the '72 compstang is here!!!

[Thomas]

Aww poor 76 stuck out of the way!! You should send it to me.

[Sublimedo]

QUASI TWINS. Only my comptang ain't vintage.

[Thomas]

Speaking of undergaurd weirdness, my 70's Musicmaster had turned the finish green under the guard. This is a photo of an old photo of it when I'd put an earlier (nicer shaped) Oick guard on it. You can see the green at the top in the shape of the old guard. This is the one that had the 'A' neck.

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[stewart]

QUASI TWINS. Only my comptang ain't vintage.

aw, your ash one looks like it's had a rough life, poor thing!

Speaking of undergaurd weirdness, my 70's Musicmaster had turned the finish green under the guard. This is a photo of an old photo of it when I'd put an earlier (nicer shaped) Oick guard on it. You can see the green at the top in the shape of the old guard. This is the one that had the 'A' neck.

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that's bizarre. i do think those scratchplate look miles better though, that's what i've done with mine.

[ultratwin]

i am going to Robroe you.

FIX'D.

[stewart]

some daylight pics if anyone's interested... i'm looking at it right now and i swear it's green/turquoise but the camera just WILL NOT pick it up. click for full size...

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aw.. don't they look nice? now i just need a red one, haha... if you look closely at the duo-sonic you can see my ingenious method to keep the switches from being knocked onstage- rolling tobacco filters cut to size and wedged in. better than gaffa tape and much less noticeable.

[Mike]

You bastard.

[stewart]

oops, i forgot, i bought a repro bridge cover for vanity purposes. i do have a white tipped vibrato bar somewhere but i can't find it. the guard warping is bothering me less but it still has to go...

[Thomas]

I'm having a drool-fest here! I love when the old clearcoat starts to green up a bit, I've seen a LPB Jag before that was blue if you looked at it in some lights and halfway to Ocean turq in others. Scrumptious.

[stewart]

that's what this one's like. thank god for photoshop! right now it looks more or less like this-



which is quite different to what it's like in the pics or under electric light.

[Thomas]

This geetah certainly has a whole lot of awesome for the price!!

[stewart]

honestly, you wait 3 years for a blue competition mustang and two come along at once...

linketh

looks to be in similar, if mildly better, condition as mine (apart from the guard ). his serial number is 330676, mine's 373559. mine was £350/$550 cheaper though. yuss!

i was bidding on a vintage guard to replace this one but the way the dollar/pound ratio is at the moment things are starting to get expensive and it was getting out of hand, so i think i'll have to wait a while. i want one that isn't all cracked and knackered, i suppose i'll just have to be patient.

[stewart]

finally got the replacement guard and fitted it after some customs/post office shenanigans (the sender will be receiving a stiff email from me pointing out his fuckwittery) and i'm v. pleased. a nice flat scratchplate, yippee! it's from a '65, so the pearloid is markedly different, and i had to file a millimeter or so off the upper neck pocket bit to get it to fit, but fit it does...

a couple of crappy pictures, but it's dark...

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compared to the old one i think it's a vast improvement.

[Hurb]

That looks awful! you had better send it to me.

[Reece]

Wut. I somehow missed the entire second and third pages of this thread before :/

Looks brilliant.

[stewart]

That looks awful! you had better send it to me.

i was tempted to say "i'll swap you for your vintage jag", but then i realised if you accepted i'd have half of shortscale after my blood... haha.

[Mike]

Fantastic.

[TideBleach]

i love old comp stangs, one of my favourite guitars ever