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A Jazzmaster build for my 17 yr old, pretty standard stuff with Mojo J90s and a Wilky-pattern bridge, the neck will be angled to suit.
The bridge will have saddles shimmed to make it's radius match the neck. Worked out the shim thicknesses, I'll use spare feeler gauge leaves to make shims.
Fat ol' slab of ash. My boy made the template, bandsawed & routed the outline. Then with two bands and other things happening I ended up taking it on.
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/02_jm_routed.jpg
Cavities etc
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/03_routed.jpg
Bought a paddle-head neck to save time but hope to make a chunkier neck later on.
It was going to be gloss black but not sure what the final colour is now so might need a new p/g.
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/04_parts.jpg
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Neck pocket done. Calculated the angle of the dangle with an online triangle calculator and set the template up using digi calipers and wedges, hot glue to hold it. I love hot glue..
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/05_neck_template.jpg
Gave the body a guide coat of rattle-can black. A DIY sanding block, you can buy these but they're piss-easy to make. If it goes out of square just plane it flat again, if a plastique one warps it's twenty quid in the can. Steel tube, PVC pipe, car hoses etc make good cylinder blocks too.
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/06_sanding.jpg
Sand away. That fuzzy blob shows a low spot, can't be felt with the Mk1 Human Finger but it'd show up with a gloss paint job if not flatted out.
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/07_sanding.jpg
Quick mockup to check
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/08_mockup.jpg
Bit more done but delayed. Ligament damage to shoulder. "Excessive internet banking" I think the doc said, summat like that...
My boy's 18th coming up soon, was trying to get this done in time but it's not going to happen unless I do a couple of very late nights at the weekend, maybe. Made this firepit for him out of scrap & spare stuff, reclaimed tube, handles are bits of car headrest frame etc
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/firepit.jpg
I sealed & grain filled the body with 2k clear with a slight gold & yellow tint, sanded that all back smooth. The ash looked nice but he wants something like oxblood.
Gave it a thin coat of celly shoreline gold as a groundcoat -
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/09_shoreline.jpg
But too pale, so added some gold candy to beef it up and laid on another thin coat -
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/10_mod_gold.jpg
Next up body colour, hopefully the next few days...
(I'm biased)
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff193/guitarsforminnaars/BBCB54FD-9A5F-4699-8475-FB3B0C7E6C50.jpg
Well that was going right, then wrong in a hurry, the gun had an ebola moment and spattered & dripped out of various orifices... so wipe it off, back to square one... Sand, another quick sealer coat, sand, back with a super thin coat of shoreline gold.
Delayed also with doing a house clearance for one of the outlaws, tons of stuff stashed in my place.
Mixed up oxblood-ish again. First coats took it to a nice metallic pink candy, I coulda left it there happily but not what he wants.
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/11_pink.jpg
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/12_pink.jpg
Then a darker pink. Again I liked it but hey
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/13_pinker.jpg
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/14_pinker.jpg
More coats and we're into oxblood - hard to show the colour because of the strong light and the shit cam operator -
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/15_ox.jpg
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/16_ox.jpg
This is the money shot. The candy glow when light hits -
http://www.alleykat.co.uk/images/stuff/jazzmaster_n/17_ox_glo.jpg