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hey guys... remember the "jawnshop" rich bought off ebay a while ago? well i then bought it off him... you KNOW i can't resist them modded beaters like this one.

it had previously been modded/routed for humbuckers, a floyd rose or so with springs in the back, and a HUGE control cavity between the bridge and the usual control plate. those holes were plugged with some chunks of wood, yada yada.
and then i got my hands on it.

neck pup was not working, so i changed it for another old no-name one.

i would usually never mod a 40 year old guitar, but since pretty much nothing on this one is original (body wood about 50-60%) i said screw it.

I NEED TEH VIBRAHTO.

i had an old 60s jag tailpiece laying around and decided to go for it.
so i took the body with me to my 3-week stay in costa rica and had my friend Roberto route it.

BILINDA'd!!!

i just finished 'er today. DANG what a hottie.



what worries me a bit is that all the plug/routes are starting to somehow crack open. i guess one smash/drop and it disintegrates...
so careful with that axe, pat.

better sunshine pics coming tomorrow!

thanks SS for making this possible!!!

love,

Pat.

so but now... dilemma starts.

i'm not so sure about the 2x buckers and the über-clean white look of the guard.
so i got some beat up old ones and playing with some ideas.

quick cheap mock-ups in the dark, so you get the idea.

NOW


beat to shit, tobacco-stained, warped and chipped mustang guard (i do have a hotrail bucker that i might put in there...)


OR

modded 70s with bucker in the neck and/or hotrail in brige.


whaddya think?

thnx,

Pat.

The one with the 2 humbuckers - it suits the colour.

And send me the stained/beat up Mustang guard...please.

NickD wrote:The one with the 2 humbuckers - it suits the colour.

+1
Love that stang!

Looks awesome as it is Pat!

I like the white guard and hambackers!!

hmmm... i think i'll want the old pearl guard with a hotrail in the neck. it'll look PERFECT!

but... how do i wire this onto the switch? there's a red, green, black, white, and the ground cable...

?! help?!

leave it alone.

throw all that other ugly shit out so it doesn't tempt you to fuck with success

I like it the way it is. Nice job!

Pacafeliz wrote:hmmm... i think i'll want the old pearl guard with a hotrail in the neck. it'll look PERFECT!

but... how do i wire this onto the switch? there's a red, green, black, white, and the ground cable...

?! help?!

Hey bud, white and red get soldered together and taped. Black is hot and green is ground UNLESS you are mixing it with a fender pickup. Then you want Green to be hot and Black to ground. Bare wire goes to ground with your other ground. Hot goes on the switch where the previous pickup's hot went.

robroe wrote:leave it alone.

throw all that other ugly shit out so it doesn't tempt you to fuck with success

This

Bilinda would approve, me thinks.

It looks great as is. Don't change a thing.

mixtape wrote:It looks great as is. Don't change a thing.

+1

well here she is, in good/bad company...

It really does look great. Every time I look at my Mustang I think, "that would be even better with a Jag trem on it..."

That Bronco is nice too! Really cool to see both of them,

Yay the Crack Whore!

There absolutely HAS to be a Mustang or Duo released with a Jag trem as standard.

George wrote:There absolutely HAS to be a Mustang or Duo released with a Jag trem as standard.

If it does happen I bet it'll be a Squier VM or a Squier at least. Probably a bit too outrageous for an actual Fender model.