What's on your workbench right now?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:05 am

Tortoiseshell might look good, Perry. Which one do you have? Some if theirs is dark amber and some is red, not to mention the tiger stripes.

Nice job on the whammy bar, SuperAxe.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Perry » Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:44 am

Rgand wrote:
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Tortoiseshell might look good, Perry. Which one do you have? Some if theirs is dark amber and some is red, not to mention the tiger stripes.
I have the four-ply tortiseshell material. I hesitate to use it because a sheet is now about 40 bucks. Towards the end of this week, I'll post a photo of the piece I have next to the guitar. That may help me decide.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:56 am

I look forward to seeing that. It might be really good.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by CROSS_guitars » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:35 pm

Squier Jaguar HH.

Fiesta red.
I cut the mint pickguard for it today.
It's the real intense mint too, which normally is too much but it works so well here.
Zebra pickups are replaced with White Jagmaster Duncan Design Humbuckers, which are the same really.
I also moved the switch down.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Jun 10, 2019 10:57 pm

Lovely Jag Cross! I love the color scheme with the concentric pots too!!
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:01 am

I really like the fiesta red/mint combination. I can't say I'd have thought of trying it.

Regarding those concentric pots, I tried to find some for guitar application but was only able to find bass ones. I even ordered some 500K ones but they have a detent in the center of the adjustment range on both functions. What are the specs on those and where did you find them?

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by CROSS_guitars » Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:33 am

Rgand wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:01 am
I really like the fiesta red/mint combination. I can't say I'd have thought of trying it.

Regarding those concentric pots, I tried to find some for guitar application but was only able to find bass ones. I even ordered some 500K ones but they have a detent in the center of the adjustment range on both functions. What are the specs on those and where did you find them?
The pots come stock with the Jaguar HH.
I don't really know much about them apart from that. They would be 500k.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:45 am

CROSS_guitars wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:33 am
Rgand wrote:
Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:01 am
I really like the fiesta red/mint combination. I can't say I'd have thought of trying it.

Regarding those concentric pots, I tried to find some for guitar application but was only able to find bass ones. I even ordered some 500K ones but they have a detent in the center of the adjustment range on both functions. What are the specs on those and where did you find them?
The pots come stock with the Jaguar HH.
I don't really know much about them apart from that. They would be 500k.
Thanks. Now I can find some. Much appreciated.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Perry » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:03 pm

Rgand wrote:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:56 am
I look forward to seeing that. It might be really good.
I went ahead and made a pickguard out of tortiseshell. I'm undecided, and there is still some work to do on it. Any opinions?


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I'll try to post a photo on Friday of the pickguard with the hardware on the guitar.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:08 pm

Man, that's so close! It needs all the doo-dads to really be able to tell. That's nice tort, for sure.

It almost needs something that isn't glossy. Maybe take a drop scrap of that and shoot satin clear on it to see.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by nnieman » Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:36 am

Perry wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:03 pm
Rgand wrote:
Mon Jun 10, 2019 6:56 am
I look forward to seeing that. It might be really good.
I went ahead and made a pickguard out of tortiseshell. I'm undecided, and there is still some work to do on it. Any opinions?


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I'll try to post a photo on Friday of the pickguard with the hardware on the guitar.
You that's the one.
For sure.

Nathan

p.s. that looks fantastic!

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by valley_parade » Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:13 pm

JakeNelson2002 wrote:
Fri Jun 07, 2019 7:45 pm
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Well this looks promising.

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by chrisrnps » Thu Jun 13, 2019 3:36 pm

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Work in agonizingly slow progress: the Jagmaster-blaster-thinline-something aka “Instrument.” *

* instead of headstock decals I’ve got a vintage Chris-Craft toggle-switch “Instrument” mini-plaque to go where “Fender” would be, and a vintage “thanks for your salesman years or service” “Five Years” Chris-Craft lapel pin to go where the little “Offset Body” decal would go. Because my name is Chris, and unsubtle Bowie reference.

Just have to do a last round of body sanding and then it’s being mailed off for body and matching headstock finishing - I’ve learned the hard way I don’t have the patience to watch paint dry, so it needs to be out of my hands.

Saylor body with a lot of modifications (bridge post holes too small and too close together, upper horn control cavity too shallow, etc., plus wood blocks added and other bits removed to accommodate my “Jag plates on a Jazzmaster body” folly).

I got so stuck on a “must have binding on the f-hole, oh, and I don’t like the existing usual-suspect f-hole shapes anyway” thing that a Warmoth body, Bilt, and several other options went out the window - took me more than one acoustic guitar’s worth of binding mishaps to get the “bending without melting into a helix shape” thing right.

Warmoth neck, stainless frets, roasted maple, ebony, B&B
LSR roller nut
Mastery everything, stainless everything except pickup rings (aluminum) and locking tuners (dunno).
Lollar WRHBs, lo-wind neck.

Paint will be pearl white. Sure, it’ll look like a wedding cake frosted with Prince’s protégées’ lingerie. In the middle of a personal “I’m so goth all guitars must be black” to “all my guitars are white now, but basses can still be black” backlash. So sue me. ;D
'Excellent! A little more practice will make you a regular whale. Now, if I may trouble you to unlace my back and front plates two holes more, I'll try that fascinating bend that you say is so easy. Won't Painted Jaguar be surprised!' ~ Rudyard Kipling

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Re: What's on your workbench right now?

Post by Rgand » Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:11 pm

I like that Jagmaster-blaster-thinline-something. Looks great! Pearl white should be nice.

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