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Swedish stripper

Post by vintage-tone » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:07 pm

hi all,
well here is one for you Jags lovers. It came in the workshop for a refin but when I took it apart, I noticed some traces of the original finish in the control cavities and the sunburst was clearly visible in the dings on the body. We decided to try and recover the original finish. it's a 64 clay dots with an april 64 stamping in the trem cavity. We believe that it was refinished in Sweden in the 60's by Hagstrom who was importing Fender for scandinavia back then and did that a lot like Jennings, Vox in England or Paul Beuscher in France etc.
I had no doubt that it wasn't a factory refin or a Fender "over sunburst" sparkle so it was ok to remove that old refin.
It was refinished over sunburst in a VERY thick early polyester kind of Orange Sparkle metalic. You can also see that the whole sunburst was oversprayed with a black primer. Sadly the body was sanded down quite a prior to refinishing and some of the original sunburst was completely gone in some areas.
Anyways, after quite a few hours of carefully peeling that thickskin sparkle poly off, a little water sanding and buffing the jag looks like a beaten up sunburst again !!! Removing that really thick poly finish also did improve the general tone and sound of the Jag quite a bit .

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by zhivago » Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:10 pm

I admire your patience!

it's definetely worth it...this is gonna turn out great...keep taking pics for us, please :)
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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by mynameisjonas » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:10 am

for some reason i think it looks great!

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Post by fullerplast » Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:41 am

I came in here looking forward to seeing a Swedish Stripper....  >:(

But the Jag looks cool too!  :)

Good job!
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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by vintage-tone » Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:18 am

well ... Sorry Fuller  :P
the jag is finished and rdy to rock, it lost almost 600 gr !!! It really is fun to have to heat up a Poly thickskin without burning the nitro hehe
All and all it was really worth it and challenging, too bad it was so damaged to start with when they did the refin but with a few aging tricks it looks like a really worn sunburst.
I d post some pix of it soon with a few of it's cousins and sisters.
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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by aen » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:54 am

awesome!  I love beat up guitars!
I prefer their older stuff.

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by daydreamdelay » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:55 am

that looks so cool  :o 8)

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by vintage-tone » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:12 pm

one of those jags is a swedish stripper ! no Fuller the sweish stripper is not a jaguar !

so here it is with 3 lil sunburst sisters a late 65 with dots / bindings ( ermh yes mate I'd email you # tomorrow  :P , I also have a Jazzmaster CAR 65 dot + binding # for you ! ) , mid 65 L Plate no binding and early 66 near mint F tuners and dot + bindings.

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by Coronado » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:54 pm

:o wow

That's an amazing collection vintage-tone!

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by offsetwaistbody » Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:05 pm

my-oh-my! what a bevvy of beauties! i love the resulting "aged" look of the swedish stripper... and i would love to see a pic of it in the previous sparkly outfit too.
what a great job!

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by burker » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:02 am

aw man, thats beautiful!

I actually really like the way the different layers of paint/wood show through, its like a sunset or the surface of jupiter. Hows it sound?

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by fullerplast » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:08 am

Nice Jags... what beauties!

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by Soiouz » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:43 pm

What a beautiful collection!

My own 1965 Jaguar is beginning to look a bit like your "swedish stripper"!!

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Re: Swedish stripper

Post by Superfuzz » Fri Oct 13, 2006 9:26 am

what about teh jag with the foamless mute?
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