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Since Mike Stringer based his signature guitar on Kurt Cobain’s Jag-Stang and Skystang, I decided to take it a different direction.

After 6 months of designing, accumulating parts, painting and building; it is complete. My idea was to take Kurt Cobain’s design and modernize it a little bit. I love Nirvana but I wanted a Jag-Stang that I could play metal on.

Warmoth neck:
Mustang/Jaguar CBS neck
Indian rosewood fretboard
10”-16” compound
Standard thin profile
6100 Jumbo frets
Gotoh locking tuners
GraphTech TUSQ nut

Warmoth body
Bare Knuckle Halcyon pickup set
500k pots
Tune-o-matic bridge
All Parts short metal dome knobs
Custom Ultraviolet paint job

Custom Kurt Cobain neck plate
Strap locks
Custom headstock logos

After 6 months of designing, accumulating parts, painting and building; my Jag-Stang is complete. My idea was to take Kurt Cobain’s design and modernize it a little bit. I love Nirvana but I wanted a Jag-Stang that I could play metal on.

Warmoth neck:
Mustang/Jaguar CBS neck
Indian rosewood fretboard
10”-16” compound
Standard thin profile
6100 Jumbo frets
Gotoh locking tuners
GraphTech TUSQ nut

Warmoth body
Bare Knuckle Halcyon pickup set
500k pots
Tune-o-matic bridge
All Parts short metal dome knobs

Custom Kurt Cobain neck plate
Strap locks
Custom headstock logos

Need Mustang wiring help

I’m wiring up this Bare Knuckle humbucker, I’m not sure if I solder the black and bare wires into the same exact place, in the photo I’m holding the two wires in the place I think it needs to go. Is this correct? Or do I need to have the bare wire go all the way to the back of the volume pot?

Met Corey at the CT Horror convention today. I photoshopped a photo of Corey with Jimothy the Raccoon and had him sign it! Corey said he had never even heard of him. Corey said he doesn’t use social media. I gave him a copy of it as he thought it was hilarious!

So I sprayed my Warmoth Mustang neck with amber tinted nitro. I let it cure for a month but now I just can’t decide if I should use Birchwood Casey Gun Wax or StewMac Clear Coat on the neck for a finish. Any thoughts?

Clear coat inquiry:

So I just sprayed this neck with amber nitro. Would it be okay to spray acrylic clear coat on top of this?

So I painted my first guitar, and after wet sanding the final clear coat layer this whitish blotching appearing all over the entire body. Do you think this is blushing? I’m not sure. I tried wet sanding more and buffing with different grits but no dice

Can anyone recommend any Luthiers or shops that could route my Mustang body for this kind of bridge setup (pictured) or does anyone have experience with requesting certain setups from Warmoth?

So I just spray painted the guitar body a few days ago and hung it up to dry. Does anyone know what these tiny bumps are? Dust?
Can I send them out and repaint? Also if I do sand it, should I wipe it down with something before repainting?

I haven’t done any clear coat yet, this is just the paint layers

Excuse me for I am a newb. I have my (Mustang) guitar wired up exactly like this diagram except I’m stuck on connecting the humbucker. I have a Seymour Duncan JB that has 4 wires (and a bare) but this diagram shows only two on the humbucker.

The color coding on the diagram is a little confusing so I’m not sure where to put the wires. Does anyone know which colors represent the black and gold colored wires as seen on the diagram? I have the red and white taped together. Would the gold be green and bare?

Need Advice: Can I Fix the Neck?

So just for fun I bought a really cheap guitar and completely replaced everything in it. This is my trial run in modding guitars. Everything came out great but my issue is the plastic looking and feeling neck. It’s kind of sticky when played and really annoying. How can I fix this? Can I sand it down a bit? Respray it with something? Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations.

I know it’s probably tough to figure out what’s going wrong in these photos, but I followed a Cobain Mustang diagram from someone else who said it worked for them, but it’s not working for me. Is the diagram missing something? I am using a Lace Gold single coil rather than a Texas Hot

I know it’s probably tough to figure out what’s going wrong in these photos, but I followed a Cobain Mustang diagram from someone else who said it worked for them, but it’s not working for me. Is the diagram missing something? I am using a Lace Gold single coil rather than a Texas Hot

For all you painters out there:
I can’t find the exact color I want to paint my guitar. This blue/purple color. Which colors can I layer to create what I’m looking for? Excuse my ignorance

So I bought a new mustang style pick guard, but when I put the switches in the pick guard and tried to put it on the guitar, they are too close to the left side of the body cavity, so it needs to be expanded/cut out slightly to make it fit. Any suggestions on how to do this without splintering the paint? And what tools should I get? I’m new to this. I also thought about just taking it to a luthier.