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late 50's Silvertone 1304. A favorite player, and that middle pickup position gives it quite the unique tone.

Maybe some of you remember, I mentioned that I was refinishing my partner's MIJ jag as she wanted it to look like the thurston moore signature jazzmaster.
wet sanded and polished the body and then rewired everything with cloth wire - restring tomorrow and a setup before we go to rehearsal!
So happy with how it has turned out.

Next step is the maple neck with black block inlays and binding

Will you be selling that neck?
More importantly, DAT STAIN!
What did you use?

wildebelor wrote:Next step is the maple neck with black block inlays and binding

nicely done. my tm jm is my favorite finish...or its tied with my blue lr jm.

No sale on the neck, it'll move to another jag body
green stain was a mix I made up myself + shellac!

60s 1416 Silvertone with dolphin headstock. Set up for playing slide.

Man those bridges are pretty cool!
I'm very interested in lipsticks…
Elaborate on your experience!

wildebelor wrote:No sale on the neck, it'll move to another jag body
green stain was a mix I made up myself + shellac!

Ah cool.
Was that mix from a brand of stain, or did you witchcraft that out household MacGuyverings?

wildebelor wrote:Man those bridges are pretty cool!
I'm very interested in lipsticks…
Elaborate on your experience!

Yeah, atm i'm actually looking for the replacement rosewood saddle that I bought for the 1416....i hate when things get moved without my prior consent. Anyways, there is something special about their hollow bodies, material, rosewood saddle, metal nut, and them lipstick pups that really puts out a unique sound that draws me towards these old silvertones....i've got quite a few. The thing about these vintage lipsticks is that they are low output, so...for instance they are not going to push my vibro champ into that delicious distortion. But its nothing drastic otherwise and they work great with pedals. in fact my main guitar is a silvertone 1448, which came with the 3 watt tube amp in case...another treat for the ears. Its not quite 3/4 scale but its such a comfortable player. its odd, but not one of my silvertone's are the same scale length.

It started off as a fairly crappy colour from a paint store, I mixed it to taste and got pretty close.
BUT, we found it was too cool in shade so I then put about 7 coats of shellac over the top and it made it really come out.
Very happy with it - I'll get some better photos tomorrow once it's strung and you'll be able to see just how nice and rich the colour is!

Cool man, looks classy.

Fuck me there are some beautiful guitars on this page.


UG, I'm jealous of you for having (at least) two Silvertones those two are absolute beauts!


As for the finish on that jag... Sterling work, looks awesome




Ugh I need more nice looking guitars/projects

Here is my 60s Silvertone 1457 with amp in case. 5 tube watts and tremolo

Here is one of my 60s Silvertone 1448 amp in case combo's. 3 tube watts. This is my backup here.

I always forget that those are different scale lengths. The single pu versions are 23" or something like that, yeah?