Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:35 pm
Thanks man, but keep in mind some of what I've posted here isn't really based on "facts" so much as just my own observations.tribi9 wrote:Awesome, I've learned a lot from your excellent post.
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:36 pm
You know more about Competition Mustangs than I imagine anyone who wasn't working in the factory at the time ever will. Don't be shy of it, you have some invaluable experience.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:52 pm
I take your observations as "fact".rodvonbon wrote:Thanks man, but keep in mind some of what I've posted here isn't really based on "facts" so much as just my own observations.tribi9 wrote:Awesome, I've learned a lot from your excellent post.
You're the "Comp. Mustang Master" IMO.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:11 am
You'se guys are making me blush, but I do appreciate it.
I don't really think about all this stuff too often, I've kind of filed it away in my head as useless knowledge, but as I was writing about each guitar it all started pouring out. My friends and my wife don't really get the love I have for these guitars so I don't really talk about them too often. Even when I go to guitar shows with friends that collect guitars too I kind of zone out while they talk about and examine every guitar they walk past. Me?, I breeze past all the others and seek out the Fender shortscales.
I'm glad I found a place I can contribute some of this useless knowledge.
I don't really think about all this stuff too often, I've kind of filed it away in my head as useless knowledge, but as I was writing about each guitar it all started pouring out. My friends and my wife don't really get the love I have for these guitars so I don't really talk about them too often. Even when I go to guitar shows with friends that collect guitars too I kind of zone out while they talk about and examine every guitar they walk past. Me?, I breeze past all the others and seek out the Fender shortscales.
I'm glad I found a place I can contribute some of this useless knowledge.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:20 am
I also dug through some old pictures and found these of guitar #5. They were probably taken some time around '93. It was a little worn even then and the rest happened so gradually, but I do remember the paint just started falling off it around 1999. I would get done playing and it would be all over my forearm.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:24 am
LEATHER PANTS!
You are the Horse Whisperer... That is, if you also fucks wit Broncos...
You are the Horse Whisperer... That is, if you also fucks wit Broncos...
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:27 am
What can I say, I'm a sexy fuckerNinja Mike 808 wrote:LEATHER PANTS! FTW!!!!
You are the Horse Whisperer... That is, if you also fucks wit Broncos...
I've owned a few Broncos and have a couple in my stable now.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:40 am
I also found this picture of a '74 Mustang I had. I liked Joe Strummers Tele when it was white and had a black stripe going horizontally on it so I did the same thing over yellow lacquer. The picture is around 1989 or 90 from what I remember and was partial inspiration for the gold top. If you look close you can see it has a custom black pearl pick guard with one pickup on the bridge that I had to mail order (no internets then). This is one guitar I wish I could get back, I think I sold it for 200 bucks.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 3:00 am
When I used to wear leather pants you could see people thinking "Wow that guy looks hot in leather pants" if I wore them now they'd think "There should be a law against old, fat bastards wearing leather pants" That black stripe kinda reminds me of the 80s when youd see a guitar in a shop window and think "Cool Van Halen paint job" but when you got up close it became apparent that someone had got a red guitar and stuck lengths of black and white electrical tape on it"
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 8:12 am
Jus wear em baggy as fuck... Then people will say "why's that fat guy in a trash bag" instead of threatening you with a lawsuit.Neil wrote:When I used to wear leather pants you could see people thinking "Wow that guy looks hot in leather pants" if I wore them now they'd think "There should be a law against old, fat bastards wearing leather pants" That black stripe kinda reminds me of the 80s when youd see a guitar in a shop window and think "Cool Van Halen paint job" but when you got up close it became apparent that someone had got a red guitar and stuck lengths of black and white electrical tape on it"
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:59 am
rodvonbon wrote:Here we have guitar 4
It's a reissue of the previous three. I'm not a big fan of the reissues, but I am quite taken with this one. It's got a standard '69 reissue body finished in Capri orange which is a little more orange than the originals. The neck is closer to the baseball bat contour than the other '69 reissue I have. The headstock is matching with a black and gold custom contour decal (yuck) and sports kluson white tuners. I replaced the horrid white pearl pickguard with a plain white one. It still has a factory set up and the action is a little high. I shim the necks on my guitars 1 or 2 degrees and use .09s to get low easy action. I need to get around to doing that for this one. Over all the build quality seems some what better on this guitar than other reissues I've played. I don't know what it is about it, though it may be psychological, who knows.
