Squier CV '70s Jaguar demo and ramble

blane · Post by **blane** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:05 pm

The examples related to what I think you called "the sympathetic vibrations" the Jaguar produces were well done and enlightening.

Side note: Your latest EP has a cool vibe and reminded me of The Man on the Burning Tightrope by Firewater.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:38 pm

WTF, BLANE!

Where the hell have YOU been?!

blane · Post by **blane** » Fri Aug 07, 2020 9:53 pm

Doog wrote:WTF, BLANE!

Where the hell have YOU been?!

You know, just doing that old man thing. I always peek my head in when Squire does something interesting. I watched your demo today, so the least I could do was leave a note and check out your new tunes.

Post by **Doog** » Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:27 am

It's good to hear from you, man!

Thanks for the kind words, I'll be checking out that track you namechecked Ã°Å¸â€˜Å’

edit: ooh yeah, very Tom Waits/Krusty The Clown haunted circus, nice! I'm trying to get into writing more kinda old spooky Eastern European folk, will hopefully take it somewhere a bit more original at some point

blane · Post by **blane** » Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:34 pm

Doog wrote:It's good to hear from you, man!

Thanks for the kind words, I'll be checking out that track you namechecked Ã°Å¸â€˜Å’

edit: ooh yeah, very Tom Waits/Krusty The Clown haunted circus, nice! I'm trying to get into writing more kinda old spooky Eastern European folk, will hopefully take it somewhere a bit more original at some point

That track specifically isn't the best, I meant more the whole record. The singer/songwriter started with a lot of eastern european/punk/alternative on his first record, then started moving towards more circus/world music in his later releases. It's a cool band, I'm sure you could find some gems you'd like.

Post by **Doog** » Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:26 am

Nice one, will add it to my Spotify.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:39 am

Inspired by my boy Jorden-Hurb's masterful upgrades and tweaking of his various Squiereses, I figured I'd try staining the pale Indian laurel fretboard on the Jag, and took delivery of a few 'samples' (heh-heh-heh, suckers...).

Some before photos:

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So the water-based stuff didn't work out at all (possibly user error, and lack of supplied directions), but the oil-based stuff worked out great; 1 coat dried for 5 hours, then another dried overnight. Ended-up using the MAHAGONI, and made it look as if it'd attended a GG Allin gig in the process:

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(Ebay link for anyone interested)

And some afters/during-s:

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Not great photos (it's gloomy as fuck outside) but good enough. The OG wood itself was quite patchy colourwise, so the stained version reflects that; maybe a restain in the future would help balance it a bit more. Either way, it dfinitely makes the whole thing vibe a lot nicer, and I don't think I even quite used the whole sachet for both coats; not bad for a few quid!

Post by **Hurb** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:05 am

Looks great !

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:10 am

It looks much better. I recently lemon oiled the fretboard on my strat and it became much darker which is strange cause I had oiled it before numerous times with the oil from the same bottle and it never got permanently dark but this time it totally did

Post by **Doog** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:35 am

That's interesting, I found lemon oil didn't really get absorbed by this fretboard, and the instructions to NEVER LEAVE IT ON, NO MATTER WHAT made me too nervy to leave it on overnight in case it exploded.

Maybe the weather?

I might give it a go on one of my dryboys in the guitar rack though, at least on a single fret or something

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:06 pm

Now that I'm looking at it, it doesn't seem super dark, just like your average rosewood fretboard should be a little bit on a brighter side but it used to be even paler like milk chocolate

Maybe the oil gone rank or something. This bottle is 7 or 8 years old

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:16 pm

Looks good Doog, nice work.

KillerGuitarRigs · Post by **KillerGuitarRigs** » Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:14 pm

Looks badass.

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:27 am

Doog wrote:That's interesting, I found lemon oil didn't really get absorbed by this fretboard

On my CV Mustang the fingerboard feels like it has some kind of lacquer or something similar on it. There is something they put on, so I'm not surprised lemon oil doesn't do anything because it doesn't go to the bare wood.

I'm thinking Kiwi would have worked as well if you wanted it to look like rosewood.

Post by **Doog** » Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:39 am

But the oil-based stain did work soooooooo

Also: I'm not putting shoe polish on my guitar when there's a fit-for-purpose option

Post by **dots** » Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:49 pm

lookin good, doog!

(^that's 3 queen annes, too!)