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And i wouldnt do anything to that again, just play it hard as fuuuuch. make 32 songs on that stang. just as i did with my candy apple red mustang.

Before and after refin Mustang


Musicmaster bass and a Kala bass Uke - am I BANNED?

My daily strummer. Love this thing !!!

Swapped out the JB from my KC Mustang, here it is, and with my other Fender shortscales.

MIJ Telecaster, MIJ "smart size" Stratocaster, MIM Duosonic


Squier VM Jag, early 1960s Fender Duo-Sonic

2002 Mustang and a 1978 Musicmaster with a Red Lace Sensor dropped in it

othomas2 wrote:My daily strummer. Love this thing !!!

That's a nice jag dude. Finally someone with black pickups haha.

Thom wrote:Swapped out the JB from my KC Mustang

What's in its place?

Noisy Cat wrote:

Thom wrote:Swapped out the JB from my KC Mustang

What's in its place?

A Bare Knuckle VHII, it fits really well. Very clear.

Hey all. Joined the forums awhile back. Get to check it out here and there. Lots of great stuff on here.

Anyway, I've been migrating over to short scales ever since I inherited my '65 Mustang which I should probably post some time.

Here is the first Super Sonic I bought. It was a mess when I got it. Rasta paint job, rusty everything. Bad wiring. But the neck is super sweet on it.


Then I sent it out to MJT to get it painted in Comp Blue. One of my favorite colors ever. She's got a Duncan Custom in the bridge and either a '59 or Jazz in the neck. I forget. The mini switch puts the pickups in series for a nice woman tone.


Enjoy!

That Super Sonic is brilliant

Thanks. I love it so much it made some of my other guitars completely irrelevant, and jealous.

JordanD wrote:That Super Sonic is brilliant

Sure is!

How does two HBs in series sound?

I really like it. Of course, it can be too wooly for lower notes and such, but its great for high smooth singing leads.

RastaSonic wrote:Hey all. Joined the forums awhile back. Get to check it out here and there. Lots of great stuff on here.

Anyway, I've been migrating over to short scales ever since I inherited my '65 Mustang which I should probably post some time.

Here is the first Super Sonic I bought. It was a mess when I got it. Rasta paint job, rusty everything. Bad wiring. But the neck is super sweet on it.


Then I sent it out to MJT to get it painted in Comp Blue. One of my favorite colors ever. She's got a Duncan Custom in the bridge and either a '59 or Jazz in the neck. I forget. The mini switch puts the pickups in series for a nice woman tone.


Enjoy!

Ahh! You're the dude that got the rasta sonic. I was bidding against you on it

Yep. It's me. I got it. What's funny is I went and bought a black SS later on cause I love this one so much. There is just something about the neck and the weird shaped little body that works well for me. That ones got an Invader in it, which sounds a lot better than I thought. I expected a harsher high output sound. Turned out better than I expected.

Another vintage-modern partscaster with vintage DuoSonic body and neck plus new hardware and pickups. The body was refinished LPB by some previous owner. Not an award-winning finish but it looks good from ten feet. Plays like a dream. Again, a shout out to Louisville, KY luthier Ryan Scott of Scott Guitar Works for doing all the real work in making it come together.






Third neck still waiting on a body:

Looks sweet. I dig the blue.

I attached a vintage Musicmaster neck to my MIJ Telecaster. The basic premise is simple enough: You can bolt a strat-shaped neck into a tele-shaped neck pocket. The saddle location needs to move forward about 1/4" to allow the Musicmaster neck to intonate. There's plenty of room in the tele bridge assembly to allow the saddles to move forward 1/4" but the stock intonation screws appear to be too short. So, get new machine screws the right length and go at it.

In the case of a Fender Japan Telecaster the intonation screws were metric 3-mm diameter screws, which were hard to find locally in longer lengths. The USA version of the vintage tele bridge uses 6-32 machine screws, which are easy enough to find in various lengths. So I used some Nocaster saddles and longer machine screws from the hardware store. As a proof of concept I'd say it is a success. I think my guitar could use a luthier's hand in getting a really nice setup, and if I wanted a more vintage look to the bridge I think the stock intonation screws for a Fender bass guitar, which are 6-32 diameter and 1-7/16" long, would do the trick. It might also be a good idea to find slightly longer springs to go behind the saddles, as the extra distance makes the springs barely compressed as is.

2002 Mustang with new pickquard and a 1978 Musicmaster with a Red Lace Sensor dropped in it