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Here's a bump to a great thread and a question to rodvonbon: I am currently looking into getting an new orange Competition Mustang from Japan. All of the pictures I've seen of the orange models seem to have a nonmatching headstock (as opposed to the other competition colors). Is your model custom or did they come that way at one point?
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:08 am
Not Rodvonbon, but he gave me a pickguard for free once
RIs have all come with and without matching stocks, but never had the proper white decal, if you care about that. Fender Japan has made numerous varieties of comp. Stang at different times in any case, in color/stripe combinations that are and aren't vintage... Which is totally cool, except that every guitar should have a matched stock. Like, ever, lol.
RIs have all come with and without matching stocks, but never had the proper white decal, if you care about that. Fender Japan has made numerous varieties of comp. Stang at different times in any case, in color/stripe combinations that are and aren't vintage... Which is totally cool, except that every guitar should have a matched stock. Like, ever, lol.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:18 am
Are you talking about the '68/'69's or the reissue?deaner33 wrote:Here's a bump to a great thread and a question to rodvonbon: I am currently looking into getting an new orange Competition Mustang from Japan. All of the pictures I've seen of the orange models seem to have a nonmatching headstock (as opposed to the other competition colors). Is your model custom or did they come that way at one point?
My Orange reissue came with the matching headstock. It looked (for a while at least) that most of the Japenese market competition Mustangs were matching. I also just bough a competition fiesta red neck and body off ebay a couple of days ago that has matching head :]
I personally have some kind of obsession with it.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:22 am
I care and it irks me to no endJagermeister wrote: but never had the proper white decal, if you care about that.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:50 am
The reissues. I think it may be that the matching & nonmatching headstocks on the orange ones are hard to tell based on the limited pictures available.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:15 am
The '73 RI has a matching headstock: http://www.fenderjapan.co.jp/fender/200 ... ustang.htm
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:33 am
Hehe....I've looked at those before and always found it funny, because Fender discontinued matching headstocks well before '73.DanHeron wrote:The '73 RI has a matching headstock: http://www.fenderjapan.co.jp/fender/200 ... ustang.htm
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:20 am
That's what's confusing. Check this one out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=015DanHeron wrote:The '73 RI has a matching headstock: http://www.fenderjapan.co.jp/fender/200 ... ustang.htm
The headstock doesn't appear to be matching.
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:31 pm
I have no idea why the comp orange one is the only one without the matching head, but it deffinately isn't matching on that ebay listing.deaner33 wrote:That's what's confusing. Check this one out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=015DanHeron wrote:The '73 RI has a matching headstock: http://www.fenderjapan.co.jp/fender/200 ... ustang.htm
The headstock doesn't appear to be matching.
I looked on http://www.ikebe-gakki.com/ as well, they also have the 73 ri in comp orange, but without the matching headstock!
Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:38 pm
The ebay description basically spells it out too:
COLOR:
OCR (old Candy apple red/matching head)
OLB (old lake placid blue/matching head)
FRD (fiesta red/matching head)
OTM (ocean turquoise metallic/matching head)
CPO (capri orange)
OWH (olympic white/matching head)
COLOR:
OCR (old Candy apple red/matching head)
OLB (old lake placid blue/matching head)
FRD (fiesta red/matching head)
OTM (ocean turquoise metallic/matching head)
CPO (capri orange)
OWH (olympic white/matching head)