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Raga's Muffinmaster Korina Jazzmaster MkII

Order status for the neck changed from "in progress" to "pickable", which I think means its getting ready to be shipped :cool:

Or maybe "pickable" just refers to a particularly nice looking nostril...:unsure:
 
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Soldered up the fuzz circuit today. Would have been really easy if I hadn't accidentally swapped two of the capacitors, which I then had to desolder and it got a little messy. I don't think I damaged anything though. Now I just have to work on getting it in the guitar.

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ragamuffin said:
Soldered up the fuzz circuit today. Would have been really easy if I hadn't accidentally swapped two of the capacitors, which I then had to desolder and it got a little messy. I don't think I damaged anything though. Now I just have to work on getting it in the guitar.

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Wait a second, those components are so small you can't even see them properly. Thy are surface mounts and you are trying to trick us by waving the soldering iron over them.
 
Spud said:
the 3 way only has two wires connected to the center lug. what gives?
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Wibbly wobbly timey wimey things! It goes beyond the scale of our minuscule human intellects!!

But really it looks like that but the black is actually hooked to the ground lug and yellow to the output lug ,which is below the ground lug on this switch (closer to the pickguard) and I haven't wired the pickups yet
 
ragamuffin said:
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey things! It goes beyond the scale of our minuscule human intellects!!

But really it looks like that but the black is actually hooked to the ground lug and yellow to the output lug ,which is below the ground lug on this switch (closer to the pickguard) and I haven't wired the pickups yet
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ah, I am just a simple spud and spaced that detail! Failed to notice the "air"pickups.
 
The pickup covers that I ordered from Guitar Madness on Ebay don't fit in my pickguard, AND don't fit one of my pickups (the Woody++ has slightly wider pole pieces than normal). I just ordered a new set from Sunday Handwound; they'll fit their pickups and hopefully they'll fit in my guard!
 
ragamuffin said:
The pickup covers that I ordered from Guitar Madness on Ebay don't fit in my pickguard, AND don't fit one of my pickups (the Woody++ has slightly wider pole pieces than normal). I just ordered a new set from Sunday Handwound; they'll fit their pickups and hopefully they'll fit in my guard!
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I have had good luck easing the edges of aluminum guards with emery boards. Just FYI

Or Al-you-minium as MayFly would say.
 
The neck has landed! It's a little light on the birdseye on the front of the headstock, but the back of the shaft is very lovely and I'm very happy with it. Now comes a labor intensive but very important section of the build: the fret dressing and polishing, and then burnishing/polishing the shaft.
:)
:)
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I'm still waiting on the tuners to arrive, as well as the new pickup covers

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ragamuffin said:
The neck has landed! It's a little light on the birdseye on the front of the headstock, but the back of the shaft is very lovely and I'm very happy with it. Now comes a labor intensive but very important section of the build: the fret dressing and polishing, and then burnishing/polishing the shaft.
:)
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:)


I'm still waiting on the tuners to arrive, as well as the new pickup covers

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I never quite understood the difference between a strat neck and a Jazzmaster one? Is the headstock slightly different?
 
Okey dokey frets dressed, shaft polished, tuners installed! I also tested out the wiring (by taping on the pickup pole pieces) and everything seems to work, other than I had wired the fuzz volume knob backwards.

Fixed that, and now I'm unfortunately waiting on pickup covers of all things :rolleyes:

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Pickup covers?? We don't need no stinkin' pickup covers!!!

I got everything full put together using tape to hold the pickups in place. The neck pickup sounds excellent! The bridge pickup isn't close enough to the strings. I think I'm going to be very happy with the tone of this guitar once I get pickup covers and can adjust the pickup height lol.

The fuzz circuit is not working correctly; makes a loud squeal. My guess is that its making contact with the shielding paint or another wire, as it seemed to work earlier.

Anyway, here she is! I'll take some glamour shots once I get those stinkin' pickup covers!

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ragamuffin said:
Pickup covers?? We don't need no stinkin' pickup covers!!!

I got everything full put together using tape to hold the pickups in place. The neck pickup sounds excellent! The bridge pickup isn't close enough to the strings. I think I'm going to be very happy with the tone of this guitar once I get pickup covers and can adjust the pickup height lol.

The fuzz circuit is not working correctly; makes a loud squeal. My guess is that its making contact with the shielding paint or another wire, as it seemed to work earlier.

Anyway, here she is! I'll take some glamour shots once I get those stinkin' pickup covers!

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Another instant Raga classic! Beautiful sir!
 
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