Holy purple 65 JM der wie Butter spielt
Posted: Fri May 05, 2017 8:00 am
CITES or no CITES, this just crossed the channel from Nuremberg. Thanks again to pad for the heads-up.
This was advertised as a player with the obligatory dairy comparison, and for sure it sort of looks amazing, but I want to try to slowly get it back to something like a factory refinish or custom colour order spec. Not too much missing - only a changed rhythm vol pot (& butchered bracket) and the original frets, at first glance. Haven't had time for a full inspection yet, so just going by the now-deleted classified ad.
Slight backbow, but hopefully mainly from the monster frets and/or the de-tuned shipping. Back of the neck has been lacquered over the original wear-through. Neck is a slightly wider D than the later 60s JM necks that have passed through my workshop, which is a bit of a shame, but may just feel a bit odd because I'm so used to skinny Yamahas. Sounds deeeelicious - all the electronics work as they should. The holy guard & body and railtrack frets are the main issue.
Colour suggestions very, very welcome, preferably with pics - custom colours with plain headstocks and tort are not my speciality! But what a tort! Does anyone have a destroyed swirly vintage guard they'd be willing to let go of that might be able to provide scraps to plug my holes, by any chance??
Anyway, photobomb - my first proper vintage Fender :
This was advertised as a player with the obligatory dairy comparison, and for sure it sort of looks amazing, but I want to try to slowly get it back to something like a factory refinish or custom colour order spec. Not too much missing - only a changed rhythm vol pot (& butchered bracket) and the original frets, at first glance. Haven't had time for a full inspection yet, so just going by the now-deleted classified ad.
Slight backbow, but hopefully mainly from the monster frets and/or the de-tuned shipping. Back of the neck has been lacquered over the original wear-through. Neck is a slightly wider D than the later 60s JM necks that have passed through my workshop, which is a bit of a shame, but may just feel a bit odd because I'm so used to skinny Yamahas. Sounds deeeelicious - all the electronics work as they should. The holy guard & body and railtrack frets are the main issue.
Colour suggestions very, very welcome, preferably with pics - custom colours with plain headstocks and tort are not my speciality! But what a tort! Does anyone have a destroyed swirly vintage guard they'd be willing to let go of that might be able to provide scraps to plug my holes, by any chance??
Anyway, photobomb - my first proper vintage Fender :