Jaguar Special HH Custom Mod Project

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So I have this body coming in to me.

Now I have this neck coming in.

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I have the toggle plate from my Kurt Jazzy and the three hole Jag plate and upper plate. This is going to be my goal for her:

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I already put a mini On/On toggle in the middle hole between where the 1meg volume and tone will go. It will be a coil splitter for the humbuckers. The Rollers will be both 500k and be connected to both pickups so I have the option to play with 1meg or 500k's. I am keeping the TOM on it most likley. The cut switch and rhythm switch are white On/On switches. Going to dowel the stop tail and add a normal trem route.

Pickups are PAF and Super Distortion from my Cobain Jazzy project.

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Chrome 70's F tuners ordered, 70's F neckplate and screws ordered, and new roller string tree ordered. Neck is set.

TheJagmaster1

awesome! 😛

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I got paint today. This amount should (SHOULD) be enough to do the whole thing as long as I avoid any oops moments. 😀

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Thanks to my little son for loaning me one of his cars to help me color match the green. 😀

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The body came today. The paint finish wasn't as bad as the pictures I was given seemed. It was blue. It looked pretty nice actually aside from some runs on the front and back.

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There was some very dry tape in the pickup areas and neck pocket.

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Took her out to the garage when kids went down to nap and got to work stripping the body.

The front took two hours. There is still sealer I need to sand off.

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The back took fourty-five minutes. (Go figure. LOL)

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Still need to do the edges, but I will save that for tomorrow. Kids woke up and my hands and wrists are worn out from scraping. LOL

Tuners came in!

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I will use my Jazzmaster template to draw out the tremolo space once I get the body sanded and stop tail holes doweled.

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The body is done being stripped. I just need to finish hand sanding all the remaining crap (sealer and paint bits) before I can work on filling those stop tail holes and getting a normal tremolo routed.

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The sides are sanded and smooth all the way around. My wife is getting me some sandpaper for my palm sander to do the front and back. I did the sides all by hand.

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(Put some of my parts on for fun. 😀)

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paltic

looking good chris...

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Thanks!! I glued dowels in to the stop tail holes. Once the glue dries I will cut them flat to the body. When I sand the top it will give me the chance to sand it nice and flat. I also used my template to mark about where the trem will go.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a tremolo rout.

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First I drilled a bunch of holes to help clear out some of the wood. (I drilled 1.25 inches down so I wouldn't accidentally go too deep.)

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I routed the upper layer with my bit and then lowered it to 1 3/8 to get it to the correct depth.

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Not bad for eye ball routing! (I have bad luck with templates so I just do it by eye.) I used a chisle to sharpen the lower corners.

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I used the template I have and drilled holes for the trem. (I figured might as well do it before painting so I won't need to risk messing or marking up the paint finish.)

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Then I went to work sanding the body.

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Put some of the parts on to see how it looks. Not too bad. 😀

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Put some masking tape in to the TOM holes so I could seal without worrying about Z-Poxy going in to the holes.

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Coat one of Z Poxy!

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Got the third coat on. After it dries later I will lightly sand it and check to see if it is flat. If it looks good, I will work on the back next.

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The neck arrived today. It looks good. The tuners were slightly larger than the holes so I had to enlarge them a little bit for the bushings and posts to fit. (Very scary drilling the holes bigger...) Fortunately it all went well. The roller is on as well.

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Only issue is since it is a US neck and the body is Japanese, the pocket is a little too big. I understand it makes no difference, so I am not too worried about it. 😀

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Front is done.

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First coat on the back is done.

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More coats of sealer on the back. 😀

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Got it all taped off and ready to paint.

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First coat of white on it for primer.

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I wetsanded the first coat of primer. I am hoping that will help the second go on really flat so the metallic paint will look awesome. It is ready to paint now. I will spray coat two tomorrow. I should know then if I need to do a third coat or not to get it smooth.

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Got coat number two on. It will need a third and maybe fourth coat because I can still see where the stop tail plugs are a little bit. My OCD wants that flat. 😀

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So there was still a little bit of line showing from the plugs showing so I sprayed some of the paint in to a lid and dabbed it on the spots. Once dry, I will sand it flat. I also dabbed a couple spots on the bottom so I can get it a bit more flat. 😀

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