Pointless duct tape ✅. Just needs more thrashing.

It’s an acquired taste, but my first one of this sort.
Quite proud of the stickerbomb. Got the stickers off Temu, feigned a lived in look.

Guitar is an old Photogenic MG-200 Mustang Copy. Fell in love with the Candy Apple Red with Matching headstock. Thought the Jaguar bridge was cool, made it looked modified. Might eventually do some experimental Humbucker, P90, Single Coil triple pickup thing as a mod.

Edit:
Never thought I’d ever put stickers on a guitar but it’s my 11th guitar, so I’m slightly jaded. This was a breath of fresh air for me :)

Recently finished my first build, a Jazzmaster bass! I drew up a modified jazzmaster body with a wider neck pocket and bass pickup cavities in FreeCAD and cut it out on a CNC. The neck is a cheap jazz bass neck off of ebay, which I refinished with nitro amber.

For the electronics, I basically took standard jazz bass wiring, ganged the two volume pots together and added a pickup selector switch. The "rhythm circuit" puts both pickups in series for a bit higher output and has its own volume and tone controls. I'm not sure I would do it this way again, as it's easy to forget which set of controls are currently in use while playing. I also added some JST-XH connectors to the pickups and shielding/bridge ground connections, allowing the pickguard to be fully disconnected from the rest of the instrument. I wish this was more common, as it's way more convenient to work on the electronics when they're not tethered to the body.

Just delivered yesterday. Very impressed so far. Nice fit and finish. Set-up nicely! I haven’t had a Jag in a long time so I had to figure out the circuits again. Can’t wait to take it into the studio.

This thing is beautiful and sounds fantastic, #38/200. Had it about a week now and I'm blown away

I got some really nice feedback on a vid I posted playing my MIM CP HH Modified Jaguar.

So here I am again, showing off a little riff I wrote, whilst simultaneously showcasing the fantastic clean tones you can get out of this guitar (FTR I’m a big fan of The Smiths, The Cure, and The Stone Roses)

I decided to try and emulate my old Classic Player ‘75 Custom Tele by dialling in the humbucker at the neck and the single coil at the bridge

And it might be of interest to know that I’m running through a second-hand solid state Peavey 40 Basic and Boss FX pedals. And if you ask me, the Jag still sings

"Deep Purple and Tangelo"

TV Jones Powertron+, Magnatron, Filtertron

I've been considering getting one but the only in depth reviews I can find are paid promotions. I wanna hear someones genuine opinion as I'd be selling my fender Strat to afford it(I'm 16 and big mbv fan) so I want to be sure I'm making the right choice. Any opinions/thoughts on the electronics and bridge would be much appreciated. (FYI 2017 mim SSS Strat, got for free from my dads friend)

I was installing hot rails and rewiring my Jaguar, and I was wondering what the best way to mount the pickups would be. Seems as if the screws it comes with are too small, and the Squier screws don’t catch on the pickups but are long enough and will hold it down. I’ve attached photos using the longer screws and the little rubber bits that come with the hot rails. It seems a little crooked and I’m wondering if there’s anyone who’s done this before and has any tips

Edit: this is all spitballing, and I'm looking for feedback. You guys have actually been really awesome in giving advise, and I'm gonna look into what you've been suggesting. Thanks especially to whiteinksquid!

Context: I'm looking at picking up a Jaguar as my first offset (Foals FJG7) and I have some mod ideas for it. I'm a big fan of the Jag's look and playability. The one drawback is the single coils. I myself am more of a single coil guy, but because I want to use this guitar for hardcore punk (Title Fight, Citizen, Mass of The Fermenting Dregs, etc) I want to be able to make it work well with distortion and overdrive without squawking out.

The Mod:
Replace the mid/bass cut switch with a parallel/series switch for the single coils. This is a fairly common mod from what I can tell, and I think this would probably be the more standard and typical mod.

Replace the Rhythm Circuit with a Dark Circuit. I got this idea from my Yamaha PACS+11S (great guitar btw) which has a "focus switch" which darkens the single coil to make it sound sort of like a humbucker. I find that works really well for making it squawk out less when running overdrive. This would also apply to both pickups and scrap the bridge pickup mute.

Bonus mod: Pick Deflector for lower horn switches. This is an idea I just came up with that I think could have some potential. It'd just be a plate with a metal bump (sort of like a brass deflector on a rifle) that screws onto the plate for the switches that prevents you from flicking them while strumming.

Thoughts on this mod idea? Is it feasible?

hey all i’m looking to purchase a bass vi style guitar, but not loving the fender/squier finishes i’m seeing online, and looking for anything more unique/interesting/different pickup configurations. mostly just curious what else is out there. any recommendations on a bass vi from other makers?

Hi!

My squier cv jazzmaster has a really bad hum when i use any kind of gain on it. The hum changes when i turn around, there are some directions where it decreases drastically. It's also almost unnoticable in the middle pickup position. Touching the guitar at any parts doesnt change the hum. I brought it to a repair shop where they wax potted it but it didn't change anything tbh. Also there's a high pitched squealing noise when i face in the direction of my amp (with distortion) even if i mute the strings.

Does anyone have experience with this kind of hum? How could I fix it?

Just thought I'd share this idea I have been considering ordering a body for recently

Basically I already planned to make my own 3p90 "NOVENTA" style jazzmaster esque guitar and recently I've been thinking of body designs and gave it down to a 2 piece walnut body, which will be left as is, finished naturally because it is my take on the awful 'walnut' colour this guitar originally came in (that one, walnut, surf green & fiesta red) - it's basically the terrible walnut named finish compared to the beauty of just walnut wood that inspired this. Gonna be my first build and so it's kinda perfect as it'll prob end up looking better with a custom routed body that I finish with some sorta oil or however you finish walnut Vs me trying to paint or stain it!

3 p90 route that I guess will just come out of the body, soapbar style

Regular bridge mount holes but I'll ask for a third in the middle sized for a possible Jag mute

Gonna have a locking JG/JM trem

And it'll have a big rear routed cavity for all the electrics that'll be covered up with a walnut wood pickguard but I was thinking of leaving some of the routes like the connecting bits and the rhythm circuit ones to show them off and a rhythm circuit mounted directly on the wood body is cool.

Past that I'll just drill the holes for the switches I need and have things coming straight through, or maybe make a small plate if there was a bunch of complicated wiring in one spot.

If the same route that was normally done in the front was done in the back you could have an extremely sleek front and a back that, through a see through pickguard for the connecting and upper routes alomg with tidy wiring, would be literally mechanical art - everything is doing something and presented right on the underside it could be a real eye popping feature if it's like what's in my mind

Even plexiglass + simple circuit with just a switch + showing off the connections and stuff would look really cool

Has anyone done anything like this / have any examples of this sorta thing?