johnnyseven wrote:Get some Fender tilt back legs. I fitted some to my HRD when I had it and they worked a treat.

I've been wanting to do that to my HRD for a while now, do you have any pics? Did you use the 14" or 16" legs?

I have a scrap, but it's quite a bit smaller than that. Warmoth Brown celluloid (which looks a lot like the same material as Fender AVRI guards) is sold in 10"x12" ($34) and 10"x16" ($44) sizes. I used it on my Jag build last year since cost was a big factor.

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$2500? for that?...that's insane.

edit: Oh, I see they're Australian dollarbucks, That comes out to US$2639.50 at the current exchange rate. So, yep...insane.

I've read somewhere that the Pro Reverb is the same circuit as the Super Reverb, it just has a different speaker format. 2x12 instead of 4x10. $5000 is absurd for any amp. These can be had for much, much less.

Tidy Demo Doog!! I need a cheapass Squarewave trem. although I quite like the demos of the old Catalinbread Valcoder.

Cheers maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

The Tuna Melt is very good, but not indestructable. Maybe pick up the beefier tremolo Danelectro do (used, obviously); I'd imagine it's the same circuit ...

My next task is use a roundover bit to cut the corner on both sides of the body and then route the neck pocket and pickup routes.

Can someone confirm that the neck pocket and pickup routes are both 5/8" deep? I also need confirm that Fender used 7/16" round over bit on Jazzmasters. I have 3/8" and ...

Uh, maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but what about a Mustang with Strat pickups, or do they not fit?

I'd bet it would be pretty easy to find one on ebay with a swimming pool route and go from there.

Yes, the store had it listed on ebay for a month or two, but never got any bites on it at their listed price.

Why would you paint the neck...

I didn't. A previous owner had it in to have some new work done, and the tech decided to repaint the thing without permission while it was in the shop. There was a lawsuit, and the previous owner died. His son sold it to a shop, where I bought it. I'm going to do ...

Awesome! Love the green sparkle. It looks like a speedboat.

Yeah, there's no question, this paint is coming off. It's so damn thick, wavy and nasty feeling...the neck especially...and yes that's what she said.

I have had great luck with heat gun, lacquer thinner, and sanding--depending on the type of paint. Some enamels are just hard work with no short ...

Yeah the original would have been transparent red over metallic silver, this is just a metallic red paint. I plan on stripping it with a sanding block for the majority of the paint, and possibly using a chemical stripper just inside the cavities.

It's a July 65 neck if I remember right, the dots are MOP.

I picked this up in January, a local shop had it fs for $1795 in late December...I waited it out for about a month and their price dropped drastically so I jumped on it. It played and sounded fantastic, but it had been resprayed in a thick coat of some sort of car paint, it's close to candy apple ...

I've always wanted to do this! Sweet!

Thanks again. I've been thinking about swapping pickups at some point...possibly SD JM Antiquity II's. I had originally planned on putting Jag pickups in at some point, but that's kinda gone out the window since I was able to get hold of a '65 Jag in need of refin (thread coming shortly) for less ...

Hurb wrote: Also this one rather embarrassingly

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Holy shit, that's all sorts of awesome.

I have had my HRD for about 6 years. It definitely sounds great with an LP. My Jags or Strats can be pretty piercing through it. It's tough to describe I guess, you kinda have to fiddle with the settings, because sometimes just flipping the pickup switch(es) will take you from boomy/muddy to ice ...

I use D'Addario Jazz Lights (12 set with a wound G) on every electric guitar I have including my current Jag. I've also thrown Flatwound 12 Chromes on it from time to time as well......the "new," "old" Jaguar I'm (finally) bringing home tomorrow has some sort of 11s on it right now that didn't seem ...

Pretty sure that's how people set up spam ebay accounts. They push through fake auctions to raise their feedback...seems suspicious.