1969 Competition Blue Mustang

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This arrived from Canada today. 😀 So sweet. Little words first. Just pictures.

IMG_3535 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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My thoughts on this one. The finish is way more checked and yellowed than my Red one. The neck on this one is pretty "loved" but the roughness actually is consistent enough to feel comfortable. The larger frets are cool. I have to be careful to keep the high E from rolling off the edge. 😀 Just getting used to it. The tuners on this one move very well. The neck switch wasn't working and I knew the tone pot was a push pull so I got to work on it right away.

First I raised the tremolo bar. It was almost too low to get strings under. Since the adjustment screws are either full of gunk or stripped, I took the tremolo off and adjusted it from the bottom. Original color pron.

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Then I took off the pickguard to spray contact cleaner in the switch.

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(1974 neck pickup.)

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(CBS wiring looks a lot like Japanese wiring. Thin plastic stuff.)

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(The pots it had in it.)

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(Yeah.... no. I swapped those out for some 250k CTS pots and soldered it up properly.)

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All finished!

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The neck dots are a dark pearl. Very cool. MUCH darker than my red one. Not sure if that is from light exposure or just different material. The Hot Rail bridge pickup sounds really nice! Neck pickup sounds similar to my red one's pickup.

I am very thrilled with this guitar!

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Here are my two vintage comp stangs together. 😀

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Longywales

Lovely!I would love to own an antique guitar, but I'm the type of person who hates to see chips and it's almost impossible to find a perfect 60s mustang.

robertoriginal

I LOVE finishing checking like that.... and when LPB ages to that nice lake green look.. yum, very cool.

im digging the guitar.

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Me as well. It shows that it was well used. I like it a lot. 😀 It definitely got some sun in its life. 😀

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I did a side by side of red and blue. Here is blue and blue. 😀 The Japanese OTM is very similar to this Competition Blue that has greened. It is a bit lighter and as you will see the decals are different. (And the tuners since my actual '69 has F tuners.) The American tummy cut goes in deeper. Sorry for my ugly mug reflected in the picture of the back.

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Demo!