Tretgeraet
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I finished my Mustang last weekend and... where do I even start?
Well, maybe by linking the build threat
here
and by posting a pic of the completed guitar:
What are we looking at?
Mustang Guitar Body
Construction: Solid
Core Wood: Poplar (BONUS one-piece!)
Lam Top Wood: No Lam Top
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Control Cavity: Top Rout
Multi Pickup Top Rout: Mustang Top Rout
Bridge Rout Type: Tremolo
Bridge Rout: Mustang Tremolo w/ Mustang Bridge
Would you like Warmoth to install the bridge studs?: No
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Pocket Shape: Strat®
Body Contours: Forearm Contour, Tummy Cut
Paint Category: No Paint
Finished with Wudtone Lady Marion.
Mustang/Jaguar CBS
24" Scale Replacement Neck
Construction: Modern
Shaft Wood: Maple
Fretboard Wood: Maple
Nut Width: 1-5/8" (41mm) - Narrow
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Neck Back Profile: D
Fretboard Radius: 10" - 16" Compound
Number of Frets: 22
Binding: None
Fret Size & Material: SS6150 - Wide & Tall (Stainless)
Tuner Hole Size: Schaller/Modern Fender/Sperzel (25/64")
Inlay Shape: Standard Dots
Inlay Material: Black
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
String Nut: Standard Nut - GraphTech White TUSQ XL
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Heel Shape: Strat® Shape
Finish: None
Finished with Wudtone Vintage Neck Amber.
Also:
- Custom Warmoth Pickguard in Ruby Pearl
- Neck Screws, Neck Plate and Neck Plate Pad
- Modified Mustang® Bridge
- Mustang® Tremolo Tailpiece
- Mustang® Control Plate
- 2× Switchcraft Slide Switch, On-Off-On
- copper shielding
all from Warmoth...
The tuners (Kluson roundbacks), headstock decals, string trees, strap buttons (Schaller S-Locks), 500k log pots, wires, caps, the jack and the knobs I had already lying around.
(Btw.: I edited the headstock decals in the pics for the same reason I did on my second telly build: TMI for the internets...)
I bought a Rockinger Bellbucker for the bridge pickup position, while the neck pickup is from my very first electric guitar, which I have for 30 years and two days now (since Halloween 1995, my 12th birthday
).
The wiring I chose, with the switch closer to the neck pickup being a 3way pickup selector and the one closer to the bridge being a parallel/split/series switch for the humbucker turned out really nice and very useful!
Today we took a little walk in the park together.
A word on the finish:
I like it, although it turned out very different than I expected! And it's on of those finishes, that looks extremely different, depending on the light: Sometimes it looks like Metallic Surf Green, sometimes like Lake Placid Blue with a yellowed clear coat; sometimes it looks like a metallic version of olive drab; sometimes it looks more like a dark, smokey silver, than a green!
As I said in the build thread, the finishing kit consisted of 2 bottles of green base, 2 bottles of white base, half a bottle of "silver highlights" (small flakes) and a bottle of clear topcoat.
I started with applying 3 think coats of green mixed with white 1:1 to get a solid base. Using a 2:1, or 4:1 mix or skipping the white base all together and using only green might have worked as well for a darker finish.
Then I mixed green with the silver highlights 2:1 and applied 3 thick and 2 thin coats, followed by 5 thin clear coats.
It's not as smooth and perfect as it looks in the pictures, it's more like this:
But I think it's nice to the touch and it looks good, I actually hope it'll sink even more into the pores over time.
I'm always kind of "flexible" in my expectations and while the finished guitar looks different, than I originally imagined, I really like the result! So Wudtone made me happy again.
Ah, almost forgot about the neck finish:
It's great, love the color... but I realised I don't like to finish fretboards! It makes finishing the neck so much more work! If one prefers unfinished necks anyway that adds to the growing feeling of annoyance...
So, I'm happy with the result, but I'll never do it again!
How does it play/sound?
First of all: 24" scale feels weird if you're not used to it. I can switch between 25½" and 24¾" without feeling a huge difference, but 24" is something else somehow.
Maybe the D profile is adding to that, but I have to play it more to be sure.
Talking of weird: That Mustang Tremolo! I'm not sure if I just set it up wrong or if that thing is just... wrong... I managed to set it up so it's ok as a down only-trem, but if you pull it up, everything get's stuck, with ALL the strings being (not) close (enough) to a halfnote higher until you push it back down again. And it's so sensitive, that this already happend by accident!
However, I like that it's different. If all my guitars were the same I wouldn't have them all!
And I think it looks killer and is fairly light:
3.34kg or 7.36lbs
I have just one little regret: Jade dots would have fit perfectly...
