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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by Fiddy » Tue Sep 27, 2022 2:22 pm

jvin248 wrote:
Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:56 am
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I would skip the plug/route/refinish game. Spend your time on the custom pickguard...

Jazzmaster neck pickup,
Jaguar middle pickup,
Telecaster bridge pickup, in a reverse/Hendrix pickguard slot.



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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by efiug » Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:24 pm

ainm wrote:
Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:52 pm
LVC wrote:
Mon Sep 26, 2022 2:25 pm
Looks like it was a Fender Mustang 90

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Ah, of course! The finish threw me off. Here it is before that finish, I believe: https://www.reddit.com/r/offset/comment ... p_mustang/
sure does look like it from this later post: https://www.reddit.com/r/offset/comment ... _new_baby/
seems like the original plan was to make a cyclone style guitar with a mustang trem and then evolved into this. very interesting find.

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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Wed Sep 28, 2022 2:40 am

I actually think a Bilindafied Mustang 90 would be just fine with only that one mod. A case of less is more if ever there was one.

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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by DrQuasar » Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:12 pm

I really like the idea of a Bilindastang with firebird pickups. If it were me I'd either put in the mustang pickups or cyclone pickups you aready have and lose the middle pickup or put just the super distortion in the bridge or neck only and leave the trem/bridge as is.

I wouldn't mess with the routing unless it were to go full swimming pool. Not swimming pool, I meant weight-reliefed resonance chamber.

Also paint it pink if you're going to paint it and yes, you always need another pink guitar.

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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:12 am

so. not a lot of word on this one for a while. until now.
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ok. so bit of a story. my bandmate devan was playing every mustang we own between us (that's like 8 mustangs) and they say they want something like my purple mustang with a jazzmaster trem but still has that mustang pickup sound. i mention i have this white body laying around with bad routing and they say "no, i just want the strings behind the bridge, i don't want the trem" then basically raided my spares bin for everything to make this guitar a working guitar and just told me "make it work but make it cheap" so on my lunch at work, i've been popping next door, doing 10 mins with the router and getting back to work. it still has the sarah records sticker on the back.
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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:01 am

For the record, the Sarah Records sticker won't be official. Sarah had no 'Records' appended, it was just Sarah.

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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by Steadyriot. » Wed Aug 23, 2023 12:02 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:
Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:12 am
so. not a lot of word on this one for a while. until now.
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ok. so bit of a story. my bandmate devan was playing every mustang we own between us (that's like 8 mustangs) and they say they want something like my purple mustang with a jazzmaster trem but still has that mustang pickup sound. i mention i have this white body laying around with bad routing and they say "no, i just want the strings behind the bridge, i don't want the trem" then basically raided my spares bin for everything to make this guitar a working guitar and just told me "make it work but make it cheap" so on my lunch at work, i've been popping next door, doing 10 mins with the router and getting back to work. it still has the sarah records sticker on the back.
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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by s_mcsleazy » Tue Oct 10, 2023 2:25 pm

update: it's now got new pickups and pickguard.
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bridge pickup is an 80's super distortion. neck is a 70's musicmaster pickup. the musicmaster pickup has more treble somehow so i wired the switch upside down so it's less jarring. i'm gonna get some recordings of this monster tomorrow.
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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by rank » Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:34 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:
Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:12 am
so. not a lot of word on this one for a while. until now.
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I'm not a huge mustang fan but that is a nice looking guitar.
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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by letterstoboddah » Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:25 pm

with the bucker in there and with the trem it reminds me of kurts original jagstang design its really cool. does it sound good¿

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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by s_mcsleazy » Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:09 pm

letterstoboddah wrote:
Tue Oct 17, 2023 11:25 pm
with the bucker in there and with the trem it reminds me of kurts original jagstang design its really cool. does it sound good¿
it sounds like shit (complimentary)
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Re: mustang freak project incoming.

Post by Fiddy » Thu Oct 19, 2023 2:19 pm

I think it looks badass

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