65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

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65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by cmd2kx » Sun Jan 14, 2018 2:40 pm

Greetings,

I recently acquired a beautiful player grade Jazzmaster. Today I was installing pickup foam as the original stuff has literally turned to dust. When removing the neck pickup I noticed a very loose lead from the neck pickup. Ironically, it has been functioning fine despite this loose wiring. It looks like 3 -4 strands of the wire remain connected while 3 strands are now floating.



Can someone instruct me whether to resolder this? Have a pro do it? or leave well enough alone.

Also, what is best method for restoring shrunken celluloid pick guard?

Images can be found In following link;

https://imgur.com/a/86cTg

Will update with more photos soon. BTW I have since removed the dreaded buzstop :w00t:

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by pscates » Sun Jan 14, 2018 3:49 pm

I love how that green looks in the photos. Due to a lot of yellowing?

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by cmd2kx » Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:46 pm

Thanks,

Yes, refinish is sun faded in a couple different spots and looks great.

I perused the mentioned thread regarding stretching a shrunk pick guard and was unable to find a definite solution. If someone who has verified a successful method offers this as a service, I will probably go that route.

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by cmd2kx » Tue Feb 27, 2018 9:55 pm

Here is how it looks today with a Gold Plexiglass (gretsch style?) pick guard I bought on Ebay.

I also have a anodized gold that I may put on one day. This is without a doubt the best sounding guitar I own.

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by raphaël » Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:10 am

:w00t: this guitar looks awesome :w00t:

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by Chew » Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:52 am

Wow. Looks almost neon in some spots!

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by sam » Wed Feb 28, 2018 8:46 am

Loving the look of that gold guard against the green.

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by Singlebladepickup » Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:02 am

That color is rad. Any info about the year or previous owner(s)?

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by kamillebidan » Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:46 am

Almost lime-y (in a good way)! I think the gold guard really brings out the highlights in a pleasant way!

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by fortytwo » Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:18 pm

It looks great with the gold, but I really like the original tort on it too..

Did you work the shrinking out of it?

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by zhivago » Wed Feb 28, 2018 12:37 pm

Wow, this looks so nice with tort!!! :-*

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Re: 65 Jazzmaster Refin in Seafoam - Restoration help

Post by cmd2kx » Wed Feb 28, 2018 3:05 pm

I haven't tried stretching original the pick guard and don't intend to at this point as I don't want to destroy it.

Internally it seems to be all original from 1965. Neck marked June 1965 B and has matching pencil marks present in the pocket as per previous owner (I am afraid to remove the neck on this thing) . In this picture you can see that the stretching of the original pick guard caused a small crack internally.

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Here is another shot of it with the Tort. Maybe it's my own pre-judgment, but knowing how much the guard shrank I feel like the Tort makes the guitar look fat ;)

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I do like the gold plexiglass style, it is quite a bit thicker and does make it harder to use the rhythm circuit controls. I have since installed the mastery bridge, and installed flatwound 11s which sound amazing but make it tough to play lead as can't bend the G string as much as I would like.

I am assuming it was refinished. Luckily whatever they used (I am not sure it is nitro) was thin and flaking off. Check out the back;

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