Jagmaster Project - Suggestions and advice

[Moose]

I swear I will never get tired of pics of your stratoblaster So much awesome.



I was hoping I could do it that way but I wasn't sure, brilliant! Thanks a lot for your help and advice Skully, really appreciate it

[skullservant]

Think I might break it out tonight and play it, such a crazy guitar.

And no problem man. I'd just make sure of the following:

-There is enough wood in the old route that when you drill in the new bridge that the screws have something to sink into
-The bridge is straight (duh, but it happened to me, was off a few degrees)
-The new saddles sit where the old ones would have

[Moose]

I'm going to try and fill the old rout as cleanly as possible, I came across a great bit of advice on project guitar.com. They suggested that once the block has been glued in and has dried, to lightly dremel away the edges where the new wood is, and then add in wood filler. This way, when doing the finish it helps to stop the lines from showing through.

And yeah, I'm going to make absolutely certain that the bridge is straight, gonna have to wait till I have a neck on it, but it's worth it to make sure it's done right.


What I might do to make sure the saddles are in the right place is to put strings on it with the current bridge in place, get the intonation set, and then try to replicate those positions on the toploader bridge. I think that's probably the best way of doing it with minimal issues

[skullservant]

Yeah dude! That all sounds like a great plan

[Moose]

Thanks man, it's going to be a bit of a long term project as the weather's starting to go bad for spray-painting, but I'll be updating the thread as and when things get done!

[skullservant]

Sweet!!

[Moose]

So I totally just found out this exists;





It's a combined bridge and tailpiece called the Baby Grand Bridge, which I reckon looks really snazzy!

Anyone have any experience with Hipshot products? I think this would look super sexy on the jagmaster!

[skullservant]

That's rad. You'd have to drill the post holes though, would that work with the body?

[Moose]

Yeah it should be okay I would have thought, it's got a modern trem with two posts in it already.

The current plan of action is this;

-Sand body down completely
-Get the neck, fit it along with strings, adjust intonation and get it perfect
-Take measurements of saddle positions and mark on the body
-Strip it back down, including removal of old posts
-Fill in all the required cavities and holes and such
-Drill the new holes required
-paint and assemble and wire and so forth

At the moment, I can see no reason why it shouldn't work. Here's someone who installed this bridge on a Squier VM Jaguar

[Moose]

So, a little bit of an update in terms of planning.

First and foremost, I think I've found my neck:

Starcaster maple neck on ebay UK

Seems like a decent quality neck, and it's about in the price range that I want to go for.


Additionally, I've decided I'm going to buy a plain pickguard sheet, cut it to shape & size, and paint it light blue to go with a glossy bright orange body.

When this painting will take place, I don't know. Probably not any time soon due to the weather. However, what this does mean is that I can get on with the electrics, filling in cavities, etc so that's a bonus. Plus if I spread it out over time, the costs involved don't seem quite as dramatic