Coyote projects. Serviceman & sitmaster(OG)

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:41 pm

New projects. I finally got around to doing something with my Serviceman I got a while back.

The pickups were dead for the most part. The frets were terribly not level, and the fretboard peeling up. I re glued the fretboard, and filed the frets level. It plays, but there's not much fret left in some places.
I used an original 66 jag pickguard that had been routed for buckers and threw some in. It rocks, but I want to find some vintage shortscale neck for it, and a real jag trem. The body is solid mahogany and the guitar sounds killer. Nice warm fat as hell tone.

Also and electric sitar is in the works, So far I have a jazzy body from robert, a scaloped mexi strat neck, and a dano style electric sitar bridge, and some weird random tailpeice I found. should be fun

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:28 pm

Kool. Its got teh John Squierz.
That bridge looks a bit suspect tho dude, any problems with it?

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 5:37 pm

It doesn't stay in tune to well, but that's more the trem's fault I think. Some day I'll get a jazzy or a TOm bridge, and a real trem.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:28 pm

That bridge is fucking hilarious. You can tell that's what it looked like in a picture to the forger.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:43 pm

I think they probably had a real jag to copy it off of. It was amazing how the real fender jag pickguard fit perfectly. all the screw holes were right on. I bet they made the bridge that way just because it was fast and easy to make it one bar. Far less small parts

fullerplast · Post by **fullerplast** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:21 pm

that pinoy servicemans guitar is great! i wish so bad i would have bought a truckload of them when i was a GI over there. All I bought was a flying - V with an inlaid Gibson logo. I traded it for a '60 Duo-Sonic in 1983.

The quality and authenticity varied widely on those... from being copied from a real one (as you suspect) to a catalog picture. Some had pickguards with the middle layer PAINTED on and tin strips OVER the pickguard instead of control plates... lol.

In the early 80s, the Jag and Jazzmaster were hard to find. I remember seeing a few in the dozens of shops around the base, but not many. As late as a few weeks ago they were still copying Strats and LPs... but thats about it. And not many of them had the fender logo on them, although a few did. One place had a bunch of pointy Kramer-type guitars... all with either Fender Strat or Gibson logos. Pretty hilarious.

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:54 pm

Have you taken the neck off the serviceman?? Their bolting system UNDER the neck plate(which had been reduced to simply a cover) is awesome.
<3 my Serviceman

I REALLY wish you were making a SITHmaster

fullerplast · Post by **fullerplast** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:26 pm

Sublimedo wrote:Have you taken the neck off the serviceman?? Their bolting system UNDER the neck plate(which had been reduced to simply a cover) is awesome.
<3 my Serviceman

I REALLY wish you were making a SITHmaster

Yeah... thats one of the main giveaways when you see "mystery bodies" for sale. I've no idea why they did that other then maybe not having access to long neck screws.. (?)

Has anyone seen the serviceman's Strat with the Mustang tail? Those are pretty weird...

edit: that jagblaster is GREAT!

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 12:38 am

LRC: i need pix of this body!!! its a fuckin work of art!

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:39 pm

Behold... teh sitmaster

Malamsteeeennnzzzzz

ahhh look. Mo rocca's shortscale touched it. mojorifffic

I'm thinking lipstick in the neck and a jazzy up in the bridge. Jazzy PG made from a record, and a jag control plate.

and a regular jazzy toggle

MaMo · Post by **MaMo** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:45 pm

Coyote -

well, if you've got about $1,500 lying around I've found your vintage neck solution:

fender jaguar neck

Mr.Ripley · Post by **Mr.Ripley** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:58 pm

that thing is amazing ('sept for the sea food fretboard) but i shall look past the horror

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:32 pm

sea food fret boards it turns out are amazingly fun to play on. I only got it, cause I found it for $25, and the frets are perfect and flat. couldn't pass that up. it actually has the most level frets of any of my guitars. I can get incredibly low action.

arcadedave · Post by **arcadedave** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:51 pm

LRC stock is up at the moment.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:13 pm

Nice work on teh scallops Coyote.

r40f · Post by **r40f** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:55 pm

where did you get a morgan grace autographed photo? i want one.

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:02 pm

light rail coyote wrote:Behold... teh sitmaster

Malamsteeeennnzzzzz

ahhh look. Mo rocca's shortscale touched it. mojorifffic

I'm thinking lipstick in the neck and a jazzy up in the bridge. Jazzy PG made from a record, and a jag control plate.

and a regular jazzy toggle

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!! dont cover this awesome graffiti up duder!

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:35 pm

Or that awesome multi-grain. What's the yaller guitar or the green one? Did I miss the part about string length and that crazy pickup?

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 10:47 pm

r40f wrote:where did you get a morgan grace autographed photo? i want one.

Haha it came with her last album. I'm actually going to start taking music lessons from her next thursday

r40f · Post by **r40f** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:24 am

light rail coyote wrote:
r40f wrote:where did you get a morgan grace autographed photo? i want one.
Haha it came with her last album. I'm actually going to start taking music lessons from her next thursday

i read about her giving lessons... that's very cool