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 Post subject: New Jaguar Bass
PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:08 pm 
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Had a squier jaguar sitting around and the body was detestable so I made a new one out of pine. Started out looking like:Image
Then the unfinished body:
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And after torching it and putting a solid 10+ coats of polyurethane on it I got this:
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Lots of amateur mistakes were made but I really like the burned look on it!


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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
PostPosted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:00 pm 
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Very nice!
I did a tele like that.


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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
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Sweet!
Now it looks like a Jaguar.

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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
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Please explain why the stock one was detestable.

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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:15 pm 
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Chris Pile wrote:
Please explain why the stock one was detestable.

2 reasons
1)It was squier so not the best of wood used

2) the finish chipped off every time it was touched :P not very pretty underneath it either. Very fragile


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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 3:17 pm 
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chucksurette wrote:
I did a tele like that.


I hadn't found many examples of people burning instead of using any kind of stain so is be interested to see how that came out! It certainly is cheaper. Lol


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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
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Thedwick wrote:
Chris Pile wrote:
Please explain why the stock one was detestable.

2 reasons
1)It was squier so not the best of wood used

2) the finish chipped off every time it was touched :P not very pretty underneath it either. Very fragile


More detestable than pine?
(that should get an argument started)

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 Post subject: Re: New Jaguar Bass
PostPosted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:37 pm 
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Chris Pile wrote:
Thedwick wrote:

More detestable than pine?
(that should get an argument started)




Pine is said to give a warm tone and I have flatwounds on this thing so I'm going hard on the warm sound. So hard, in fact, that the intensity of the warmness actually seems to have burned the wood. ;D
Admittedly I can imagine pine on a guitar wouldn't be the most beautiful sounding thing.


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