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Mike wrote:What pickups are you going for?

I was going to just use some AVRI Jag pickups I have, then I spoke to Peter Leonard (The Pickup Wizard) about pickups for my next project...



...and he's wound me a set of AlnicoIII jag pickups for the bridge and middle, and an AlnicoV one for the neck.

That project will be a long time in the making, so in the meantime I'll have two of those pickups in this. I've just put a pair of his CBS JM pickups in my Jazzmaster and they're amazing. Bloody cheap, too, considering. $140 shipped to the UK for the 3 Jag pickups.

Dead spider aside, the colour is fantastic. Great job spraying it. The entire neck looks great, but I particularly like the binding and the headstock detail. Very nicely done on both.

One thing I like about your photos is you take the effort to accentuate the parts that us guitar nerds like. The neatness of the routing or the different shades of the colour. Most people tend to take guitar photos in a way that would make the average person think it's a nice photo. Yours do that to some extent but they mostly unapologetically say 'this one is for all you guitar nerds out there on the internet'.

I'll just give you guys a quick photo update on this one. I strung it up with a prototype guard, then didn't have chance to do anything with it for a few months. Now I've made it a new anodised aluminium guard, I've replaced the green on the headstock with black, and it's just waiting on some white tuners and I'll be done:
















The 1Meg push-pull on the volume knob is a jag-style bass-cut, and the one on the tone knob is a phase switch for the bridge pickup. The rotary does bridge/parallel/neck/series. Otherwise it's stock Jag wiring.

That looks AMAZING. Cracking job.

Agreed - yours are the best project guitars I've ever seen.

benecol wrote:Agreed - yours are the best project guitars I've ever seen.

I'd have to agree.

Wish I had your skills

it looks great but what happened to the middle pickup you were planning?

lorez wrote:it looks great but what happened to the middle pickup you were planning?

In that picture at the top? That's a completely different guitar - a replica of a Yamaha SG-3 I'm planning. That was what I originally bought these Peter Leonard pickups I'm using for, but I've stolen them for this in the meantime.

Thanks all for the kindness, btw.

i think it looks great, but the control plate area looks cramped.

really nice.

Yeah, I know what you mean - I have some white Jag knobs that might work better. Hang on...

...no, they look shit. The ones I have are a bit wonky, and not white enough, and they're too plain I think.

I've been watching the progress of this and think it looks amazing.
Love the white rollers, very classy.

Looks awesome Ben, look forward to giving it a strum if it's done by the time I pop round.

I'm so in awe of your work... I wish I had the intricate skills you do.

Can't see many on this earth that would go to such lengths to perfect things as much as you do.

I think you need to show all the pics to give it real justice. Loved the pickguard step by step shots

This is my first time reading this thread and may I just say, that is an amazing looking guitar. Really great work man.

that guitar is sex. amazing job.

ohyeahfuzzbear wrote:This is my first time reading this thread and may I just say, that is an amazing looking guitar. Really great work man.

Same here.

This is an incredible piece of guitar; fine, fine work man!

Thanks for the encouragement!

Couldn't for the life of me find conversion bushings to fit 1/4" Kluson shafts in my 10mm F-tuner holes, so I've just had to drill some 6mm ones out to fit:



Result:





Just needs the neck back on and stringing up now - completed pics later today, all being well.

Here we go:

Back to the Future II shot:

















And with the first one, which is back for a pickup and guard change (and a sensible effectectomy) before it goes off to the US.

Amazing.

oh man, this is perfect.