smaller variation of the full size PAF humbucker pickup (used in electric guitars) created by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. It has a thinner, less powerful sound than the full-size version and is frequently used in jazz guitars, mounted under the fingerboard or on the pickguard. The mini-humbucker equipped Gibson Firebird, for example, produces clearer, brighter tones that are quite unlike typical Gibson sounds, and fit well between single coils and full-sized humbuckers in the tonal spectrum.
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man, that guitar is awesome
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DGNR8 wrote:Very elegant. I like how the mini matches the shape of the bridge. Well done. I will have to listen for those minis.
The mini-humbucker is a smaller variation of the full size PAF humbucker pickup (used in electric guitars) created by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. It has a thinner, less powerful sound than the full-size version and is frequently used in jazz guitars, mounted under the fingerboard or on the pickguard. The mini-humbucker equipped Gibson Firebird, for example, produces clearer, brighter tones that are quite unlike typical Gibson sounds, and fit well between single coils and full-sized humbuckers in the tonal spectrum.
this is not correct. the mini-humbucker was developed by epiphone and gibson acquired it when they bought epiphone. they sound quite different from a PAF humbucker.
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Thanks guys. I'm so happy with the way it turned out I'm thinking I need to do a shell pink duo with a maple neck now.

BTW I love the sound of the mini-humbucker. It comes close to sounding like the single coil in my 75 Musicmaster with just a hint of distortion.
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wow coot, that looks great.
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Great job.
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Wow, gorgeous!

That's some pretty nice flame happening on that neck, quite surprising to see that on a squier sourced neck
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It looks lovely. Those mini Strat necks are the same as the 22.5" Duo necks?
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Re: Parts Box Musicmaster with a Mini-Humbucker

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HLY SHIT THIS GUITAR IS AMAZING. I WOULD PLAY THIS 25 HOURS A DAY.

Get some chrome-dome tele knobs and you're taking a one-way train to BONERTOWN.
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TheBurbz wrote:It looks lovely. Those mini Strat necks are the same as the 22.5" Duo necks?
Mini strat necks are 22.75" scale. I moved the bridge back a little to compensate and made a pickguard to fit.
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That's lovely - well done.
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Very, very nice.
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Will wrote:Get some chrome-dome tele knobs and you're taking a one-way train to BONERTOWN.
+1

looks delicious, like a six-stringed cake.
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really really nice.

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cooterfinger wrote:
TheBurbz wrote:It looks lovely. Those mini Strat necks are the same as the 22.5" Duo necks?
Mini strat necks are 22.75" scale. I moved the bridge back a little to compensate and made a pickguard to fit.
That's well done. I guess I always assumed the Mini's scale was shorter than my MIM Duo's 22.75".

I will definitely be keeping my eyes open for one now.
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