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Partially assembled/corrected the body, took pics, will start a "how to put together an mjt jag" thread in the next couple days
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Rough cut on a spitfire guard, nerve racking to say the least...

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And working on this old thing...

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Progress of the slowest kind, routs are *just* too shallow so I will have to go in and make some room, but that's a Monday problem

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that is sexy.
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That's gorgeous.

A Jag with a Tele bridge pickup and a JM neck pickup is my dream...
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That's going to take some work tweaking
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That's going to take some work tweaking

Really? Dont do that. You have a hardtail trem plate on it and you'll be drilling holes in the body. I know it's a rough body but it's still vintage and the mods to it are only under the Pickguard at the moment. Seeing this breaks my heart for selling it haha.
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Girl-caster getting revived into a tele plus with kill switch

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i dig that scumbag finish.
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Two steps forward, one step back. Just after this photo went to read her the guard, slipped with the drill and put a small crack in the guard *doh*

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Apartment Guitar build - Working on my own interpretation of a Mosrite using mostly hand-tools (only power tools - router and a palm sander)

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That looks brilliant. Like some sort of reverse Performer. Like a Supersonic Performer.
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Bacchus wrote:That looks brilliant. Like some sort of reverse Performer. Like a Supersonic Performer.
Thanks, I'm planning to build templates off this one if it works out good. Nifty part was I did the initial shaping and cutout using nothing but a pull-saw and a coping saw - all hand power.
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My buddy bought a BONAMASSA firebird, and as much as I don’t care for white boy blues, it was an undeniably great guitar. Boredom but the better of me in isolation, and I found one for $599 Canadian from L&M (*maybe* 425 American?) and it is mint. Here it is with my other single pickup epiphone:

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As usual, I’m going to end up spending more than the guitars value on parts, but it is a solid platform with a great pickup.

Plastic peg heads to get some weight off the body:
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And some new pots (VIP pots 500k for vol, 250k cts for bridge)

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New bridge and trem are in the mail, but god knows when things will actually arrive given the mess we are in, wait and see I suppose.
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Missed it when you first posted. Looks great! Bonamassa makes Epiphone put a normal C neck in all his signature guitars because he doesn't like their regular skinny necks
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sunshiner wrote:Missed it when you first posted. Looks great! Bonamassa makes Epiphone put a normal C neck in all his signature guitars because he doesn't like their regular skinny necks
That’s one of the reason I bought this, I normally HATE firebird necks