School me on Mustangs

suspiciousminds

The B width neck on my bronco is lovely to play, and the neck on my jsgstang is awesome (supposed to be a copy of cobains favourite mustang neck).
I must admit i do miss my mij 69ri mustang a lot - it was just so comfortable.
I'de easily have another mustang.

JD50

I've early 70's Mustang, I believe it was a comp stang that has been refinished.
The switches can be dropped deeper with longer screws and washers if you find yourself hitting them accidentally.
My mustang is light as a feather and really resonate. The trem stays in tune just fine so long as you are realistic and accept its limitations, its not a Floyd! There are some helpful youtube videos on set ups.
I used to own a MIJ, also a great little guitar but different. The pick ups in the MIJ were good, I believe there are 2 types of pup used for the MIJ, the 65 & 69 ri's with one type of pup being thought of as better, least that's what the internet told me.
I also owned a vintage musicmaster for a short time, fun guitar but it was an A width neck and that's no good for me.

Some info
http://fendermustangstory.com/

Also www.shortscale.org/forum
Www.offsetguitars.com

Great sites for set up advice etc

Voxman

Nice Muscle Car - bit thirsty though!   >:D<

littlethoughts

Oh Oh Oh!

Fender Cyclone. Strat Tremolo, normal pickups and switching with a switch in a slightly better spot than the pawn shop mustang. A nice example on ebay at the moment, and a squier one too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301462688682?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Cyclone-2006-In-Black-Electric-Guitar-/141522023110?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20f35eb2c6

I've always loved the ones with jaguar single coils though...it does lots of sacrilegious things but looks stunning to me.

ICBM

The problem with the Cyclones is that to get the Strat trem in, the body has to be the full thickness and weight, which ruins that nice Mustang feel.

meltedbuzzbox

love the cyclone!

it has a gibson scale length as well bizarrely 

edit: Cyclone 2 I meant, I dont like the first model

suspiciousminds

That cyclone 2 looks a stunner.
Its on my wants list!!

ThePrettyDamned

ICBM said:

The problem with the Cyclones is that to get the Strat trem in, the body has to be the full thickness and weight, which ruins that nice Mustang feel.

That's as may be, but the picture above gave me an erection. 

grungebob

The problem with the Cyclones (I've owned 2) is that somebody at fender got their maths wrong and they won't intonate correctly, the bridge is just a few mm too close to the neck meaning you run out of backwards travel on the saddles for the G and B before they intonate. It is annoying as I love these guitars otherwise but as slight as the problem may be it bugs me as I can always hear it.

Handsome_Chris

HAL9000 said:

You want Mustangs...?

And that young airplane enthusiast grew up to be Batman.

GavRichList

Such a great film. I believe it is actually Bale singing too.

Handsome_Chris

Never seen it! Am I going to have to watch it?

GavRichList

It's a long old slog, but great, in a Sunday afternoon kinda way.

littlethoughts

grungebob said:

The problem with the Cyclones (I've owned 2) is that somebody at fender got their maths wrong and they won't intonate correctly, the bridge is just a few mm too close to the neck meaning you run out of backwards travel on the saddles for the G and B before they intonate. It is annoying as I love these guitars otherwise but as slight as the problem may be it bugs me as I can always hear it.

I've heard the same complaint with the baritone telecaster. In that case it can be remedied by sawing off 1-2 mm of the saddle screw so the string doesn't hit it. Is it a similar issue or does the saddle simply hit the back of the bridge before intonated correctly?

I suppose the other solutions are to try a different bridge with more travel, different string gauge or maybe a different nut? don't some graphite and roller nuts "finish" a smidge higher up the neck than a standard bone nut?

guitargeek62

I'm going to miss my Squier VM one, it's not "perfect" but it's a fun little guitar and they really do sound great. I'll certainly have another one someday, though I'm tempted to save that "slot" for an original Competition Stripe model.

grungebob

@littlethoughts unfortunately it's the back of the saddle hitting the rear of the bridge

GavRichList

There's plenty of footage of a younger, skinnier me playing a mustang on a very big stage to a few thousand in Berkshire... I fully endorse them. Would definitely have another again.

littlethoughts

littlethoughts said:

Oh Oh Oh!

Fender Cyclone. Strat Tremolo, normal pickups and switching with a switch in a slightly better spot than the pawn shop mustang. A nice example on ebay at the moment, and a squier one too.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301462688682?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fender-Squier-Cyclone-2006-In-Black-Electric-Guitar-/141522023110?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item20f35eb2c6

I've always loved the ones with jaguar single coils though...it does lots of sacrilegious things but looks stunning to me.

One of these bad boys just cropped up on ebay in london, for collection though...