I look forward to seeing where this discussion goes. I picked up a MM recently because I wanted that one-pickup-in-the-neck-position sound--my strat was nearly always in the neck position. I just dig that sound...

A couple weeks ago I picked up a 1957 Musicmaster body, neck, neckplate, tuners, and pickguard. It was refinished red-ish, but it looked like a previous owner had started to sand down the refinish. I finished sanding/prepping and went with a color that reminds me of Gilmour's 0001 strat. The tuners ...

Wow--that neck is out of this world. Congrats!

Congrats. I'm a fan of the natural/rw look, but I bet it would look great refinished in black, too.