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My RobertOG Mustang Project (DONE - Pix/Video page 7)
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:48 pm
by Mike
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:53 pm
by robert(original)
hooray for bringing back threads.
boo! for shitty servers buttfucking us!
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:58 pm
by Mike
It will always be resurrected!
My folks are back this weekend so expect some more progress on Monday/Tuesday next week.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:46 am
by DGNR8
That's a nice board. Keep bringing it.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:09 am
by RumorsOFsurF
Looks great! What color are you going to finish it in?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:51 am
by RumorsOFsurF
Whoops, double post.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:58 am
by Haze
sexy stang is sexy...
what colour?
white?
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:53 am
by iCEByTes
holy shit dude
thats what i call hardcore shortscale monster
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:34 am
by mewithoutus
in b4 rahbro "thats not a mustang fuck shit assssss ill rub my shit on it cuz i hate gold guards but yours is tort ahhh fuck BEEERRRRRR hilary broke my computer oh fuck HOCKEY/FOOTBALL/BREAKINGSHIT"
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:19 am
by Mike
It's going to be either a Crisp (i..e not Yellowed Arctic White) White or a Translucent White so you can see the grain, I'm still unsure about it and have a little bit of fine tuning before I break the guitar down and start the finishing process. I should be able to get some strings on it and wire up the pickups in a couple of weeks so I'll make a demo video of it in it's "naked" condition then
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:48 pm
by timhulio
What's the story with the neck- is that some sort of tilt adjustment mechanism? Where'd ya get it/ how much?
Looks great so far.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:53 pm
by Mike
It's a Warmoth neck, they made it from scratch. took FOREVER though. They quoted 4-6 weeks and it took from September until March which is not 4-6 weeks.
http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/nec ... ustang_cbs
Price depends on what you go for. I went for a 24" Mustang neck with Large Headstock + Gloss finish, with installed nut and Vintage spec frets.
The side adjustment is a truss rod adjustment that doesn't involve pickguard removal/routing:
http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/nec ... sideadjust
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:07 pm
by timhulio
Hmmm that's actually not too expensive. I'd go for non-showy woods too. No need to be a ponce.
I'm getting a friend to make a repro neck with a playable profile/non jaggedy fret ends for one of these orrible Musima guitars. But that's another story...
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:17 pm
by Mike
yeah, I hate flamed shitty maple. I wanted something really simple and it is a great neck, just took a while to get here.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:43 pm
by RumorsOFsurF
Holy shit, 6 months! At least it turned out good. I fuckin' hate any flame or quilt maple, too.
Looking forward to seeing the finish and demo.
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:48 pm
by Mike
The first neck they made for me apparently had loads of orange peel issues and they kept on sanding down and reglossing it to no avail. They were pretty poor at keeping in touch with me but to their credit once I phoned them they turned it around very fast.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:38 pm
by astro
The grain on that body is simply phenomenal! It would look aces with a semi-transparent colour like Mary Kay White (I think that's what it's called...?) or blonde/butterscotch.
How heavy is the body? I have an ash bodied P-bass, which is as light as a feather (Well, almost. But it's as light as my basswood RI 'stang!). But my ash bodied mustang weighs a ton.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:49 pm
by Mike
It's fairly hefty like, you know when you're holding it. I'll know more when we whack the neck on it some time next week hopefully.
It's a great slab of wood - Robert really spoiled me with his selection.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:04 pm
by Bacchus
Nice.
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:18 pm
by robert(original)
its a single piece of ash, pretty rare to see a single piece of ash, well not really but i like to pretend, it looks pretty anyway,
i still think it would look really cool as a white wash sort of deal where you can still see the grain, but in a tasteful manor.
