NRD (New refin day)
- smjenkins
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NRD (New refin day)
There's been so much talk about the price of vintage JMs and the price of refins, and what refinishing does to the value of a vintage guitar lately that I had to bite my tongue about this project while it was in the works. Back in 2020 I got my first vintage JM. It was a '62 refin from CME and they gave me a pretty reasonable deal at the time (now it seems like crazy deal).
I know only a cretin would refinish an original burst , but some other cretin already got to this guitar. When I got it, the finish was a brownish, unsaturated BMM without a matching headstock, even though the neck was also refinished. The details are in the gbase listing (https://www.gbase.com/gear/fender-jazzm ... llic-refin) but basically aside from the refin, it is all original save for the volume & tone pots and the 3-way switch. Here's what is looked like:
I knew I wanted an already refin'd guitar so I wouldn't feel guilty refinishing it again to be sherwood green. MJT did an OK job. I'd give them an A+ for communication, a B+ for doing what I wanted (they didn't make the maple parts of the neck shiny lacquer like I asked) and a B for finish quality.
Anyway, here's the finished product (see what I did there?). The color is really hard to capture. It's somewhere between aged sherwood and cadillac green. I swapped out the fairly shrunken tort guard for a mint AVRI guard. I also added a 1 degree StewMac shim and a Mastery and it is now setup to perfection.
I know only a cretin would refinish an original burst , but some other cretin already got to this guitar. When I got it, the finish was a brownish, unsaturated BMM without a matching headstock, even though the neck was also refinished. The details are in the gbase listing (https://www.gbase.com/gear/fender-jazzm ... llic-refin) but basically aside from the refin, it is all original save for the volume & tone pots and the 3-way switch. Here's what is looked like:
I knew I wanted an already refin'd guitar so I wouldn't feel guilty refinishing it again to be sherwood green. MJT did an OK job. I'd give them an A+ for communication, a B+ for doing what I wanted (they didn't make the maple parts of the neck shiny lacquer like I asked) and a B for finish quality.
Anyway, here's the finished product (see what I did there?). The color is really hard to capture. It's somewhere between aged sherwood and cadillac green. I swapped out the fairly shrunken tort guard for a mint AVRI guard. I also added a 1 degree StewMac shim and a Mastery and it is now setup to perfection.
- Unicorn Warrior
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Re: NRD (New refin day)
Good looking guitar. Where’s that original tort?
- smjenkins
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Re: NRD (New refin day)
That's a subject for a different post.
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Re: NRD (New refin day)
Ah, so the original decal got stripped off in refin #1.
Looks good. Doesn’t look very Sherwood, but a cool color.
Looks good. Doesn’t look very Sherwood, but a cool color.
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MJT did it? Where are their signature scratches?
Looks great. That is an awesome colour.
Looks great. That is an awesome colour.
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Emerald City!
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N A S T Y AF
Seriously oh my god this is one of the coolest guitars I’ve ever seen!
Seriously oh my god this is one of the coolest guitars I’ve ever seen!
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Re: NRD (New refin day)
Seeing this was instrumental in a recent decision.
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Shhhh....smjenkins wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:55 pmDoes that mean this one is going green?
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- smjenkins
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Re: NRD (New refin day)
My lips are sealed but my heart is a flutter.marqueemoon wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:58 pmShhhh....smjenkins wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:55 pmDoes that mean this one is going green?
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