im going to do the neck exactly like my jaguars neck, same color bindings and same block material., with the same fender vintage frets, and instead of this ruff satin on here, ill finish it with a nice smooth gloss urethane,
just starting today
im probably gonna sell the tuners too because i wanna buy the "F" tuners from the mustang with the plastic tops like i used to have, i shouldnt have sold them, but i never couod make up my mind so i sometimes things like that, sell things and than buy them back, idk
i ordered 2 different decals for the neck, ill decide which one im gonna use when the time comes to decal it, and ill use the other style one for the neck ill buy to keep on this body, im selling the Mascis neck im modding eventullay when its done, i wouldve kept it, but it dont want the truss rod hole at the headstock, so ill eventually buy another neck, also with a bigger headstock, and do the same job to it, and use the second decal i ordered, and keep that neck, and with the bigger headstock, and ivory bindings, the Mustang tuners will go good with the neck and color of the body,
the two different decals are the swirls with the spagetti font and the swirls with the FAT font, ill probably use the "spaggetti" font one for this Mascis neck, because the headstock is smaller than the one i will choose to buy for the body that i am keeping, but these are pics of the decals i bought
this is almost exactly what the neck will look like exept for that damn truss rod adjustment at the head
this is the neck im thinking of buying for the body im keeping of this guitar, and i will probably use the decal with the Bigger "Fender" font
oh yeah, by the way, i posted somewhere here that i was searching everywhere online for this "Fender japan gig bag for jazzmaster"< and someone here gave me a link to the "ebay" listing of this case and i bought it, THANKS to whoever that was,
its crazy too, because i was searching ebay for about a month after my last job, because one of my customers that dropped of his "fender japan mij jazzmaster i completly remodled, he had that gig bag and i fell in love with it and he wouldnt sell it for nothing, i offered him $100, and he said "no:. and i ended up buying it for only $32 bucks on the bay,
this was one of my last clients guitar i did, that had the same case
his neck was a mexican strat and he bought it on ebay and sent it to my address to build it up, than he drove from pennslyvannia to new jersey to drop the guitar off, "brand new mij jazzmaster, so i can do modds to the body as well and attach the new neck and do all the adjustments it needed, intonation, make sure the action was the correct hieght, no fret buzzing,etc
this was my last 3 jobs ago
you can see the gig bag in the backround of one of the images, anyway, thanks too the one on this site that directed me to the case link on ebay, it was the only one also, i got it from , reliable fender on ebay, they have alot of stuff, but never seen that case there
that neck was alittle tough but im getting so much better, it came out better than my CIJ Jaguar
i woudve liked to use this same Jazzmaster decal as my client johns , the 68, without the "swirls", but this Mascis headstock is too small,
thant was the whole reason one of my clients rather buy a used mexican strat neck with a truss at headstock, because he wanted that "CBS" headstock and logo,.
also, off the topic, since doing this work nonstop since i last posted my last work on here which i forget what it even was,, i am constantly having to buy more and more tools and supplies so i had to upgrade my tool box, got rid of that little piece of shit one i had and got this bad boy, its got compartmnets for each type of job needed for this type of work,, its great, and fits everything , even my turtle wax
i have enough supplies and tools now for the next couple months,
