Olympic White Jazzmaster Project Done Pg. 3!

[HNB]

You might remember... my OLY Jazzy I had with the mint guard and Antiquity II pickups.... I miss it. I looked online and Japanese Jazzys have gone crazy price wise. I figure if I am going to spend that much, I would rather build it from parts to get it exactly how I want it.

I ordered an Allparts neck. Figure that should get me close to the Japanese neck it had. I will do the Antiquity II pickups again. I listened to the audio samples here and still like those a lot. The Novak ones are really good sounding to me also. I like that the bridge isn't too shrill and the neck isn't too bassy.

Body wise I just ordered an MJT body to be finished. I asked them for alder and sent them these pictures for wear. I told them I want it OLY (not custard) with a arctic white base color so the oly wears through to brighter white.

oly7 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

oly6 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

oly4 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

oly8 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

I am going to try my hand at aging the neck with my dies and such. No nasty beating or anything like that. LOL Just subtile color changes hopefully.

[Steadyriot.]

Ooooh that's a pretty guitar!
Love the binding!

[volhoo]

Very cool vibe.

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[HNB]

Allparts neck came in. I tinted it. Next I am going to wipe on some oak stain on the back of the neck to hopefully make it looks a little more brown where you would play. (NOT SUPER FAKEY BROWN.) Hopefully it works.

20190520_185337 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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[wademp]

Looks good!

[HNB]

I wiped on some oak minwax stain over the vintage amber dye and it looks amazing. WAY better than I thought it would. Here are pics.

20190520_195248 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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[HNB]

Unfinished... Dyed.... Stained.... <3

2019-05-20_08-03-35 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

[RIORIO]

I love how the figuring came out in the last pic!

[HNB]

I am really excited how the color is looking. Successful experiment.

[Steadyriot.]

The neck looks great!
Would look better with binding tho'!

[HNB]

LOL Maybe.

I used some ebony stain just on the back of the neck to dirty it a bit more than the rest of the neck. (Since it is where hands touch the most.) I am really happy with how it looks.

20190521_173455 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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[Con-Tiki!]

oly8 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

super cool, Chris.

did you ask MJT to try and match the checking? I have a white '66 Mustang that has this same, weird 70's airbrushed van pattern all over it. I love it.
Can't wait to see this one together.

[HNB]

Yeah I asked them to try to match the wear and checking of that body but less yellow in color.

[thisisnickpaige]

Dude, the ageing on that Jazzmaster is crazy good. This build will be exciting to see!

I've always dug the idea of building something to desire/spec, but then the resale value just falls through; so that's always stopped me from buying anything but genuine Fender.

[HNB]

MJT Body came in. 4.4! Super light.

20190807_200739_HDR by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20190807_200720 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

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Pickups are jazzmaster size Picasso humbuckers. I was able to get them custom wound. Neck is a little over 8k and bridge is almost 15k. They are alnico 5. The hotter pickups I like are usually that so I think they will work fine for me.

20190807_200805 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20190807_200820 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr