Jag-Stang Project!

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Fab
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Jag-Stang Project!

Post by Fab » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:48 am

I got this basically for free in a terribly stressful evil-bay ordeal, and I could never get used to the Mustang pickup selection system. Initially, I was just going to just install a three way selector, but I do love frivolous switches, so I couldn't possibly get rid of them.

Both pickups are Novaks, I've drilled out one of those plastic humbucker covers (these ones) so it has holes for the screw polepieces, but it doesn't fit the pickguard so it'll have to wait. The switch above the single coil is just a 2-way phase reversal. The one above the humbucker, from top to bottom, goes: split (inside coil), series (standard humbucker), and finally parallel (big thank yous to theworkoffire and fourmations, as well as a helpful chap on the Seymour Duncan forums, for helping me out with that). I also used a concentric pot so I could still have both volume and tone controls, having installed the three way.

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10 points for the first person who can name the fellow on the side of the neck!
I intend to re-finish it at some point, and get a new pickguard that has room for the humbucker cover and a smaller hole for the phase switch. All that's a fair way off though, lots of gigs over the Sumner, no time to be re-finished!

And on the off-chance someone's interested, here'sthe wiring for the humbucker, Seymour Duncan colour coding.

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Re: Jag-Stang Project!

Post by peasy » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:54 am

cool, looks nice, not too keen on pearloid guards to be honest, but it's good to see someone modding a jag-stang, what colour are you thinking of re-finishing it? another thing i have always wanted to see on a jag-stang is  a custom guard, wth the top half shaped sort if like a jm guard, so it goes up onto the top horn, just think it would look awesome.
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