the pickups might not be replacements, as they both appear to have flat polepieces. Still a bad deal though.

It's very easy. The most important step is to make sure you get really good painter's tape, so that you'll end up with a clean paint line.

if you like St.Vincent, you can hear a great use of this on Northern Lights, 2:34 especially:

Punkacc9 wrote:I think it all looks cool haha. I ordered the Pickguard and pickup covers! Should be done soon.

yeah, your body has more visible grain than mine. Are you going with white or black pickup covers?

nice score. My sunburst body has the same weird checking, so don't worry about that.

In most cases I dislike wah, but I've got one particular exception:

I got the impression of 'running out of money' by you asking for the strat pickups and mentioning the price of the pickguard, but I guess I was wrong.

No offense, but it seems like you just keep starting new projects instead of finishing one first, and then running out of money for them.

if Poison Ivy played it, fine. Otherwise, burn it.

imo, there's no reason not to turn this into a replica of his, as you'll never find a body more suited to it then this one.

routed wrote:

that kind of reminds me of how mine originally was when I got it last year...

those 70s ric copies are great. I have one; likely ibanez, but missing the truss rod cover so I don't know for sure. Set neck, and most details are there except for the double truss rods. Here's a pic with the rest of my collection:

maybe similar to some servicemen ripoffs, like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-GABBY-DUAL-SH ... _765wt_936

any pictures of the new shirt design?

Man that is a BEAUTIFUL collection. Love the look of that Ibanez bass and Hag II next to each other. thanks! The one thing that bugs me is the lack of logos on both of them. I'll be picking up a NOS decal for the hagstrom shortly, but finding a Ibanez ric truss rod cover would be a rather difficult...

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/9899/dsc03204h.jpg l-r: 70s Ibanez Ric 4001/4003 copy, 1966 Hagstrom II, 70s-00s parts Tele Custom (body is 70s Ibanez, neck 04 Squier, with some teisco and AVRI parts as well), 60s Teisco Parlor Acoustic, strung with ball end nylon strings. After doing the usual ...

laterallateral wrote:1969 Hagstrom II neck.

It's got the profile and taper of a shred machine's neck, with the radius, the look and the feel of a modern Fender.

YES. although in my case it's a 1966 Hagstrom II neck, with the finish completely worn off. So nice...

who cares, as long as you're upfront about it should you decide to sell (although anyone should be able to realize an actual comp duo didn't exist). looks great so far.

I dont think there is anything wrong with this guy breaking his Mustang up. My gripe is with folk that run a business on the basis of dismantling perfectly good guitars. Perhaps they are 'seconds' or something, i really dont know and i could be jumping the gun here but surely people can understand ...

my 70s mustang project body has had the bridge holes filled with wood/wood filler and re-drilled so that the mustang bridge can't rock at all. I'm guessing this was done in the 70s by the original
owner, so obviously this idea's been around a long time.