h8mtv wrote:that is an ugly bastard.
Yes indeed, sometimes I wonder why fender even agrees to the people that present a model like that, and than the price, this J Mascis squier that I am modifying is just to my liking , I never put down the Mascis squier "stock" , there are just a few tiny things that wouldn't cost a thing more for fender to produce to make this squier an actual duplicate of a Mexican classic player, like the truss rod at the headstock, or the fender imprint on the tailpiece with a term lock, aside from those two things, the squier Mascis is basically a mex jazzmaster, trust me I know, they put a lot of work into this guitar stock,
Do you guys have any idea how much laquer the neck has, it's satin,, not shiny, but as I first started to score the line down the sides of the neck, it started chiping away of layers of polyurethane I believe , so I had to first sand down to the wood before scoring the outline of the bindings and than carve away, to make it look professional, to be honest, I've bound about 19 necks so far this past year and never had to sand threw the laquer first or else it chipped in evenly, so just by that alone, they put a lot of effort into painting the neck, shows me its pretty good quality, even throw I undid their effort to my own, but that's what fun is to me, aside from playing the guitars and feeling the accomplishment of the final product done by me,
I also fixed the problem with the electronics, the toggle wires where touching each other, I don't know if that was the complete reason for thousands of recalls on these, but I figured out my electrical problem for this guitar,
I'm past the blocks, and channel for bindings, tonight I super duper glue the bindings in, and tommorrpw scrape flush with sides and top, and side dot work, than restain and polyurethane, after refretting, I say another 2 days and this will be ready to go to its new owner to enjoy
