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. Filling a few pinholes, tinting, toning, and applying the final clear coat
Filling a few minor "pinholes", tinting and toning the colour coat, and applying a final clear gloss lacquer topcoat on a white blonde "Mary Kaye" type nitro finish.
“Mary Kaye” Blonde Fender Jaguar. Change of plan – Spraying a white blonde nitro finish
I've had a while to rethink my original plans for this Jaguar, and instead of a "natural", shellacked finish - I'm going to spray a "white blonde" nitro finish instead.
“Natural Ash” Jaguar. Body preparation – Sealing the wood, and flatting-back
More essential body prep, before the enforced lay-off for my upcoming eye op. This time it's sealing and fine sanding an Ash Jaguar body.
“Natural Ash” Jaguar. Body preparation – Grain filling
The first stage of fine-finishing this swamp ash Jaguar body, is to apply a grain filler - followed by careful flat-sanding and burnishing
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