What's on your workbench right now?
- MC3
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Here's my current project, in my parents basement as I'm home from school for the foreseeable future
Squier J Mascis neck and pickguard going onto a Classic vibe body with an AVRI Vibrato. I liked the neck on my JMJM and I don't mind the sound of it, but I wasn't a huge fan of the color and it was kind of heavy. This body is much lighter, and I'm a sucker for sunburst. My Am Pro bridge came in and I started piecing it together.
Soldering is still a somewhat new thing to me, and I'm a bit confused on grounding (?) but I'm keen to start on it. Quick question though, has anyone had experience with the JMJM pickguard going onto a a body with the traditional bridge? Doesn't seem like its gonna fit smoothly without a little bit of filing.
Could also go for a new pickguard, but I kinda dig the 50s vibe of the gold on the sunburst
Squier J Mascis neck and pickguard going onto a Classic vibe body with an AVRI Vibrato. I liked the neck on my JMJM and I don't mind the sound of it, but I wasn't a huge fan of the color and it was kind of heavy. This body is much lighter, and I'm a sucker for sunburst. My Am Pro bridge came in and I started piecing it together.
Soldering is still a somewhat new thing to me, and I'm a bit confused on grounding (?) but I'm keen to start on it. Quick question though, has anyone had experience with the JMJM pickguard going onto a a body with the traditional bridge? Doesn't seem like its gonna fit smoothly without a little bit of filing.
Could also go for a new pickguard, but I kinda dig the 50s vibe of the gold on the sunburst
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
i have the feeling that need some filing !
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
That's an interesting one. How does that neck attach? Does the neck have a step on it to keep it from slipping too deep into the pocket?
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a little more ,i wait to have made my vibrato plate to make the guard for
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I honestly have no idea. That's the only bit I have from what obviously used to be a snazzy Tonika bass:
It seems somebody enlarged the pickup cavities at some point, and maybe tried to fit a new pickguard on the thing, but I don't think they touched the neck pocket, which only has two screw holes. I'll take more pictures of it. But this thing is so fucking weird I feel I have to bring it back to life, somehow.
It was given to me by a customer who told me I might be interested in that, uh, 'thing he got at a car boot sale twenty years ago'. Pretty cool stuff.
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router enraged for routing the body !
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I did a search and evidently it's Soviet-made. The neck does look like it has a notched heel. What a cool project. I look forward to seeing how you do with it.epizootics wrote: ↑Tue May 12, 2020 11:53 amI honestly have no idea. That's the only bit I have from what obviously used to be a snazzy Tonika bass:
It seems somebody enlarged the pickup cavities at some point, and maybe tried to fit a new pickguard on the thing, but I don't think they touched the neck pocket, which only has two screw holes. I'll take more pictures of it. But this thing is so fucking weird I feel I have to bring it back to life, somehow.
It was given to me by a customer who told me I might be interested in that, uh, 'thing he got at a car boot sale twenty years ago'. Pretty cool stuff.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
^^^According to my trusty "Electric Guitar In The USSR" reference work: "...the three-piece beech neck is connected to the body with two bolts only, drilled through a recessed metal neckplate into a plate that's immured below the fretboard and doubles as a truss rod stopper." (Also, 31.5" scale, apparently...)
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
Looks nice. What finish are you planning for it?
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some works to do to be use
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Vary few light coats of amber shellac.
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Re: What's on your workbench right now?
That should be really cool.
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