Design Ideas

[Snake Hips]

While I am finishing up the mahogany Mustang project I started to think about some next projects.

This first one is little retro idea. Thinking about tapering the sides down.


Double cut because I wanted to see what it looked like


Second Idea is the a Fender Mashup. Upper horn is a Fender Bullet the double cut version, Mustang Body w/ and w/o a Jaguar lower bout.

[JackFawkes]

(I like the weird extended upper bout w/ Jag lower bout idea)

[Fiddy]

Dr Frankenstein? Is that you?

[jvin248]

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Number one 'retro' but the upper bout with the opposite angle (inward angled like your double cut drawing but keeping the strap pin at the same fret-forward position), mov the strap pin more outboard closer to the horn than shown. Use a six-in-line headstock on it not 3+3. Swap the pickups for a classic Jazzmaster pushed as close to the end of the neck as possible (use a P90-style pickup cover soap bar or dog ear not the JM bump-outs so you can get it closer to the neck). Then two jaguar pickups put next to each other as a bridge pickup and both angled like a Strat/Tele bridge pickup. Then a 4-way Tele blade switch (adds pickups in series) for pickup contronl with a push/pull tone pot for the two series pickups at the bridge, set so 'down' is both in humbucking mode (default) and up for split (preference the neck side jaguar pickup for more mids like a P90).

So the pickups look like this: // []

Kind of like the Robbie Robertson Strat


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[Steadyriot.]

Second Idea is the a Fender Mashup. Upper horn is a Fender Bullet the double cut version, Mustang Body w/ and w/o a Jaguar lower bout.

Reminds me of that skinny Bass V

[Snake Hips]

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Number one 'retro' but the upper bout with the opposite angle (inward angled like your double cut drawing but keeping the strap pin at the same fret-forward position), mov the strap pin more outboard closer to the horn than shown. Use a six-in-line headstock on it not 3+3. Swap the pickups for a classic Jazzmaster pushed as close to the end of the neck as possible (use a P90-style pickup cover soap bar or dog ear not the JM bump-outs so you can get it closer to the neck). Then two jaguar pickups put next to each other as a bridge pickup and both angled like a Strat/Tele bridge pickup. Then a 4-way Tele blade switch (adds pickups in series) for pickup contronl with a push/pull tone pot for the two series pickups at the bridge, set so 'down' is both in humbucking mode (default) and up for split (preference the neck side jaguar pickup for more mids like a P90).

So the pickups look like this: // []

Kind of like the Robbie Robertson Strat


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Ok ok ok ok I think I know what you are saying I dig the body style it reminds me of of something that exist and I can figure out the name of it. Supro or National....

[Snake Hips]

Second Idea is the a Fender Mashup. Upper horn is a Fender Bullet the double cut version, Mustang Body w/ and w/o a Jaguar lower bout.

Reminds me of that skinny Bass V

Yeah like a small portion Bass V but short scale guitar... I am digging it.

[Snake Hips]

playing around with it a little more

[hexes]

the stretch-armstrong mustang is cool. the retro 1 design can be fun. not sure about the angled strat pickups, I think it’d be interesting to follow the angle of the lower horn and tilt your neck pickup that way to match (and possibly bridge pickup, slightly twangier low e and ever so less bright high e.)