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WTF is going on here then?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:19 pm
by Fran
Correct me if i'm wrong but it looks like half Strat/half Mustang/half filler. Some decent parts worth salvaging though, maple neck? Dont recall a maple Mustang neck ever..
LINKTON
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:24 pm
by Johno
Ha ha, ad says the body has been repaired!!! the left side looks like half an old work surface... nice guestimate on the size.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:26 pm
by NickS
Didn't we see this a couple of weeks back? has it been relisted?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:31 pm
by George
The owner actually posted about it in the Projects forum a few weeks ago, never up for sale....
http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39142
Hello, first post and all that.. but straight in the deep end with pics a project plus a good chance of upsetting a few purists Wink
Back in 2002 I won a Mustang body off ebay, it came with a few bits, a re-issue pickguard, 2 pickup covers and the original chrome bridge cups. I've always wanted a Fender Mustang, ever since I worked out what those groovey customised guitars Adrian Belew used to use.
I ordered some hardware to make the body complete and was thinking about getting a neck made up by someone like USACG.
But luckily enough the seller had the neck listed a few weeks later along with some other vintage bits in his listings. 1966 bridge, some old Fender "F" tuners and a re issue trem.
Stuck it all together and came up with this...
I'd love to see someone with the skills pick this up, paint it, sort it out (and then sell it to me obviously). I actually think it'd be a really cool guitar given some love.
I think someone would have bought it here, but it's locked into sale and the guy didn't have the requistite 50 posts anyway.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:38 pm
by gaybear
i dig it
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:41 pm
by endsjustifymeans
Fuck, I just want the MAPLEZ NECK!
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:44 pm
by Addam
endsjustifymeans wrote:Fuck, I just want the MAPLEZ NECK!
+1!
Re: WTF is going on here then?
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:46 pm
by stewart
Fran wrote:Dont recall a maple Mustang neck ever..
you on drugs? they made lots of them in the 70s.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:54 pm
by Fran
Yes. I am clearly on drugs. I forgot about the 70's run of Mustangs.
The body wants binning surely? But it's worth watching for the neck and various parts.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:00 pm
by benecol
ITT: Fran forgets the decade he was a teenager in.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:03 pm
by stewart
*runs for cover*
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:10 pm
by Fran
Haha. I have my facepalm moments. Two tonight actually, i swore Leslie West used a Musicmaster then realized it was a Gibbo Junior... i knew it was some model i like'd.
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:15 pm
by Fran
Er... *CHILD* benecol. I'm 40 this year not 50!
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:19 pm
by honeyiscool
Fender Japan actually makes a current model maple fretboard Mustang:
http://www.fenderjapan.co.jp/mg77.html
Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:37 pm
by DGNR8
AddamInsane wrote:endsjustifymeans wrote:Fuck, I just want the MAPLEZ NECK!
+1!
+1
I would have to see it in person, but if it were unusable I would prolly either saw it in half and replace the bad half, or just get a different Mustang body and sell the other. If it's just oversized, I would think about shaving down that Strat horn and fixing the contour.
Looking again, I think it could easily be saved. I would not worry about the filler.
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 1:26 am
by seb_ennis
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:53 am
by Rox
I kinda dig it . Has like a Stangy / Jazzy thing with a slight Rick vibe with the shape and being ash . I notz be hatin .
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 3:29 am
by Lucamo
seb_ennis wrote:
I want one!!!
Fender Japan makes the hottest stuff
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:58 am
by benecol
Fran wrote:Er... *CHILD* benecol. I'm 40 this year not 50!
Are you
sure?
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:22 am
by George
Is anyone going to bid on this?