24" scale early Musicmaster project
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:27 pm
So, I like the looks of the early-style Musicmasters, but I've never really warmed to the 22.5" scale. I decided to swap a 24" scale neck that I found on a really tortured Musicmaster - actually it came attached to the awful body that ended up getting sawed in half for that black/red Mustang project from a while back!
Ordinarily, I'm very anti-headstock-reshaping, but in this case, the neck had been stained and oversanded, in addition to some sort of hippie woodburning project:
First, I tried to sand off as much of the offending stain as I could. It had been stained both black AND red in the past. The neck actually ended up becoming a bit "V" shaped from the sanding!
Here are some pictures of getting the back of the headstock flat - the pencil marks are so I could see my progress.
I've wanted to try out a Saf-T-Planer as a way to avoid sanding, to get the thickness of the headstock down to a pre-CBS dimension. It was difficult to keep the cuts even on such a small piece of wood!!
The tuner holes needed to be plugged too
I did a rubbing to get the outline from the headstock of a 22.5" scale neck
I've heard that a CBS headstock can't be turned into a 50's size headstock, but there is actually enough material there
Here it is, all done (with a non-appropriate decal from a later Duo-Sonic!)
Ordinarily, I'm very anti-headstock-reshaping, but in this case, the neck had been stained and oversanded, in addition to some sort of hippie woodburning project:
First, I tried to sand off as much of the offending stain as I could. It had been stained both black AND red in the past. The neck actually ended up becoming a bit "V" shaped from the sanding!
Here are some pictures of getting the back of the headstock flat - the pencil marks are so I could see my progress.
I've wanted to try out a Saf-T-Planer as a way to avoid sanding, to get the thickness of the headstock down to a pre-CBS dimension. It was difficult to keep the cuts even on such a small piece of wood!!
The tuner holes needed to be plugged too
I did a rubbing to get the outline from the headstock of a 22.5" scale neck
I've heard that a CBS headstock can't be turned into a 50's size headstock, but there is actually enough material there
Here it is, all done (with a non-appropriate decal from a later Duo-Sonic!)