It's been a while since I've documented a design on here!
I had someone get in touch through my Custom Shop asking about making a John Squire (of the Stone Roses) custom Jag.
The story of the original guitar is that John approached a guitar builder about remodelling the body shape of his Jaguar, and adding some humbuckers. They decided to build a body from scratch based loosely around the Jazz Bass shape, and transplant the neck, plates, bridge etc. onto it.
A while later, it seems John was having issues with the Jag's bridge and vibrato system so decided to have it routed out for a Strat vibrato. He elected to keep the Jag vibrato plate in place, as there was no real need to remove it - but it became redundant / cosmetic.
As a replica of the original, I'm routing to put both a Strat and Jag vibrato on there. Below are my vectors and a photograph of the original I based them on:
And here it is after conversion to 3D and implementation of the contours and body routes (to check there are no conflicts between the cavities):
I have a lovely lightweight chunk of quarter-sawn idigbo lined up for this project - tomorrow I will extract the toolpaths, and Wednesday or Thursday I plan to cut it. Stay tuned!
Cheers
Dan
Interested to see how this progresses.
no but seriously
