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Noirie. wrote:

sunshiner wrote:

Noirie. wrote:Factfans: The guy who repaired the Jag neck also fixed Noel Gallaghers ES-355 and made some of MBV's reunion guitars.

Was it costly? Was it he who painted the headstock and put the decal? I remember the thread where you wanted to fix it yourself

Refin, new pickups wired in and headstock repair cost me £180 in total. Quick turn aswell.

Seems like a reasonable price for such a big and quality job. And Doog now has a piece of Oasis in his Mustang

Doog wrote:

Freddy V-C wrote:

Doog wrote:It's from Rob Noirie's refinished CIJ Jag; I bought it off him for a ton and flogged the clubby stock VM neck on t'Bay. I think he replaced it with the neck from the Musicmaster he had that he much preferred.

Nice! I've surprised myself with how much I love the clashing shades of blue.

I like it because it makes the guitar look like it's suffocating

Haha, it really does, in a SNES game kind of way.

sunshiner wrote:HNGD Dougart! JM is awesome. Would be even better with the gold pickguard. The Mustang is even better than JM. When you did the Seek & destroy demo of it was it with the original neck or was it with this one?

Lolz, I keep mocking it up with the gold guard, but still not convinced:



Video was with the stock neck, you can just about see the headstock and the stripey-ass fretboard:

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honestly man you knocked it out of the park with the tort guard. looks great and makes me want to score another squier between you and hurb's new toys. still not sold on 3 tone burst with gold guard. 2 tone looks good though. liked the mustang vid.

Doog wrote:

sunshiner wrote:HNGD Dougart! JM is awesome. Would be even better with the gold pickguard. The Mustang is even better than JM. When you did the Seek & destroy demo of it was it with the original neck or was it with this one?

Lolz, I keep mocking it up with the gold guard, but still not convinced:

Gorgeous.

Doog wrote:
Lolz, I keep mocking it up with the gold guard, but still not convinced:


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What the hells that bridge doing on there

Mocking over the top?

Andy two bridges, they'll call him.

Gold guard definitely best, and detracts from the grain mismatch.

It has the "IDGAF, I'm from the 50s/you wanna play music or just waste my time" vibe

benecol wrote:Gold guard definitely best, and detracts from the grain mismatch.

^this

Doog wrote:[

Video was with the stock neck, you can just about see the headstock and the stripey-ass fretboard:

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Thick toan is spot on to my amauterish ears and the end of the video suits the tune

Bacchus wrote:Andy two bridges, they'll call him.

gone off the Dirty Sprite

Nick was right about yellowing the plastics to make the gold work. That's THE MOVE

I did a mockup of that on Photoshop* but it didn't work for me; it's still that grain on the body and the clashing orange-yellows that makes it a no-go for me, broze.



*Okay... GIMP.

How about '58 style black pickup covers?

Doog wrote:*Okay... GIMP

Gimp is clearly better than Adobe Creative Retina Scan Semen Sample Shop at this point.

I’m a paint.NET kinda guy

Finally got around to putting another VM neck pickup I sourced into the bridge position, to have more balanced and “vintagey� sound; wasn’t a big fan of the overwound bridge.

Sounds great! No more massive difference in high end between the positions, just the additional lows associated with the neck position, and bringing the tone control back to 4 gets you close to the stock bridge sound.

I also sanded the logos off, looks SOOOO much better.

Aye looks grand.

damn that looks really nice