SS guard for Jagstang?

GreenKnee · Post by **GreenKnee** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:31 pm

Lookin where I could buy, or have made for me, a jagstang pick guard cut for 2 single coil pickups. I just cannot get on with hum bucker, I like a really clear sound, especially when driven, and this just isn't doing it for me. Once I've got one I'll be on the hunt for some vintage mustang pickups, hopefully identical sounding to the ones in my mustang

Jack

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 12:34 pm

why don't you just buy a mustang one?

GreenKnee · Post by **GreenKnee** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:05 pm

I've looked into that and they don't fit. They have an explanation and photos of it on jag-stang.com

http://www.jag-stang.com/faq/jagstang/c ... -jagstang/

Jack

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 2:32 pm

ah right. maybe ask robert(original), he had a thread going where he was taking orders a while ago.

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36720

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:57 pm

I always thought a Jag-stang with Mustang pickups would be nice. You definitely have to go custom. HotRod was trying to move his Jag-stang and it had a Custom pickguard with just a neck pup. Maybe he could sell it to you and you could add the hole for the Bridge pup. Just a thought.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Wed Dec 01, 2010 6:37 pm

taylornutt wrote:I always thought a Jag-stang with Mustang pickups would be nice. You definitely have to go custom. HotRod was trying to move his Jag-stang and it had a Custom pickguard with just a neck pup. Maybe he could sell it to you and you could add the hole for the Bridge pup. Just a thought.

that's going to robroe

Also, by the looks of that picture a Mustang guard and file looks like it will do the trick.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:53 pm

the compstang guards do fit jag-stangs, and actually they fit better than og jag-stang guard, i used a compstang template to make aens single coiled jagstang.
i was taking orders and having someone else fill them, but she flaked out and i haven't gotten anyone competent enough to work the router.

DanHeron · Post by **DanHeron** » Sun Dec 05, 2010 12:52 am

Looking at those pics of the JS + mustang guard there isn't much difference.. I have seen the same difference in 2 mustang guards. Also at the end it says the mustang guard is slightly too long between the neck and bridgeplate for the jagstang. This exact thing happened with my mustang guard and 69 RI MUSTANG, so I had to cut it down. I would just get a Mustang guard and cut it down if i were you.

GreenKnee · Post by **GreenKnee** » Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:10 pm

Thanks for the info and tips

Anybody any idea where I can get a competition mustang guard? I can only find ones for Fender '65 reissues, I can get a warmoth SS jagstang guard, but apparently they're only for warmoth bodies, and so I'm taking that as it wouldn't fit a Fender?

Jack

Blue Cool · Post by **Blue Cool** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:55 am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Warmoth basically a fender replacement parts company? If so, you should be ok.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 2:37 am

I wish someone could work a router here. It's a losing prop because you're pretty much asking for perfection and almost free labor. It's mainly good for guards you just cannot otherwise get.

I have been tempted by this LITTLE GUY. Because oh in the hells YEAH! All routers are dangerous and unwieldy, but this one is sized for guards, binding, and pickups, for $100. I am not going to be making fucking counters and shit.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:22 am

Blue Cool wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Warmoth basically a fender replacement parts company?

Technically no, they're licensed to copy the body shapes but they make their own stuff compatible with Warmoth, not Fender. You get happy accidents from all the specs various manufacturers share, and their Strat guards (maybe others) are made to fit older squier/mim/us fender (they will tell you which guitars you can expect it to fit), but they're not a replacement parts company really and state all over their page that you shouldn't expect their stuff to retrofit your guitar.

I see in pics that their Jazzmaster pickguard design stops short of the bridge posts, without the bridge sitting on pickguard as it does with the Fender Jazzmaster. I don't know about the Stang guards specifically but I doubt they fit, especially given the variables in various Japanese Fender Mustangs' guards.

Blue Cool · Post by **Blue Cool** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:26 am

Oh. I did not know that. Sorry about the misconception. The more you know, I guess.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:35 am

Think a good link is this one: pickguardian.com

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:10 pm

This one has his own dog:

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stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Dec 14, 2010 12:55 pm

Tee hee!

KPI · Post by **KPI** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:20 am

1. Yes it is possible
2. The jag-stang & mustang guards are NOT interchangeable
3. You will need a new guard cut by someone
4. if you want to have the single-coil bridge placement the same as a mustang
5. you will need to route your jag-stangs bridge cavity to have
6. teh kurdtz
7. profit

8. teh kurdtz yoo fooking n00000b

9. rawk teh kurrrdtz

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:20 am

... for doing not so: my jagstang has a sd-jeff beck humbucker in bridgeposition. With the switch i can use both coils or only one. So i have singlecoilsound on my jagstang. In out-of-phase it comes as sharp as a mustang...

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:03 pm

Mezzio gave me a pickguard off a musicmaster II from the 60s. the thing fits perfect. i didn't have to do shit with it.

mezzio is and forever will be the fucking man

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:05 pm

DGNR8 wrote:I wish someone could work a router here. It's a losing prop because you're pretty much asking for perfection and almost free labor. It's mainly good for guards you just cannot otherwise get.

I have been tempted by this LITTLE GUY. Because oh in the hells YEAH! All routers are dangerous and unwieldy, but this one is sized for guards, binding, and pickups, for $100. I am not going to be making fucking counters and shit.

holy shit. its taking me everything i have in self control not to go to home depot and buy this thing right now. i didn't know they existed this small