Drilling my H/H Jaguar body for a tremolo. Ensuring the tremolo and neck are fitted straight and true.
Candy Apple Red H/H Fender Jaguar. Setting the neck, and test-fitting the tremolo bridge
Candy Apple Red H/H Fender Jaguar. Sealing and priming the body for nitro lacquer
Prepping a two-piece, alder, "reissue" style Jaguar body - ready for spraying a candy apple red, nitro lacquer paint job
Customised Fender USA “Original ’60’s” Jaguar – Final specification.
Combining the classic lines of a Fender Vintage re-issue Jaguar, with Creamery "Alt-88" pickups, and "Johnny Marr" style, 4-way switching
Customised Fender USA “Original ’60’s” Jaguar – Setup tweaks after new neck installation
Having changed the neck on my Candy Apple Red Jaguar - I now need to dial in the neck action, and check all of the previous setup perameters
Customised Fender USA “Original ’60’s” Jaguar – Reverting to the original plan, and a Fender, American ’65 re-issue neck…
"You put the hardware on - you take it off... On... off... on... off..." ...reverting to my original plan
Customised Fender USA “Original ’60’s” Jaguar – Setup
Setting up and personalising the action on my customised "Original '60's" Fender Jaguar
Custom built Fender Jaguar USA. Building the tone circuit, and wiring-in the pickups
I can finally see well enough to drop some Creamery "Alt 88"Jaguar pickups into my Custom spec Fender "US Original '60's" Jaguar. I'm wiring them up with a "Johnny Marr" schematic, and I'm especially looking forward to testing out the additional "neck and bridge in series" combination.
Custom Fender Jazzmaster. Polishing the re-painted body
Polishing up the nitro clearcoat on a repainted, Fender Squier J. Mascis Jazzmaster body. The original "Antique White", body has been re-finished in a custom "Candy Apple Red". (Translucent Red over "Shoreline Gold").
Custom built Fender Jaguar USA. (Re)-fitting a Fender Mute
I've got a couple of small jobs scheduled this week. First off - I want to replace the Fender Mute on my CAR Original '60's Jaguar...
Custom built Fender Jaguar USA. Fitting a customised, bound and block-marked neck
Fitting my customised Musikraft Jaguar neck onto my Candy Apple Red "Original '60's" Jaguar body. Featuring some new Gotoh SD-510 tuners, and a StewMac neck shim.
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