My RobertOG Mustang Project (DONE - Pix/Video page 7)

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:48 pm

We lost all our content (again).

Updated October 4th 2008!

VIDEO:
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robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:53 pm

hooray for bringing back threads.
boo! for shitty servers buttfucking us!

Post by **Mike** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 2:58 pm

It will always be resurrected!

My folks are back this weekend so expect some more progress on Monday/Tuesday next week.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:46 am

That's a nice board. Keep bringing it.

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:09 am

Looks great! What color are you going to finish it in?

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:51 am

Whoops, double post.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:58 am

sexy stang is sexy...

what colour?
white?

iCEByTes · Post by **iCEByTes** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:53 am

holy shit dude

thats what i call hardcore shortscale monster

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 6:34 am

in b4 rahbro "thats not a mustang fuck shit assssss ill rub my shit on it cuz i hate gold guards but yours is tort ahhh fuck BEEERRRRRR hilary broke my computer oh fuck HOCKEY/FOOTBALL/BREAKINGSHIT"

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:19 am

It's going to be either a Crisp (i..e not Yellowed Arctic White) White or a Translucent White so you can see the grain, I'm still unsure about it and have a little bit of fine tuning before I break the guitar down and start the finishing process. I should be able to get some strings on it and wire up the pickups in a couple of weeks so I'll make a demo video of it in it's "naked" condition then

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:48 pm

What's the story with the neck- is that some sort of tilt adjustment mechanism? Where'd ya get it/ how much?

Looks great so far.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:53 pm

It's a Warmoth neck, they made it from scratch. took FOREVER though. They quoted 4-6 weeks and it took from September until March which is not 4-6 weeks.

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/nec ... ustang_cbs

Price depends on what you go for. I went for a 24" Mustang neck with Large Headstock + Gloss finish, with installed nut and Vintage spec frets.

The side adjustment is a truss rod adjustment that doesn't involve pickguard removal/routing:

http://www.warmoth.com/guitar/necks/nec ... sideadjust

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:07 pm

Hmmm that's actually not too expensive. I'd go for non-showy woods too. No need to be a ponce.

I'm getting a friend to make a repro neck with a playable profile/non jaggedy fret ends for one of these orrible Musima guitars. But that's another story...

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:17 pm

yeah, I hate flamed shitty maple. I wanted something really simple and it is a great neck, just took a while to get here.

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:43 pm

Holy shit, 6 months! At least it turned out good. I fuckin' hate any flame or quilt maple, too.

Looking forward to seeing the finish and demo.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:48 pm

The first neck they made for me apparently had loads of orange peel issues and they kept on sanding down and reglossing it to no avail. They were pretty poor at keeping in touch with me but to their credit once I phoned them they turned it around very fast.

astro · Post by **astro** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:38 pm

The grain on that body is simply phenomenal! It would look aces with a semi-transparent colour like Mary Kay White (I think that's what it's called...?) or blonde/butterscotch.

How heavy is the body? I have an ash bodied P-bass, which is as light as a feather (Well, almost. But it's as light as my basswood RI 'stang!). But my ash bodied mustang weighs a ton.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:49 pm

It's fairly hefty like, you know when you're holding it. I'll know more when we whack the neck on it some time next week hopefully.

It's a great slab of wood - Robert really spoiled me with his selection.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:04 pm

Nice.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:18 pm

its a single piece of ash, pretty rare to see a single piece of ash, well not really but i like to pretend, it looks pretty anyway,
i still think it would look really cool as a white wash sort of deal where you can still see the grain, but in a tasteful manor.