Silver Sparkle Jagmaster FINISHED

[HNB 56]

With the help of a forum buddy, I scored this off of guitar center cheap. I am pretty impressed. It has some dents and dings, but is in pretty great shape. I love the glitter finish. I am thinking some metal humbuckers might be next to go in.

IMG_1511 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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Slight FLAME on the neck!

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[johnnykazz 13]

Nickel or chrome humbuckers would look great in there. Awesome guitar. HNGD!

[HNB 56]

Thanks! Thinking WRHB.

[HNB 56]

The plan:

Can we fix it? Yes. Yes we can. by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Went to work taking the pickguard off and removing the electronics. I also took the neck off to clean since the body will need a little routing for the WRHB to fit.

IMG_1544 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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[foxyloxy 32]

Wide range Yay!! I love how they sound, good choice they are awesome guitars!!

[HNB 56]

Thanks!

[paltic 18]

hey Chris, nice new Jag you got there! lipstick PUs FTW!!!

[HNB 56]

[HNB 56]

I picked up a new neck from another Jagmaster. It had a Jazzmaster decal that had been applied. I figure I could put a custom decal on. If I want it to go back to stock, I can put the first neck back on.

Needed to add some clear coat before I get to adding a decal.

IMG_2196 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

This is the decal I want to use. It is from a series called Evangelion. Thought it would be fun.

Lilith by Eleventh Division LLC, on Flickr

[HNB 56]

Custom pickguard is on its way tomorrow. I got the email from Tony at Pickguardian today.

Tomorrow I am going to print out my decal to apply on the headstock. Should be really cool! I am excited to see how that turns out. Pics will surely follow.

[HNB 56]

Decal went on GREAT. I even dotted the eyes with silver. Very pleased with how it looks.

IMG_2208 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

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[HNB 56]

Spraying done! Now I need to wait for it to cure so I can wetsand.

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[HNB 56]

Pickguard came! Worked great. I had to do some minor routing to allow the larger WRHB's to fit.

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Wired up. (1meg volume and tone.)

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SEXY

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[HNB 56]

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[HNB 56]

I wetsanded the headstock. I didn't polish it because the stock neck is satin.

IMG_2357 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Added tuners and string trees and got to attaching and strings.

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[HNB 56]

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Sounds GREAT. Action is low and no fret buzz. I am very happy with how it turned out.

[HNB 56]

Sound demo.

[Al(ex) 24]

This project turned out great too HNB! OK to blog this one up too?

[HNB 56]

Totally!

[foxyloxy 32]

HNB you always amaze me.

[HNB 56]

Thanks!!

[mayajag 4]

NIce one !