ShortScale.org

Sorry stole this from another forum, but I thought it was cool... click for big images on external link.

Hope this isn't a duplicate post here.

http://kurtsguitarsnow.blogspot.com/

We got to see IRL in Seattle with Light Rail Coyote!







In a weird way, it was a shortscale mecca. If this guitar didn't exist, many of us wouldn't be here.

That's an interesting site, as is kurtsequipment.com.

I didn't know about this Bobby Costello kid getting one of Kurt's Mustangs as a gift - and now his family are trying to sell it? That's made me pretty angry; how could you ever sell something like that? F##k sake.

Is that a hot rails in the bridge? i though this guitar was stock apart from a tune o matic
Is it still possible to order these from japan?

i got to strum the strings on his og blue jag-stang at the rock n roll hall of fame, aparently it is behind glass now, or there is an alarm or something.
its been about 6 years ago now that i was last there(wow)

i saw the same jagstang rob. i didn't try to touch it, it just kinda made me sad.

im pretty sure hilary took a photo of me with it. but its back in buffalo

by the way, thanks for posting the link to this blog

kept me occupied for a while while shad is passed out

Noirie. wrote:Is that a hot rails in the bridge? i though this guitar was stock apart from a tune o matic
Is it still possible to order these from japan?

It always had some sort of mini bucker in it. This is his only Mustang that he played live that was not routed for a full sized bucker.
There is a picture somewhere with him sitting next to it and you can see the mini bucker in it.

It has yellowed alot over the years.

robroe wrote:by the way, thanks for posting the link to this blog

kept me occupied for a while while shad is passed out

yeah, there are some pretty cool links on that page.

That is sexy...

apparently some guy on offset was at the show when he smashed it in texas aka where kurt got clocked by the bouncer

Hey I went to EMP today! they had free admission today. It's pretty cool. the Jimi Hendrix section was way cool. I saw teh kurdtz. and there was a whole grunge section with another LPB mustang played by the mudhoney guy (and a super fuzz and big muff of theirs). They also had Jack Endino's recording console, which is hilarious because one of my instructors interned for Jack Endino back in the day and learned on that console. dude is like a non-stop self promoter, always blabbing about it.

I say the Hendrix section, that was awesome, I never saw the Compstang when I went though, but I saw the gear from the reading fest.

So the In Utero tour Mustang guitars were custom made? I thought they were just regular Japanese Fender guitars. Also, I was under the impression that he used JB humbuckers during the entire In Utero tour, when he apparently had only be using DiMarzio pickups; with the JB being installed after the tour was over.

And this is probably a mistake, but I found this:

"One of Scott's guitars has been placed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the six left handed Fender Mustang guitars he custom built for Rock legend Kurt Cobain."

i thought they were made by fender luthiers specifically for kurt.

Zaphod wrote:i thought they were made by fender luthiers specifically for kurt.

That's what I thought too, also he had 4 in utero mustangs, two are un-located.

I had only thought that because that is basically what kurtsequipment.com states. I realise that probably isn't the most reliable source, though.

It does seems odd that Kurt would order four custom Fender Mustang's in stock form only to have them modified after receiving them.

I actually don't think they were custom, because he had 3 sonic blue mustangs, only two were routed out, and he had procured a red one some where along the way.

purplehaze19x wrote:It always had some sort of mini bucker in it. This is his only Mustang that he played live that was not routed for a full sized bucker.

There is a picture somewhere with him sitting next to it and you can see the mini bucker in it.

Kurt's Fiesta Red Mustang originally had a mini humbucker in it too, while it still had the red swirl pickguard. It's visible on the inside cover of the "Demolition Man" bootleg DVD.