I am curious about a pine Explorer with PAF-ish dealies and 25 1/2" scale length..
I love Explorers..
I need one..

Well, i have like three different strat-style 25.5" scale necks here, probably one or two of them will actually be usable in a guitar. So i was thinking, i don't need a strat. I don't want a 25.5" Mustang. Hmm. I could work with a Jazzmaster.

Went looking, found a blueprint.

Holyshit. The Jazzmaster is Fucking Huge.

I knew it was big, but damn.

This is a Jazzmaster body overlaid... on a P-Bass. They are really close to the same size.



Actually, if you shift the JM forwards so the body contours are more closely aligned, i think the Jazzmaster might be bigger.

I still think that i am going to aim to build one, but shit. I will have to find some more wood.

That is why they have so much toanes.

Jazzmasters are the indie music equivalent of Explorers to metal.
Also, I take a small bit of pleasure in the fact you are building a Jazzmaster ...

Suuuuper dope.

I have wanted one ever since a few years back when i played one that belonged to a surf dood i did some drumshizz for. Playing it, it doesn't feel that big, but really, it is.

But they do have an awesome sound to them. And i do want a geetar with the JM bridge.

Even though, the offset angled bottom edge is weak as fuck.

Weak as fuck, but that is where JMs store the toanes.

Hmmm.


Anyhow, this is what i did yesterday:


New, accurate, templates for the tele, mustang, and also for an LP with a strat/jackson-style neck.

And then i did some secondary shaping on the oddsize tele from the OP and also the oddsize LP-ish one from earlier. Both bodies are too small in one curve or another to allow the normal templates for the guitars to be used, so i had to do some rejiggering.

Probably going to do the tele esquire style. Still don't know what i am going to do for pickup and bridge arrangements with the mini LP.

Also i need to find a way to acquire all kinds of random shit: neck plates, knobs, tuning pegs, jazzmaster pickups and bridges... Garr. At least not having the shit will mean that i won't be temptd to rush the sanding/routing/finishing processes on the bodies, i guess...

Chris, do you have a job?

I have a a bridge for a TOM as well.

A couple of other random things. Good thing I forgot to ship that box out . Monday, btw.

Chris needs a job with a ferocity. Unfortunately my hobo resume is shitlike.

Evidently, merely being the former king of mexico and a generally sinisterlyminded evil quartergenius, is just not enough for most employers in this current economic climate.

Yeah, the world is pretty fucked up in that sense.

I dont understand how a guy like you doesnt have a job doing SOMETHING.

I don't understand it either. Actually, no one i know understands it either. I am either just terminally unlucky, or perhaps i simply do not possess the obvious thirst for blood that i once did. Probably a combination of the two plus: ...

Fixed

Youre just too gnar to work in the average working world. You must start your own thing up nao

If I had the capital, I would invest in you

That is actually serious though.

Too bad startups need monies.

Otherwise, i would totally be selling robot marmots with chaingun arms grafted on them to the US military already.

Aren't you up around the Boston area?

IIRC, that is where Guitarfetish is located ... at least I know they are in MA.

Anyway,, if you are in the area you might want to throw a resume his way. Even if it were something as simple as a shipping/packaging gig, they seem like the kind of place that would value some hobo-science

Aye, it occurred to me, but they don't seem to be looking for people. Also they are about an hour away, probably an hour and a half with the traffic at rush hour to get from here to there, and about 50 minutes out of Boston. I *wish* they had a storefront in the city(or even where they are). That would be stupidly convenient.

Ah, damn.

Well I will just have to move up there and we will start some sort of evil genius consulting firm?

Deal.