OEM Material: color 117 antique pearl lam: $65.00 OEM Material: color 43 Mint Green 3-ply: $40.00ġ0 screws, split pu, cut for control plate, thumb rest by low E string OEM Material: color 43 mint/black 3-ply: $40.00ġ2 screws, single coil neck pu, tight-rout Made in Mexico, 12 screws, 2 single coils, 2 knobs, jack & switch OEM Material: color 64 1-ply white: $40.00 Made in Mexico, 12 screws, 2 slanted single coil pickups, 2 knobs, switch,& jack OEM Material: color 120 single-ply parchment: $40.00ġ2 screws, 2 pu, 2 knobs & jack, notch for truss rod There are several small variations on these guards, to insure a perfect fit, please send in a tracing or your original guard. OEM Material: color 100 white pearl lam: $60.00Ĩ screws, single coil pu, 2 knobs & jack,Ģ holes for tugbar by G string slightly differentĭims & screw locations from PG 28702 above Mustang-style guard, 12 screws, 1 pu, notch for truss rod, cut for control plate NOTE: SOME OF THE DUO SONIC PICKGUARDS WILL FIT 1960s MUSICMASTERS PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION. The more recent Squier Musicmaster and Bronco necks are also of the later chunky shape unfortunately.OEM Material: gold anodized aluminum we do not have this color available - please choose another material from our COLORS page I do greatly prefer the slimmer 1976 and earlier Musicmaster Bass necks to the much chunkier 1977 to 1982 necks. The bass has round-wound strings on it, but those may also be switched to flatwounds - as I find that combination to sound particularly good on Musicmaster basses! I may swap out the pickup for a reissue vintage Strat or Mustang pickup eventually, as these are much closer to the Mustang/Musicmaster guitar pickups that were used in original Musicmaster basses (yes - there are 6 polepieces under the plastic cover for ALL those Musicmaster basses!). The pickup is a bit different from the original pickup in that it has a bar magnet across the bottom of the pole-pieces (as is typical of many Fender Squier pickups) as opposed to just having magnetic polepieces. 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. 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. Here's a long overdue follow-up on a post from a few years ago.
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