Page 3 of 4

Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:39 am
by HNB
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.

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

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 5:30 pm
by HNB
Been busy selling my house. Got time to get the new (old) bridge put on. Works great! I really like it.

Image
IMG_5680 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Image
IMG_5681 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Image
IMG_5682 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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

Image
IMG_5683 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 6:17 pm
by Thomas
Love that tort!!

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:12 pm
by oldcanuck
I too vote NO on the refin......

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 3:51 pm
by HNB
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.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 3:34 pm
by oldcanuck
As we all know.... 'old wood is good wood'..... but when you can see it..... it also looks good too.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 6:25 pm
by dragnet99
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.

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:23 pm
by stewart
needs paint

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:18 pm
by spirograph
needs pink paint

Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:27 pm
by Awstin
Needs a nice sunburst

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 3:58 am
by HNB
It was sunburst. No idea if it was a nice burst though. I can only see what is in the cavities. :)

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:40 pm
by YuriK
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.

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 1:44 pm
by Awstin
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 5:32 am
by HNB
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.

Image

Not perfectly flat, but WAY better.
Image

Image

Image

(This was it before.)
Image

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 10:36 am
by Awstin
Nice man. Think baking would work with pearl? My '65 Stang guard is shrinking a bit.

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:04 pm
by HNB
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.

Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:34 pm
by Awstin
Oh ok. It's not that bad. Just a bit of shrinking around the screws. No lifting yet.

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 5:33 pm
by Thomas
Very nice job. I would have been paranoid that it'd burst into flames or something.

Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 11:28 pm
by HNB
I was TERRIFIED I was going to ruin it. LOL

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 9:17 pm
by meltedbuzzbox
thats a great looking guitar sir!