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. 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
“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...
New Project – Candy Apple Red H/H Fender Jaguar, and rationalising components for my various Jaguar builds
...just call me "Four-Jags!"...
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Re-fitting the headstock with gold hardware
Swapping out the nickel hardware on a Fender '65 Re-issue Jaguar neck, for a replacement set, in gold.
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 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...