NGD 1964 Fender Jaguar

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:39 am

Not yet. It is stalled because I am getting my house ready to possibly sell.

I also need to buy some sandpaper still. Little details. It's new/old bridge arrived today though. It is a 1964 Mustang bridge. Should work great and match it better than the generic Jaguar bridge I have on at the moment.

1964 Mustang bridge for my 1964 Jaguar. <3 Perfect. by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:30 pm

Been busy selling my house. Got time to get the new (old) bridge put on. Works great! I really like it.

IMG_5680 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

IMG_5681 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

IMG_5682 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

With the flash you can see how rad the tort is.

IMG_5683 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:17 pm

Love that tort!!

oldcanuck · Post by **oldcanuck** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:12 pm

I too vote NO on the refin......

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:51 pm

Still on the fence on the refin. It has already been stripped of it's finish anyways so I don't think it would hurt it value wise to have a well done paint job, but I also don't mind the natural look.

oldcanuck · Post by **oldcanuck** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:34 pm

As we all know.... 'old wood is good wood'..... but when you can see it..... it also looks good too.

dragnet99 · Post by **dragnet99** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:25 pm

I love a brightly colored Jag, but the finish you've already got bears a striking resemblance to Elvis Costello's famous Jazzmaster, which I think is pretty damn cool:

http://i953.photobucket.com/albums/ae12 ... ster11.jpg

It looks like you've already got a pretty jaw-dropping collection of Jag colors, so I think my vote would go for keeping this one as-is for novelty's sake. It's pretty unique.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:23 pm

needs paint

spirograph · Post by **spirograph** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:18 pm

needs pink paint

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:27 pm

Needs a nice sunburst

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 3:58 am

It was sunburst. No idea if it was a nice burst though. I can only see what is in the cavities.

YuriK · Post by **YuriK** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:40 pm

I wouldn't paint it.It's not everyday that you see a blonde jag and it looks pretty cool. Blonde guitars are great cuz you know youre getting the bestwood.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:44 pm

ykk211 wrote:I wouldn't paint it.It's not everyday that you see a blonde jag and it looks pretty cool. Blonde guitars are great cuz you know youre getting the bestwood.

Eh. I would get it refinished professionally with the original sunburst. You can still see the wood.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:32 am

The pickguard had shrunken around the switches before I got it and it was bugging me that it was lifted up and going over the switch plate, so today I took the guard off, baked it to flatten it, and used a small file to enlarge the hole so it would lay flat. Went PERFECT. Looks better than ever.

Not perfectly flat, but WAY better.

(This was it before.)

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:36 am

Nice man. Think baking would work with pearl? My '65 Stang guard is shrinking a bit.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:04 pm

It wasn't to fix any shrinking, just to flatten it. If the guard was curled up, it would work. I did 210 in the oven for fifteen minutes. Had it between two heavy pieces of wood to press it flat. If you have glass baking trays, those work well.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:34 pm

Oh ok. It's not that bad. Just a bit of shrinking around the screws. No lifting yet.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 5:33 pm

Very nice job. I would have been paranoid that it'd burst into flames or something.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:28 pm

I was TERRIFIED I was going to ruin it. LOL

meltedbuzzbox · Post by **meltedbuzzbox** » Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:17 pm

thats a great looking guitar sir!