After some respray and wetsanding, I fixed the chips to my satisfaction. It looks really good and my finishing skills are improving.
I went ahead and finished it out with tuners, ferrules and string tree.
Only wiring and assembly remain before rocking can commence. I actually have already drilled and attached the control plate, pickguard and tremolo after drilling out the holes with my drill press.
I wired everything up, put on the neck and strings and I now have a working guitar. The only issue I currently have is when the bridge pickup switch is in the rear position, I get no sound. It works when the switch is in the forward position. I will check it the next time it take off the pickguard. I need to adjust the bridge height and set the intonation of the saddles
I will post some pics tomorrow. First time I wired a guitar from scratch so I am stoked it worked the first time. Good times.
Bridge height and intonation are fixed. I still need to get under the hood and fix the switch and see why the bridge pickup leans forward.Functionally, the guitar is finished. Check it out.
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I took the pickguard off to investigate why the bridge pickup only works in forward position. The white wire wasn't secure so I resolder it back. Couldn't find any other wire problems. The pickguard was in a little bit of a bind causing the bridge pickup to lean forward. Fixed it and reassembled.
Unfortunately, the problem with the switch remains. Could be a bad switch. Luckily, I can get all the Mustang sounds since the Neck pickup works in both positions. It just doesn't have the extra redundancy.
Sounds really good now that I have the pickup heights fixed. The pickups are like 5.72 and 5.77 so not much difference. I think these really might be vintage NOS Mustang pickups.
The neck feels amazing. Wider C profile like my Jaguar neck and the nitro finish makes it feel like my AVRI Jaguar as well. I just looks and feels like a vintage player which is what I was going for.
I plan to demo soon along with the Competition Stang. It will be interesting to see how different these two guitars will sound.
Put the switch in that back position and check the lugs with your multimeter. The two back lugs should be in continuity, or have zero resistance. If not then it's a bad switch.
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I'm running in monoscope right now. I can't read multiple dimensions of meta right now
that's looks badass... who the hell do you know who has a black top with a sunburst back? She's got character for sure, you need to repost that pix of her all chopped up with holes in her.
I have been playing the Mullet-Stang and I just have not liked the feel of the neck. It felt orange-peely I noticed I had gotten the headstock glossy smooth, but the neck was lacking.
So I got out my sanding pads and water, started with 1800 grit and worked all the way down to 12000 grit. The orange peel feel is gone, still looks fantastic and it plays like a different guitar now.
This neck refinish has definitely been a learning process, but I am glad I sanded it and finished it out proper.
Pens wrote:Put the switch in that back position and check the lugs with your multimeter. The two back lugs should be in continuity, or have zero resistance. If not then it's a bad switch.
I have not had a chance to open her up yet, but I did notice I get a little pop sound when I flick the switch to the back position. Would it pop if the switch was bad?
Based on the wiring diagram, the jumpers from the front position to the back position is where I will check to see if maybe it's not making a good connection.
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I was jamming with a friend and I was showing him how the switch didn't work in the back position and it worked! Sorta. So I did wire it correctly but sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
I am guessing there is something wrong internally with the switch. I will need to buy another new switch for it.
I am in love with this guitar and I have taken it off the market. I am loving both my Mustang guitars loads and the Mullet-stang is fantastic as the vintage Mustang while the Comp-stang is the Rock Mustang. Besides I don't want to break up the pair. They look so nice together.
Doug wrote:Thanks for sending that demo vid, Taylor. Good range of sounds...more than just yer amp doin that?
So what amp? Peripherals?
I use a Marshall JTM30 (1x12). it has an emulated XLR output that goes out to a Digidesign MBox2. Then it goes straight into my Mac via Garageband. Record the video in Photobooth and audio in Garageband simultaneously and then sync them up using iMovie.
