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
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Fitting the neck to the body, and test-fitting a Bigsby B5 tremolo
After refinishing the neck for my blonde "Mary Kaye"-type Jaguar build - I can finally tap the neck with new bolt holes, and check the neck alignment with a gold Bigsby B5 tremolo unit installed. This is already becoming a quite distinctive-looking build...
Progress with a couple of Jaguar necks… Toning a PauFerro fingerboard, and prepping a re-lacquered headstock, including hardware installation
Continuing the saga of the repair, re-fit and preparation of two Jaguar necks, for a couple of my project builds. Lacquer repairs, finishing, hardware installation, and fingerboard toning
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Catching up with some lacquer repairs to the headstock
After a prolonged lay-off - the weather's finally right for nitro spraying again. Time to catch up on some long-running repairs to the lacquered headstock, for my natural blonde Jaguar build
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
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Change of plan. Repairing the finish on a different neck
After deciding to swap around the necks on my Jaguar projects again - I need to swap the hardware out on this lacquered AllParts JGRO neck. There are also a few areas of damage I need to clear up...
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Polishing the body in six *(or seven) simple steps
I want a polished finish for this ash Jaguar body - but I also want a super-thin nitro coat. Here's how I achieve a high gloss in just six, *(or seven) steps.
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