Happy NGBD! Looks cool and great color! Try a drop of machine oil or teflon tuner lube on the creaky part of the string shaft. Then put on an old set of strings and drive your family crazy by working the vibrato bar while you watch TV. Sometimes these glitches wear themselves in. I'll give it a shot!

An update - I installed the bridge and vibrato. The results weren’t great. The bridge went on well but even though I went to great lengths to get vibrato lined up right - it’s over so slightly off kilter - ugh. Also the vibrato is noisy - there is some slop in the main string shaft and it makes a cl...

Good luck with the trade - I'll admit I really dig that Charvel, but I also like the Chapman. Hopefully you get to a solution with the whole email/log in thing.

So my next step with this is to add a vibrato. I ordered a bigsby b5 copy that should get here tomorrow. I went around and around on what bridge to install and was initially leaning toward a tune-o-matic roller bridge - but honestly didn't want to deal with all the holes that would be exposed and gr...

So a little more on this one. I posted a few pics of the electronics - nothing special but all seems to work. The pickups appear to use two ceramic magnets. I installed the neck a little forward in the neck pocket to compensate for the heel/overhang issue - seems to work fine. I then worked on the n...

Bumpy ride but hoping it's smooth sailing ahead!

andrewsrea wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:08 am Let me know how the neck feels. Imports are coming in lately with a flatter fretboard radius than I like.

I've noticed this too - my latest IYV Mosrite guitar is coming in around 16". It's ok but I'd prefer a little more round.

Beautiful guitar - congratulations!

Congratulations - love it!

(I need a Gretsch.....)

I see that Nick in the States (have we heard from him?) installed a wigsby on a bullet mustang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAVqDVO_rd4 I'm not sure I want to get into routing - especially with the thin body. So I like the idea of top mounting but the Les Trem idea seems interesting. There's a D...

So the first issue I have is the neck is a 22 fret with a 24" scale. Unfortunately it was made so the heel stops at the 21st fret and the 22nd fret is an overhang. That's not how a typical jag neck is designed. I'm concerned that it's not going to intonate properly - so my options are to shift ...

Happy Easter!! I've had a chinese/ebay jaguar neck around here for a few years now and decided I needed a body to put it on. So I picked up this loaded Sonic mustang body last week. It's got a couple nicks but overall not bad. I really dig the color. Here's a pic of the body and also with the neck. ...

The old SX headstock!

So I learned that the body is supposedly made of mahogany and the fretboard is Jatoba wood.

I have been saying lately that I have too many guitars and am holding off picking any more up. Lately I've barely had time to play or practice and the last thing I need is another guitar. But we know how that works out. Picked this up today from Mac Discount - which is a warehouse that buys/auctions...

Wow I dig it @Partscaster . So I'm assuming the neck pocket is Fender spec since you used the Musikraft neck?

Congratulations! Beautiful guitar - I had the opportunity to play one of these recently at a local shop and I really liked it. I loved the neck as well.

That looks great. I'd have no hesitation on it - I have the 1478 model and it's really good.

Reading this really brightened my day.

I thought it was beautiful. Thank you!

I thought this was interesting, the BAT 2M looks pretty nice. Also saw a new SX strat and tele come up a few weeks ago. Would be great to see some new models from SX

https://www.rondomusic.com/camp.html

I ended up taking this to a tech to sort out the electronics. Luckily the bridge pickup is fine and all the components are now functioning correctly. He did a great set up on it and it plays well. The pickups actually sound pretty good. As far as playability it takes some time to get used to it as t...

Dang. Nice.

So I've used several of the individual String Swing hangers before and I think they are great. I'm currently fixing up a room in my house that will be sort of an office/tv/guitar practice room. There is one wall where I'd like to hand a few guitars, at least 3 but maybe 4. At first I thought about p...