NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

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NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by bgalizio » Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:46 am

Just finished up a thinline Jaguar build that started off with a Decoboom pickguard that I picked up cheap from The Gear Page.

Body is a Saylor thinline with spruce top and alder back/sides.
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The neck is from Warmoth. It's a Mustang/Jaguar neck, maple with rosewood fretboard, standard thin profile, 6150 stainless steel frets (first time I've used SS frets), MOP dot inlays, Tusq XL nut. I finished this with a few coats of Tru Oil and it feels really nice. Used Hipshot staggered locking open back tuners with the universal mounting plate.
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I finished off the body in Tru Oil. I think around 15 coats with some light sanding between to take off any high spots.
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Fitting everything for screw hole drilling. Check out the Decoboom pickguard! Also using a Mastery bridge and vibrato.
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The pickups are from Sunday Handwound. Tim knocked it out of the park yet again. These are Alnico 4 for the EAD string and Alnico 2 for the GBE strings. The bridge pickup is 6.1k tapped with an 8.2k hot tap. I set the single upper switch to toggle between the different bridge pickup output levels.
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The neck pickup is 5.9k with a separate claw ground for 4 way switch wiring. The switch is wired as neck, series, parallel, bridge.
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I used CTS 1meg pots, Switchcraft jack, and a Mojotone Vitamin T .022 capacitor.
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Most everything installed. I'm using a Reverend banjo armrest, which I find comfortable on slab style bodies and also looks nice.
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And finally all put together. Things are settling in and playing nicely. Just working on final set up now! Also ordered a black switch tip to see if that looks better. I wanted to use a Tele top hat style, but it bumped into the screws making it not consistently selecting the neck pickup.
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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by s_mcsleazy » Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:08 pm

cool build.
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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by windmill » Mon Sep 17, 2018 3:39 pm

Yep

that looks good

Hope it plays just as good

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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:13 pm

Looks great! Awesome project! I love all the Decoboom stuff too 8)
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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by dinosaurkale-> » Tue Sep 18, 2018 4:37 am

aside from the sanding between truoil coats, did you have to do any sanding initially, out of the box ?

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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by marqueemoon » Tue Sep 18, 2018 5:36 am

Looks great. What are your impressions of the stainless frets so far?

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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by bgalizio » Tue Sep 18, 2018 6:32 am

Saylor bodies are sanded to 150 grit I think. It definitely need some smoothing before I started the tru oil but it wasn’t bad.

So far so good on the stainless frets!

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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by smalltownsongs » Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:34 am

Loving this!
Nicely done.

Not to put words in your mouth, but did you say it started out as a pickguard and then you built this all up? (please say yes)
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Re: NGD: Thinline Jaguar Build (Saylor, Mastery, Decoboom, Warmoth, Sunday Handwound)

Post by bgalizio » Tue Sep 18, 2018 12:02 pm

smalltownsongs wrote:
Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:34 am
Loving this!
Nicely done.

Not to put words in your mouth, but did you say it started out as a pickguard and then you built this all up? (please say yes)
Yes! Found the pickguard at a good price and worked off of that for the rest of the build.

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