'72 Fender Mustang Bass

A big old chisel route for some new pickups. I stripped it back and filled the J bass hole. I ended up just enlarging the cavity under the guard and making it square, i figure a future owner might favour different pickups so this avoids the need for any future routing.

I was just going to spray it black but i had purchased some Ice Metallic Blue aerosol from an auto shop as a test for an old Jag. The colour was good but spraying with aerosols just sucks. You have no control and the metallic kind of went on in blobs.

I had just made my winder so i wanted to make a set of mustang pickups from scratch. I made some bobbins from some flatwork fibreboard and used some long J Bass magnets, they're only couple mm shorter than a usual Mustang magnets. I lacquered potted the pickups and they came out pretty good! Hopefully they sound alright.

A mustang guard that was going to fit was way too expensive so i made a template from the old one, i had some UV aged plastic that i had left out in the sun that'll match the rest of the guitar really well.