Tarquinius

I was kinda hoping that I wouldnt have to paint it, that I could buy one first if they are available. I havent thought about the ind of paint yet. And besides, I have never painted a body in my life.

I'm looking to start building another custom and I got an idea of what I want but I have very weird taste. I'm looking for a strat body in an emerald green finish. Imagine a translucent dark green finish with some sparkle in it. Sounds like, either rare or non existent to me. But I would like to ask the pros before I start looking into painting it myself. SIDE NOTE: If I am right by saying it does not exist can you give me some tips on how I would go on to paint this?

where can i find this neck? btw i can't take any measurements from the neck it came with because its not an appropriate fit, so all the dimensions are wrong. I could be wrong though, if i can somehow get some measurements from this neck (des[ite the fact that its not a fit), please tell me. Thank you.

Another question before this thread dies, how can you determine the apporpriate neck size for a body?

interesting, I'll consider it. I was thinking although, something more along the lines of a busted vintage guitar that just needs repair (preferably name brand, but i know 150 won't take you far)

First of, I would like to thank everybody for reading my "epic tale" and giving me GREAT suggestions, I seriously do have a lot to think about. I dont know wheter I would like to reroute some stuff to accomodate my neck, because I LOVE my bridge for some odd reason, it just looks so weird and rare, I've never seen anything like it. second this guitar yardsale im always going on about is in Maryland at Make n' music. Might be worth the trip if only your in the tristate area, but otherwise lol dont even bother. Thank you again, you guys rock.

I would like to get my hands on another project guitar, but I don't know where to get one. The most obvious choice is ebay, but as we all know its almost hard to be secure in a transaction at ebay, knowing those damn snipers with 5 seconds left to go eh ? Where I live there is a biannual rock n roll yardsale with vintage parts, guitars etc, but....thats biannual. Another problem I should bring up, I'm a teen with no job, so I only have about 150 bucks to spend. Sooo, sites, suggestions.........free money even? (jk jk) Thank you

not possible. The bridge is very unique, its like a bigsby/ tailpiece end. The body basically has a huge hole to accomdate the unusal tremleo piece.

Sooo...what you guys are saying is that with some adjustments I can reroute the tone controls for my preference? So does this mean If i wanted to...make one tone pot in control of the neck pick up and one for the bridge? If so, do you think this is a smart idea?

Thank you all so much. I am actually thinking of continuing but the fact is I'm a teen without a job and no constant cash flow. So dropping 300 bucks on a new neck would be pretty powerful. I learned now that it wasn't the body that was the problem but the neck. The neck was not right to scale with the body. So there IS a chance that I can get it to work If I can get a new neck for the body. Anybody know how I can find a neck for a body? Like measuring from the bridge to the pocket or sommmetthing?

A while ago I joined and started posting questions, usually focused in electronics, about a mustang/jag stang hybrid guitar. Tons of people were very courteous to me, and now here is my "saga". I ended up buying it at a guitar yardsale thingy, and I thought it would be fun and an easy fix. I was wrong haha. I learned that this guitar was made overseas and did NOT follow any Fender/Gibson standards. So I spent a couple of saturdays searching Home Depot and hobby stores searching for screws that would fit, which I finially did fine, that were probably one of a kind. After that, I made a HUGE purchase from allparts probably amounting to 200 bucks. Included was a pickguard, sliding switches, knobs, wires, pots, etc etc. When I finially got it......not one single item fit. The pickguard was way too small, the pots were too. The one lucky thing was the tuners in which, they ended up being for a tweleve string guitar, but because the width of the headstock was sooo huge it fit perfectly. So then I began on constructing a pickguard from scratch. Now you have to realize that I am a begginer at guitar building, and I would have to say that I'm probably getting in over my head here. I did fairly well with cutting it out, but when cutting the holes inside it, I made the pickup hole too big. I got frustrated and I abandoned the project for a month. Later on, I went back to the samel biannual guitar yardsale and looked at the necks. There, I found out that the neck that came with it was a very very rare size, and I would need to get a new neck in order to get the intonation right. Which meant that the only thing that actually went "right" (the tuners) would have to change. Not too mention I would have to drop another 300 bucks on a neck. So eventually I just gave up. Looking back on it now, I think its kinda funny how it all worked out. Unfortunatly I got a whole bunch of parts now that I cant return. Anyway, I would like to thank everybody who helped me through this endevour. Although this project failed (pretty bad), I learned from the best (you guys) and from mistake (myself).

My favorite guitar is starting to develop some sort of dirt nastyness in the frets. I can scrap it off with my pick, but not very well or recommended. Is there any product I can use on this? I also heard that lemon or any citric juice on it will do the trick? Comments? Thank you.

I'm sorry to be asking this, because this is so stupid. I have never played or owned a single coil pickup guitar ever. All i know is the dual humbuckers. To cut to the chase, I know some dual humbucking guitars have 2 and 2 knobs (2 volume knobs and 2 tone knobs) which allow for different settings on the bridge and neck pick up (yes I know you know this, I'm getting to my point). On a strat, it has 3 knobs, one volume and two tone. My question is, do the two tone knobs allow you to have two different tones on the bridge and the neck, like some dual humbucker guitars do? If not, what does the second tone knob do? My dilemma is that I prefer single coil sound over humbuckers, but I like having indepent control with all the knobs and all. So, if somebody would be kind to help me out, it could definitly help me. Thank you.

To answer some of your questions: Brand of guitar: A&C customized (no big name) Model- Takes after a mustang/jag stang (two single coils with two sliding switches above and the control plate below) Sorry no pics with me Bridge- I kept the old bridge that it orginally came with. I really like, its like nothing I have seen before (which could be, because it never caught on heh) Neck- I have not really taken an actualy straight edge and looked at it. But I have raised it and looked at it. It looks fairly straight meaning, it looks pretty perfect as is. String Height- When I say how far the strings are from the neck I'm reffering to the frets. Miscellaneous Info: It would be easy to imagine this guitar just like a PRS or a SG with the stop tail piece and the bridge slightly above it. Except really not that fancy haha. So I have had to raise the bridge up because of the fret buzz. Im gonna really try to post some pics on here, because its hard to explain it with words. Also I'm really sorry I couldn't be more help, the guitar in question is at my dads house, but I will see it tommorow actually. More Input please? Thank you. EDIT: BTW I would like to add in response to Curtis'es reply that my guitar is not electronically operationally. Meaning that Basically I have the body, neck, tuners, bridge, all the hardware but I have not installed any of the pick ups, selectors, pots etc. So basically imagine your guitar, but without the...guts.

Ok, I bought this old guitar to work on. Im almost done, and I finially got the bridge and the tuners working. So i installed some test strings on there to test the action. Well just as fate would have it, I get alot of buzzing around the top frets. So I raise the bridge, test it, still more buzz, raise it, test, buzz. I basically had to raise it to the top to get rid of it. And as you know, when it is that high, its almost impossible to play well. I've looked around the neck, up at the top, where you would find a truss rod cover, or a bullet thing on a strat, none whatsoever. Checked the body cavity, didnt find any there either. Does this mean the truss rod opening is on the boot/heel of the neck? Therefore I would have to remove the neck and do it that way? Or is it even possible that there is no truss rod opening, and it is as is? I do have the opportunity to get a neck REAL cheap on an upcoming guitar sale at one of the stores near me, so I need to act fast or not at all. Thank You.