NGD: 1969 Fender Maverick!
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:28 pm
well yes this is a DREAM COME TRUE like no other.
NEVER ever thought i'd get my creepy little hands on one of these... and now it's here!
as you might know by now, Rick(ard) here was looking for a "perfect" worn-in B&B jazzmaster, and he'd trade for this his Maverick (which used to belong to member here DarrelT, years ago, and refinished the body in some sorta IBM). Rick got a modded/routed but original sunburst Maverick/Custom body for it and slapped all the parts on this one.
well i have/had 2 B&B jazzers, the '69 with the dimarzio and AVRI pups, and the '72 with the buchered neck (Gonkulator is working on it still, and i'm still gonna need someone to make a fretboard for it... please!). we decided it would be fair for both if i gave him the unmolested '72 body with the '69s neck on it (he posted his NGD above), and so we did it.
the Mav arrived a couple days ago with no probs, and the "extra" blue body! :w00t: (i'm gonna need another neck for that one, since a normal strat or so neck WILL NOT fit - but that'll be another story)...
i'm still OH SO AMAZED this has happened. plus, i find the MAVERICK logo SO MUCH cooler (THEE COOLEST) than the Custom's.
i've had an XII before (and sold it to someone here, a friend of mjet's). i've had a friggin' Bass V, and i do still own my '63 Bass VI project (to be fixed this summer, promissed!!!). but i never ever dreamed of owning a Mav.
the neck is wider, of course, but VERY comfortable. the sound is warmer and less shrill than on the XII (iirc) and it's a VERY playable guitar, all over.
Rich had warned me of the pups being very microphonic, but i really don't find them that much of a PITA - or at all.
it's wonderful.
i stare at it for HOURS.
life's good.
but ok, here's porn:
(sorry there wasn't too much sun anymore...)
yes it was once modded for sting-thru... :fp:
here you can see where/how they plugged the XII's string-thru. that's why they were all black on the back.
:-* :-* :-*
NEVER ever thought i'd get my creepy little hands on one of these... and now it's here!
as you might know by now, Rick(ard) here was looking for a "perfect" worn-in B&B jazzmaster, and he'd trade for this his Maverick (which used to belong to member here DarrelT, years ago, and refinished the body in some sorta IBM). Rick got a modded/routed but original sunburst Maverick/Custom body for it and slapped all the parts on this one.
well i have/had 2 B&B jazzers, the '69 with the dimarzio and AVRI pups, and the '72 with the buchered neck (Gonkulator is working on it still, and i'm still gonna need someone to make a fretboard for it... please!). we decided it would be fair for both if i gave him the unmolested '72 body with the '69s neck on it (he posted his NGD above), and so we did it.
the Mav arrived a couple days ago with no probs, and the "extra" blue body! :w00t: (i'm gonna need another neck for that one, since a normal strat or so neck WILL NOT fit - but that'll be another story)...
i'm still OH SO AMAZED this has happened. plus, i find the MAVERICK logo SO MUCH cooler (THEE COOLEST) than the Custom's.
i've had an XII before (and sold it to someone here, a friend of mjet's). i've had a friggin' Bass V, and i do still own my '63 Bass VI project (to be fixed this summer, promissed!!!). but i never ever dreamed of owning a Mav.
the neck is wider, of course, but VERY comfortable. the sound is warmer and less shrill than on the XII (iirc) and it's a VERY playable guitar, all over.
Rich had warned me of the pups being very microphonic, but i really don't find them that much of a PITA - or at all.
it's wonderful.
i stare at it for HOURS.
life's good.
but ok, here's porn:
(sorry there wasn't too much sun anymore...)
yes it was once modded for sting-thru... :fp:
here you can see where/how they plugged the XII's string-thru. that's why they were all black on the back.
:-* :-* :-*
