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Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 8:58 am
by aliendawg
I'm looking forward to this project

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:32 pm
by cooterfinger
That'll buff out.
Seriously though, looks like a great candidate for restoration. No hunting down vintage correct parts.

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:11 am
by Kinghat
The Mustang is at my house now and disassembled. Here are some pics, a few are redundant, but may be clearer.

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I have a shell pink alder body that I made years ago; I believe I will glue up the headstock cracks, and transplant all the parts to that body while I fix the original body. The plan is to route a clean diagonal line as close to the damage as possible and glue in a piece of scrap alder with the grain oriented correctly.

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 11:29 am
by Kinghat
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Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:29 am
by Kinghat
Headstock is repaired

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And I've begun routing out the damage.

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Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:34 am
by Kinghat
I really wish I had an old, or even new, piece of poplar to go back on the body. Anyone got anything they'd sell me?

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:42 am
by YALCaster
This is really intriguing. I m excited to see the end results

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:44 am
by Kinghat
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Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:59 am
by Maggieo
This is a great thread.

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 10:04 am
by countertext
I’m not sure where you’re located, but back in Atlanta, Home Depot sold decent sized chunks of poplar. Not sure if it would be dry enough for this, but I found some good stuff there in the past.

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:39 am
by Kinghat
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Got it trimmed at lunch and flushed up with a spindle sander. Now I just need to gently level the top and do the roundover.

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:18 pm
by YALCaster
You guy me are artists

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:02 pm
by mgeek
is that... mahogany?

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:05 pm
by Kinghat
mgeek wrote:
Tue Feb 12, 2019 3:02 pm
is that... mahogany?
Roasted ash. I just had to use what I had in the scrap pile

Re: 60s Fender Mustang restoration

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:17 am
by mgeek
fair enough...my ocd wouldn't be able to cope with not having the same piece of wood on there...none available via mail order?