The bridge is a recent Bronco Bass bridge, as is the pickup - with rest of the parts (neckplate, knobs, strap-buttons) being standard reissue hardware. Those are Strat knobs on the controls in this picture - I replaced them with the proper Jazz Bass style knobs. I made the pickguard using an old hacked up Musicmaster Bass pickguard as a pattern, though I later realized I could have bought one from WD Music Products pretty cheaply. The neck was a straight-forward refret, using Fender's current "medium" guitar fretwire as opposed to the "jumbo" fretwire used on Fender's full-size basses from 1966 on. If anybody has some details on this, please let me know or post a comment ! I'm not sure what was used to finish 1965 through 1970 Mustangs and Musicmasters - but my 1966 Mustang Bass does not appear to have a topcoat on it and the color is a bit different from Dakota Red. These colors also did not have clear coats applied over them, so they do age slightly differently than typical Fender finishes - with more darkening and less yellowing. I believe that at least from 1970 on, these were fairly thin polyurethane finishes as opposed to acrylic and nitro lacquer finishes - so it may be that the red and blue were "offset" colors formulated in a different base. This family of instruments had their own formulations of blue and red - with the blue being a slightly darker and greyer variation on Daphne Blue and the red being a slightly darker version of Dakota Red. I decided NOT to do a clear coat over the color coat, in keeping with the style of original Musicmaster Bass finishes - though I will point out that Daphne Blue is not a "correct" color for Musicmaster (or Mustang) basses or guitars. I eventually tracked down a 1971 Musicmaster neck that had been defretted and a set of the fairly unique early Musicmaster Bass tuners.Īs is often the case - the large body plugs I had glued in when I repaired the body were showing their seam marks, so I ended up sanding the front and back faces of the body flat again and spraying a few more coats of Daphne Blue. The initial stages of rebuilding and refinishing the body are covered in this post.
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The body was a cheap ebay purchase - I think I paid $15 for it plus shipping. I started off with an early 70s poplar Fender Musicmaster Bass body that had been mercilessly routed for different pickups and then apparently broken in half and badly reglued together. (Also includes original tuners and string guides)Ĭolors: Black (506), Surf Green (567), Shell Pink (556)īridge: Six-Saddle small bridge with through-body stringing.Here's a long overdue follow-up on a post from a few years ago.
Killer playing killer sounding guitar that you wont see everyday. And the replacement was the last one Fender had in stock. Also had to replace the original pickguard which is included. A very cool piece of rare Fender and Squier history that's skyrocketing in value with some extras. fix the original neck and have a Jaguar neck for free! (They cost $300!!) Anyway. (24" Scale) Too late I realized the musicmaster is a 24.75" scale- so improvising I installed longer intonation adjustment screws to the bridge and presto! It intonates and plays great! Very cool guitar and the original neck should be an easy fix- the very cheapest Vista Musicmaster I can find is $850. So I went and bought a Fender Mexico Jaguar neck.
No way to extract it with the tools I have. Not the truss rod itself) completely reamed out round. I recieved it with the truss rod nut (NUT. A Chinese Squier that sells for over a thousand dollars.
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