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Here is my project goal:


All started when i picked up a '78 Musicmaster neck locally for $50. I knew i had to have it and that I would be making a whole guitar out of it some day

The body and pickguard are coming from Stewart [shortscale]. It is a '78, perfect match for my neck!
here is the current state of the body, it was previously routed as usual but stewart has done a pretty good job of cleaning it up, already primered and ready for paint it looks like


I was initially going to buy the black pickguard from him as well until i found this:

Its a loaded '78/9 Musicmaster pickguard! could my luck be any better
I also found a great price on a bridge from the same shop:

It was listed on his website as a Musicmaster Bass bridge but its a guitar bridge. Maybe why it has gone unnoticed and priced low

All thats really left is a neck plate and tuners. The tuning keys will be re-issue F tuners, and i'll keep an eye out for a proper F neck plate but in the mean time any old one will do.

Really excited to see this come together from the right parts!

I had one for a long while, it was stripped but that neck was superb

do an strang thru pussy













lel

The pickguard arrived today, as did the Musicmaster Bass bridge . But no matter, its going back to sunny California and I'll be recieving the guitar bridge before too long. While i've got it i figured i'd document it as such. I suppose i'll do measurements on things like string spacing, mounting hole placement, length of intonation screws.... yeah :roll:


GET ON WITH IT

Here is the part i've been most excited about. The Pickguard.



Plenty of the usual warping, it'll be fine once its screwed into the body


this bit dates it to '77/'78


Pickup looks to be a '79


And i have no idea how to date the pots, i don't even know if this is the right number to go off of


its no "vintage cloth wiring" but it'll do!


I've also just realized that the jack is bent out of shape

Also, if anyone noticed, they sent me a BRONCO pickguard by mistake
this will be interesting

you were worried about doing string through, and ruining a vintage body. but now you get a bronco pg, and you're gung-ho about pickup routing the same vintage body you didn't want to do an strang thru?

HAZE HAZE U SO CRAZY

lel according to stewart it was already an route for a bridge pickup at one point and has since been repaired so i can fuck it up all over again

This thing is done, by the way

since offset doesn't scale pictures, heres the link to the shortscale.org thread
http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... 887#818887" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That finish turned out great. Good work there!

Thanks! This one is my second refinish, first time using nitro paint, could still use some polishing and buffing on the front but for now i'm just going to enjoy playing it