Discussion of newer designs, copies and reissue offset-waist instruments.
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powerdroid
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by powerdroid » Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:28 am
smjenkins wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:16 pm
Talk to me about those partsmasters. What's the story on their bodies and necks?
The B&B I put together in 2009, starting with the neck I asked Kifla to make for me, body was made by TheWorkOffice, I think apart from the electronics all the parts were bought from forum members around the world. I've been calling it the OSGmaster, it was natural with a white guard until I painted the sunburst about a year ago.
Gold guard has a body made, and painted by me, a Herad guard, Bootstrap pickups and the neck bought off eBay. I dont know the origin as it has no markings, but seems an awful lot like a Squier Mascis? I'm planning on building a neck for this one, just need to get confident enough to use my brazilian rosewood board I've been holding onto....
Both bodies are alder, btw.
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smjenkins
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by smjenkins » Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:20 pm
Maggieo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:51 am
Anyone have a 60-70s B&B Lake Placid Blue Jaguar?
Axe and you shall recieve! This is a '68 Jag.
This may look like it's aged green, but it's almost the exact same color under the guard / plates. It looks more blue in this pic
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JSett
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by JSett » Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:58 pm
smjenkins wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:20 pm
Maggieo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:51 am
Anyone have a 60-70s B&B Lake Placid Blue Jaguar?
The colour this looks in the photos is basically my dream guitar, maybe a little greener would be good. Fucking ridiculous
Silly Rabbit, don't you know scooped mids are for kids?
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MayTheFuzzBeWithYou
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by MayTheFuzzBeWithYou » Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:55 am
Oh wow!
That guitar is the ancestor of my OTM and my FMS that they never met!
the definition of beauty and sexy! Haha. Congrats! I didn‘t like newish LPB that much...but faded like yours it looks like a dream come true!
(Question: I know of bigger JM Headstocks in the CBS era - but were Jags also bigger? I somehow thought they would have stayed the same but your‘s looks bigger somehow)
smjenkins wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:20 pm
Maggieo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:51 am
Anyone have a 60-70s B&B Lake Placid Blue Jaguar?
Axe and you shall recieve! This is a '68 Jag.
This may look like it's aged green, but it's almost the exact same color under the guard / plates. It looks more blue in this pic
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CROSS_guitars
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by CROSS_guitars » Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:50 am
Wow wow wow wow wow wow
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by Maggieo » Sat Dec 04, 2021 9:32 am
Aw man, that's the guitar I had in art school, back in the 80s! Gorgeous!
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Mechanical Birds
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by Mechanical Birds » Sat Dec 04, 2021 3:28 pm
smjenkins wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 10:20 pm
Maggieo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:51 am
Anyone have a 60-70s B&B Lake Placid Blue Jaguar?
Axe and you shall recieve! This is a '68 Jag.
This may look like it's aged green, but it's almost the exact same color under the guard / plates. It looks more blue in this pic
Since the first moment I saw this exact guitar, it’s been my dream guitar. As a Fender fan especially, I don’t know how anyone can see this and not think it’s the coolest looking electric guitar of all time.
I’ll never afford one but as soon as I figure out a neck I’m trying to make a replica.
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smjenkins
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by smjenkins » Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:35 pm
MayTheFuzzBeWithYou wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 2:55 am
(Question: I know of bigger JM Headstocks in the CBS era - but were Jags also bigger? I somehow thought they would have stayed the same but your‘s looks bigger somehow)
I bet that's just a trick of the angle that photo was taken. I don't think it is any bigger than my other Jag headstocks. I believe the Jag headstock was always bigger. In a way, it was the prototype for the CBS-era bigger headstock.
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snarf
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by snarf » Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:46 am
speaking of replica.. I recently mixed my own LPB and finished a jag with it:
This is a MIJ JG66B neck and an ash body from Guitar Mill.
I kind of regret not shooting a coat of amber tinted lacquer over the color basecoat to give it that darker vintage look, but it matches pretty well against the johnny marr jaguar and a gretsch custom shop I recently played. Maybe if I leave it out in the sun for a few years it will look like the real thing!
OR I could take it apart, sand and re-shoot the clear with the vintage amber tint. I've been experimenting a ton this year with mixed results!
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sal paradise
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by sal paradise » Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:55 am
Stop it!
I recently sprayed my telecaster cv sonic blue to keep it era correct. Should have gone for LPB
I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion?
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smjenkins
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by smjenkins » Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:05 am
snarf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:46 am
speaking of replica.. I recently mixed my own LPB and finished a jag with it:
I kind of regret not shooting a coat of amber tinted lacquer over the color basecoat to give it that darker vintage look, but it matches pretty well against the johnny marr jaguar and a gretsch custom shop I recently played. Maybe if I leave it out in the sun for a few years it will look like the real thing!
OR I could take it apart, sand and re-shoot the clear with the vintage amber tint. I've been experimenting a ton this year with mixed results!
That looks amazing! NIce build.
It will definitely age and get greener over the years. I've got a poly strat from 2004 that I baby and have never played out with. I just swapped the pickguard on that one earier in the year and even that had tan lines from the pickguard and just seeing a bit of northern Pacific Northwest sun and interior lighting. I've always worried about leaving something out in a bright sunny day from a consistency perspctive. You'd need to rotate it to make sure the sides and back also get greener. It's almost like painting with UV.
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jdr1014
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by jdr1014 » Mon Dec 06, 2021 7:13 am
Fantastic job on that"replica" Jag snarf!
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by JSett » Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:18 am
I've taken to trying to get close-up shots of my guitars recently...
Silly Rabbit, don't you know scooped mids are for kids?
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by JSett » Sun Dec 12, 2021 12:32 am
Christmas
Silly Rabbit, don't you know scooped mids are for kids?
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by Mechanical Birds » Tue Dec 14, 2021 11:14 am
snarf wrote: ↑Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:46 am
speaking of replica.. I recently mixed my own LPB and finished a jag with it:
This is a MIJ JG66B neck and an ash body from Guitar Mill.
I kind of regret not shooting a coat of amber tinted lacquer over the color basecoat to give it that darker vintage look, but it matches pretty well against the johnny marr jaguar and a gretsch custom shop I recently played. Maybe if I leave it out in the sun for a few years it will look like the real thing!
OR I could take it apart, sand and re-shoot the clear with the vintage amber tint. I've been experimenting a ton this year with mixed results!
You really should just sell me this guitar oh my god you did a great job on it!
I had the JM66B and the yellow was so dark you couldn’t even tell there was binding on the neck so I hated it. The pearloid also looked crappy but I’d have been a lot less peeved if it was the blue Jag version instead