66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by thewizardofaz » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:43 pm

Geeze louise that's pretty. I want to repeat my question about the Chromabase Fiesta Red and Daphne if you've tried them. Are they accurate?
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by CurtisNovak » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:21 pm

I guess you have not seen my color blocks... http://www.curtisnovak.com/restorations ... ndex.shtml

These colors are the ONLY guaranteed accurate colors as they are the OEM formulas that Fender used in the 50's everything else is hit or miss b/c they are reverse engineered mixes.
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by thewizardofaz » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:51 pm

Have I seen them? Lol..I've i've sent foks there to look once I've sent folks there a hundred times. I was just wondering what you thought of them. My monitor may not be totally acurate, but they look right to me.
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by cmatthes » Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:17 pm

Wow.  Just pulled this up again - fantastic...
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by serial » Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:35 am

And now, it's HOME!  Going to wire it up this week and get the replacement logo from Fender on there. 
THANKS Curtis!
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And to add to my SFG happiness, THIS came home w/me yesterday.  April 1960 Duosonic-FUN little guitar!  T'was a good week for me!
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by thewizardofaz » Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:15 am

very pretty indeed. Gorgeous
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:10 am

Those are beautiful!  I love that color... :? :?  How hard is it to get the Fender decals?  I have heard it's like pulling teeth, even if you have all of their requirements.
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by thewizardofaz » Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:13 am

If it's not an original Fender neck with pics of it back when, etc, you won't get a decal. There are decals available every so often on eBay, but you have to get them before they are shut down by Fender.
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by RumorsOFsurF » Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:15 pm

That's what I thought.  I understand why they do it, because otherwise we'd have a million more fakes running around.  It just sucks for those of us that want to build partscasters/masters for our personal use. :(
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by serial » Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:10 pm

I'm kind of dreading that process from what I'm hearing.  I have pics of the neck stamp on the heel, but I never had this one with the headstock logo (it was stripped when I got it).  I managed to pick up a decal from eBay from a guy who looks like he does good ones, but the whole image size is too small (compared to my other '66 and the sonic blue one my brother had).  The fine lettering looks a little heavy too.

I'm going to try to get this wired up this week, but I just scored a much cleaner bridge than the one that came on this one (bubbled chrome and lotsa rust that's been stubborn to come off).  Curtis was gteat to deal with and his work is beautiful.
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Re: 66 Jaguar refin Seafoam Green

Post by cmatthes » Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:02 pm

Wow, that looks GREAT Steve (and Curtis!)!!  Stuning job, and I can't wait to check it out in person soon.
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