On the road to recovery
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:45 am
Hello folks, yep another new addict in need of guidance.
The story is - a year ago I saw an ad were a gent was selling what he called a 1965 Mustang guitar. He bought the guitar 20 years previous from a person that said he bought it from one of the band members years ago in Idaho called Paul revere and the Raiders (that is the story anyway ?). Regardless that second owner had striped the original paint off and presumably was going to repaint it, that never happened, it sat for around 30 years in its original guitar case stripped of paint (candy apple red) in the case of the gent that I bought it from. When I went to take a look at it, I was excited to see that it was not a Mustang but a Jaguar. Ever part was there and the deal was closed at $100
So now the work has begun and little by little I want to bring the old gal back to recovery.
As of now it was cleaned up of what looked to be some old primer and sanded super smooth and then prime/sealed and re-sanded were the body is ready for paint. The necks frets were in horrible condition from what looks to be a lot of playing were the fret board need to be lightly resurfaced and the frets were scared and corroded from time. So the old original frets unfortunately had to go.
I have the shoreline gold base paint that was used on this guitar as it shows gold in the pickup pockets along with the CAR overspray. I have the CAR paint also and I am just waiting to hear back from my painter for a date and time to start painting.
One question was on the headstock Fender Decal, I do want to put an original decal back on as the old owner sanded it off. Question did the pattern numbers on the headstock change for a 1 Mar 1965 B stamped neck, and if so can one buy a good quality decal with the correct pattern numbers.
It seems as I cannot post any pictures to give a visual of the guitar but maybe this is due to being new to the site but if I can hear back on this I would be to know about this question.
Cheers
The story is - a year ago I saw an ad were a gent was selling what he called a 1965 Mustang guitar. He bought the guitar 20 years previous from a person that said he bought it from one of the band members years ago in Idaho called Paul revere and the Raiders (that is the story anyway ?). Regardless that second owner had striped the original paint off and presumably was going to repaint it, that never happened, it sat for around 30 years in its original guitar case stripped of paint (candy apple red) in the case of the gent that I bought it from. When I went to take a look at it, I was excited to see that it was not a Mustang but a Jaguar. Ever part was there and the deal was closed at $100
So now the work has begun and little by little I want to bring the old gal back to recovery.
As of now it was cleaned up of what looked to be some old primer and sanded super smooth and then prime/sealed and re-sanded were the body is ready for paint. The necks frets were in horrible condition from what looks to be a lot of playing were the fret board need to be lightly resurfaced and the frets were scared and corroded from time. So the old original frets unfortunately had to go.
I have the shoreline gold base paint that was used on this guitar as it shows gold in the pickup pockets along with the CAR overspray. I have the CAR paint also and I am just waiting to hear back from my painter for a date and time to start painting.
One question was on the headstock Fender Decal, I do want to put an original decal back on as the old owner sanded it off. Question did the pattern numbers on the headstock change for a 1 Mar 1965 B stamped neck, and if so can one buy a good quality decal with the correct pattern numbers.
It seems as I cannot post any pictures to give a visual of the guitar but maybe this is due to being new to the site but if I can hear back on this I would be to know about this question.
Cheers