Well, maybe by linking the build threat
here and by posting a pic of the completed guitar:What are we looking at?
Mustang Guitar Body
Construction: Solid
Core Wood: Poplar (BONUS one-piece!)
Lam Top Wood: No Lam Top
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Control Cavity: Top Rout
Multi Pickup Top Rout: Mustang Top Rout
Bridge Rout Type: Tremolo
Bridge Rout: Mustang Tremolo w/ Mustang Bridge
Would you like Warmoth to install the bridge studs?: No
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Pocket Shape: Strat®
Body Contours: Forearm Contour, Tummy Cut
Paint Category: No Paint
Finished with Wudtone Lady Marion.
Mustang/Jaguar CBS
24" Scale Replacement Neck
Construction: Modern
Shaft Wood: Maple
Fretboard Wood: Maple
Nut Width: 1-5/8" (41mm) - Narrow
Right / Left Handed: Right-Handed
Neck Back Profile: D
Fretboard Radius: 10" - 16" Compound
Number of Frets: 22
Binding: None
Fret Size & Material: SS6150 - Wide & Tall (Stainless)
Tuner Hole Size: Schaller/Modern Fender/Sperzel (25/64")
Inlay Shape: Standard Dots
Inlay Material: Black
Side Dots: Black Side Dots
String Nut: Standard Nut - GraphTech White TUSQ XL
Mounting Holes: Standard 4-Bolt
Neck Heel Shape: Strat® Shape
Finish: None
Finished with Wudtone Vintage Neck Amber.
Also:
- Custom Warmoth Pickguard in Ruby Pearl
- Neck Screws, Neck Plate and Neck Plate Pad
- Modified Mustang® Bridge
- Mustang® Tremolo Tailpiece
- Mustang® Control Plate
- 2× Switchcraft Slide Switch, On-Off-On
- copper shielding
all from Warmoth...
The tuners (Kluson roundbacks), headstock decals, string trees, strap buttons (Schaller S-Locks), 500k log pots, wires, caps, the jack and the knobs I had already lying around.
(Btw.: I edited the headstock decals in the pics for the same reason I did on my second telly build: TMI for the internets...)
I bought a Rockinger Bellbucker for the bridge pickup position, while the neck pickup is from my very first electric guitar, which I have for 30 years and two days now (since Halloween 1995, my 12th birthday
).The wiring I chose, with the switch closer to the neck pickup being a 3way pickup selector and the one closer to the bridge being a parallel/split/series switch for the humbucker turned out really nice and very useful!
Today we took a little walk in the park together.
A word on the finish:
I like it, although it turned out very different than I expected! And it's on of those finishes, that looks extremely different, depending on the light: Sometimes it looks like Metallic Surf Green, sometimes like Lake Placid Blue with a yellowed clear coat; sometimes it looks like a metallic version of olive drab; sometimes it looks more like a dark, smokey silver, than a green!
As I said in the build thread, the finishing kit consisted of 2 bottles of green base, 2 bottles of white base, half a bottle of "silver highlights" (small flakes) and a bottle of clear topcoat.
I started with applying 3 think coats of green mixed with white 1:1 to get a solid base. Using a 2:1, or 4:1 mix or skipping the white base all together and using only green might have worked as well for a darker finish.
Then I mixed green with the silver highlights 2:1 and applied 3 thick and 2 thin coats, followed by 5 thin clear coats.
It's not as smooth and perfect as it looks in the pictures, it's more like this:
But I think it's nice to the touch and it looks good, I actually hope it'll sink even more into the pores over time.
I'm always kind of "flexible" in my expectations and while the finished guitar looks different, than I originally imagined, I really like the result! So Wudtone made me happy again.
Ah, almost forgot about the neck finish:
It's great, love the color... but I realised I don't like to finish fretboards! It makes finishing the neck so much more work! If one prefers unfinished necks anyway that adds to the growing feeling of annoyance...
So, I'm happy with the result, but I'll never do it again!
How does it play/sound?
First of all: 24" scale feels weird if you're not used to it. I can switch between 25½" and 24¾" without feeling a huge difference, but 24" is something else somehow.
Maybe the D profile is adding to that, but I have to play it more to be sure.
Talking of weird: That Mustang Tremolo! I'm not sure if I just set it up wrong or if that thing is just... wrong... I managed to set it up so it's ok as a down only-trem, but if you pull it up, everything get's stuck, with ALL the strings being (not) close (enough) to a halfnote higher until you push it back down again. And it's so sensitive, that this already happend by accident!
However, I like that it's different. If all my guitars were the same I wouldn't have them all!
And I think it looks killer and is fairly light:
3.34kg or 7.36lbs
I have just one little regret: Jade dots would have fit perfectly...
