Building John Squire's Custom Jag?

Soloshchenko

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Hi there, I was considering building one of these beasts, built for Stone Roses guitarist John Squire by a Manchester luthier:

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Rumour has it the shape is actually a Jazz Bass body? If so, that would make it a relatively (maybe) project to do? I've always loved this instrument and was thinking of building one. Perhaps modding a Jag would be a better idea.
 
That lower bout horn does suggest a Jazz Bass body.

You'd have to find all the specs of that guitar and submit it to Warmoth to see if they can mix'n'match a Jazz Bass body to the Jaguar hardware.

If it's only 24.5" scale (like Jaguars usually are), that would look odd on a Standard Jazz Bass body. Neck would look very small.

Better pics of that custom Jag to share? Maybe a link to a story?
 
Here's a good link. The guy here had one made up by the luthier and he seems to suggest it was a 'bass body' in the article

http://www.pdmcauley.co.uk/guitaristpages/guitar/GUITARS.html

The reason I used the pic at the top is to get some scale on the size of the thing. Does this guitar not look big to your eyes? It does mine. The more I look at it the more I think it's just a white Jazz body rather than something that's been custom cut.
 
Here's the back which makes me think 'jazz bass body' more than any other pic

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Look how much body is left below the trem cavity on this picture in comparison to a std strat. Thats a big body!
 
I would be more apt to say its just a custom body made the shape of a bass. Seems to me it wihld require just as much if not more to modify a bass rather than just make one from scratch... :dontknow:
 
The top horn on the guitar is pointier, and the cutout for the hand on the bottom is wider. I have two links for various Fender body shapes. There are a large number of identical listings, and there's no certain guarantee that they're perfect either.

http://shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=38813

http://www.gitarrebassbau.de/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6&start=0

It would be beyond the scale of luck to find them drawn identically sized, but you may at least be able to find a drawing of each with some sort of inch scale provided. In those two drawings, the belly cutaway on the bass extends well past the top of the neck plate, and you just couldn't get to that guitar from that bass - but you surely can see the seasonings. I don't know what your eye for shapes is like, but if you can just print off some jazz bass outlines, and whatever pictures you can find of the guitar, and get a soft pencil and a good eraser, and just start working on the horns till you get there... this kind of thing I blow up the scale to full size (a roll of 18" by 20 yard graph paper helps) and hang the thing up on the bedroom wall, with the eraser and pencil at hand. And just poke it a little one way or another over a period of time. After a while, it gets to be as good as it ever will. Warmoth does sell a big ol' blank, but with the routing in it.

http://www.warmoth.com/Guitar/Bodies/BodyBlank.aspx

I'm not alone in being temped to finish one off - just like that. :icon_jokercolor:
 
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