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An Elvis Costello Jaguar. Fucking love it.

Seriously, this is my favorite type of finish - natural wood with a thin finish featuring a slight tint.

My first American fender (FSR nitro stat) has it and is beautiful. The Thurston Moore and Ranaldo jazzmasters too..... If fender made more of this type of finish, I would probably find an excuse to buy them all!

I just received this guitar last week and it made me realize that I hadn't checked in here in a while. Pretty funny to see that it already has its own thread.

Dealer pics courtesy of Dallas Guitar Traders

bossaddict wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 04, 2018 9:59 am

I just received this guitar last week and it made me realize that I hadn't checked in here in a while. Pretty funny to see that it already has its own thread.

Dealer pics courtesy of Dallas Guitar Traders

Very cool. Do you like it?

Yeah, it's got a lot of potential. I think I'll have some time this weekend to change the strings and set it up, etc. The neck pickup sounds great, but the bridge is weak by comparison. I may try and raise it.

Are you planning to refinish it?

This guitar looks unreal. Check out the color of the super aged pickup covers

Luiz Spindola wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 04, 2018 6:10 pm

Are you planning to refinish it?

Seriously considering it (three-color sunburst, olympic white, or black), but am going to keep it as-is for now to get a better feel for it. I kind of like it as-is, so no rush.

Just wanted to give people here an update. I really ended up loving this guitar, particularly the neck and the pickups, but the body finish kind of bugged me. I thought about having it refinished, but ultimately sourced an original 1964 3-color sunburst body and just swapped it out. I struggled for a while with whether I would rather have the truly original body on it, but it not be the original finish, or if I would rather have an all-original body that happens to not have been paired with the rest of the parts/neck until 55 year after leaving the factory. Obviously, I chose the latter.

Here's the finished product...

Nice!!! The crackling looks amazing

Looks superb!

Buy a new '63 neck and pair it up with the body with pickups and hardware from Ebay and do an aged Olympic White refinish now....

:-)