Any Swingers around here?

cooter · Post by **cooter** » Thu May 19, 2011 2:46 pm

Not this:

Or this:

But this:

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu May 19, 2011 3:22 pm

The dashing NickS has one, sure he'll be along soon. Leave a trail of Werthers out for him...

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Thu May 19, 2011 4:54 pm

I had one of the middle ones....

It was my first car....

Bought it out of a barn with 60K miles on it in 1992. Fixed the body/interior. Painted it midnight blue with black top. Dropped a 440 six pack in it.

Awesome car.

Do not have the guitar through.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:27 pm

Robvon has one. It's not original, but he had the body made and I believe it's 24" scale.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Thu May 19, 2011 7:33 pm

mickie08 wrote:I had one of the middle ones....

I had the top one last night.

Wait, what?

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Thu May 19, 2011 8:14 pm

i have played 3 of them all of which were in chicago, and one of them was in rodvonbons reach of hand.

George · Post by **George** » Thu May 19, 2011 9:32 pm

benecol wrote:Leave a trail of Werthers out for him...

Hahaha

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Fri May 20, 2011 12:02 am

robert(original) wrote:i have played 3 of them all of which were in each of rodvonbons three hands.

I read that wrong. LEsdyxia again

Phil O'Keefe · Post by **Phil O'Keefe** » Fri May 20, 2011 8:39 am

Devi Ever owns one, but I don't think she posts here.

dub · Post by **dub** » Fri May 20, 2011 8:49 am

She did show up when people were talking about the fleeing crowd on the Godzilla pedals art that one time. Didn't stick around though.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Fri May 20, 2011 9:14 am

benecol wrote:trail of Werthers

Werthers? This was the most unkindest cut of all. You're dead to me now, you hear? D-E-A-D, DEAD.

>>Sven's Mustang/Swinger blog thread<<
Also >>Wanderingjew's Swinger Restoration thrad<<

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Fri May 20, 2011 11:16 am

The one I have is a reproduction with a few changes that make it more practical for me to play. It's got a NOHO body, 24" scale, a Toronado string through bridge and the pickup was moved from the neck to the bridge position.

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Boab · Post by **Boab** » Fri May 20, 2011 11:59 am

rodvonbon wrote:

That is far nicer than most of them. Colour is very cool.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue May 24, 2011 6:09 pm

NickS wrote:
benecol wrote:trail of Werthers
Werthers? This was the most unkindest cut of all. You're dead to me now, you hear? D-E-A-D, DEAD.

The sorrows of young Werther.

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Addam · Post by **Addam** » Tue May 24, 2011 7:08 pm

Werthers...
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Dunno why the written text is (I think) German?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue May 24, 2011 7:12 pm

AddamInsane wrote:Werthers...

Dunno why the written text is (I think) German?

Werthers

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu May 26, 2011 3:49 am

rodvonbon wrote:The one I have is a reproduction with a few changes that make it more practical for me to play. It's got a NOHO body, 24" scale, a Toronado string through bridge and the pickup was moved from the neck to the bridge position.

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Any chance I could a body trace of your Swinger? Is that a modified Mustang pickguard? How thick is the body?

rodvonbon · Post by **rodvonbon** » Fri May 27, 2011 10:24 pm

taylornutt wrote:Any chance I could a body trace of your Swinger? Is that a modified Mustang pickguard? How thick is the body?

I might be able to do a tracing and save it as a PDF file, but it wouldn't have any of the routes (only the outline). The pickguard was made for the guitar and I also have a bronco style guard for it too. The body is the same thickness as an Mustang.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Sat May 28, 2011 1:59 am

What years were these made?

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Sat May 28, 2011 3:33 am

rodvonbon wrote:
taylornutt wrote:Any chance I could a body trace of your Swinger? Is that a modified Mustang pickguard? How thick is the body?
I might be able to do a tracing and save it as a PDF file, but it wouldn't have any of the routes (only the outline). The pickguard was made for the guitar and I also have a bronco style guard for it too. The body is the same thickness as an Mustang.

If you could get me the outline, I could use my Musicmaster guitar and my Mustangs body/templates to figure out the rest. How do you convert the physical tracing to a PDF that prints to the correct scale?

I just recently got a Jag-stang template that's just an outline.