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All hot but the middle one is strangely appealing.

Raining shortscales here lately:

MatthewK wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:44 pm Raining shortscales here lately

Banquo. It will be rain to-night.
First Murderer. Let it come down.
-Macbeth Act III, Scene iii

daaaamn
My favourite Macbeth is Toshiro Mifune.

plopswagon wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:35 pm All hot but the middle one is strangely appealing.

Yeah it's becoming my absolute fav.
Initially i was thinking of changing the pickguard, but now i just can't...

MatthewK wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:18 pm daaaamn
My favourite Macbeth is Toshiro Mifune.

Classic!

Pacafeliz wrote: Tue Sep 26, 2023 1:34 pm Yeah it's becoming my absolute fav.
Initially i was thinking of changing the pickguard, but now i just can't...

Yeah keep it, that’s the 70’s vibe. I imagine it has a deliciously fat neck

Disassembled, cleaned, electronics cleaned, measured for routing template and put back together.
Whew!

ooh I like that, just the right degree of wear n tear

yes, clean but worn. lovely.

Current lineup of short scales:
MIJ Mustang
MIM Stratocaster Jr. (not expensive but quite rare)
MIM Jag-Stang
Not pictured, Gibson ES140

Very nice selection!
My partner's from Port Alberni, you live in a beautiful part of the world.

@papadafoe That's a nice little group.

agreed, those are some great guitars. love the background you chose, too!

Been naughty...

How can it be a shortscale? Longest bass I own.

My two Mustangs!

Those are both pretty sick.

Cooked the pickguard on my 78 Musicmaster (complete idiot move I can't blame anyone else for) so at great expense I sourced a replacement and some 78 electronics. Seen here with the toxic MIJ Mustang.

both of those are BAD ASS.

Current state of the Squier Jaguar.



It's a vintage modified, came to me with a replaced bridge, (one of the adjustable saddle ones that's always rattling around), neck shimmed and the series parallel mod.

I swapped out the bridge for "The Offest Guitar Bridge" a sort of staytrem knock off, brass saddles, with the top and bottom strings adjustment screws secured through both sides of the bridge plate.

Latest additions are a tunable third bridge to replace the trem, and a JB Jr pickup in the bridge postion.
The JB actually came out of someone's Ed O'Brien strat, it's the neck position model of the JB Jr, not sure how well know it is that they did that? Probably to balance it with the sustainer in the neck.

I've mostly had the jag in DADGAD lately, not sure what'll be doing with the behind the bridge strings, you only get a limited range of notes, I've been kind of boring and mostly just had it in a variation of D's and A to go with droning strings. Plus one flatted fifth there to sound awful.

Unplugged clip:


I will probably see about sticking a pickup there, but will need to drill a wiring hole through to the trem cavity.