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Question Now where on the guitar does this go ????

1st of all......way to go! Great job on this project.
2nd of all.....do you do cars too? My buddy has a Chevette that needs the Mystic Dream paint job ;)
 
tommydude said:
1st of all......way to go! Great job on this project.
2nd of all.....do you do cars too? My buddy has a Chevette that needs the Mystic Dream paint job ;)
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Thank you very much for your kind words.
Hee hee - I dread to think what it's like to spray MD. Tell ya buddy I'll have a go - free, but he has to pay my transport costs ;)

Only sprayed one car - a Beetle in Black Celly.

Had a summer job in a factory once spraying castings in an aluminium oxide.
The foreman got a new company car and parked it outside the giant fan extractor - needless to say his new car had more of an aluminium tinge to it at the end of the day ha! :)
 
Just got back from rehearsal and the JP6 was bugging me (I didn't use it at rehearsal) it was just there on the guitar stand "laughing at me" 'cos the piezo wasn't working.
So I took the strings off, took the 3 trem springs off - took the trem block out and there it was - a wire had come off the pcb screwed onto the trem block.
Time for bye byes now - but tomorrow night I'll resolder the wire and I do hope that fixes it!! I'm confident that's the problem - as long as "Murphy's Law" doesn't kick in!!
 
get you polish box out now :D time for some elbow grease again :p

Congrats Kevin that truly an excellent job, I'm impressed can I send you my guitars for maintenance ? :p
 
Fantastic work Spud, i cant wait to see the guitar finished and back to good kit.


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ah, now i actually took the time to read the whole thread.

That is an awesome piece of work. I do not know if i would have the patience required to remove all that paint and such without damaging the original finish.

Good job, and enjoy the JP6.
 
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Congrats K-spud. I hope you love the finished project. ps. your patience is world class. you would of been a great rocket surgeon.
 
fsmith said:
If I hadn't seen the picture trail and you told me that was the guitar that I picked up for you I wouldn't believe you. Quite a steal for $600. Ya did good bud. Congrats.

I can't wait to see it all put back together.
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Well Fred I said it before and I'll say it again.
You offered to go around to see it for me and you stuck to your remit which as I remember was along the following lines:-
" I don't care if it has issues - dings, fret ware etc. The price is cheap enough for me to consider a refret and even a refin".
You were good enough to get it for me when you had issues at home and do you remember the hassles my son had in getting the money to you via Paypal!! Damn Paypal!!"

I also remember the comment your daughter made when you had it in your gaff - she liked it didn't she? Really the respray wasn't all that bad but you could see the MD peeping through just wanting to show itself in all it's glory.
You managed to get the original pickup because the previous owner had installed an EVH pickup, and you wired it in for me. - and knocked him down $50.

Beej has been great in his help too - I struggle with electronics (yet I can rewire a house with 240V electrics!!). He calmly answers my dorky questions!!

GW Davies arranged the postage via a deal we did - all on trust.

I have really appreciated the support from knuckleheads as I was doing it - believe me when I say that you kept me going.

As I was rubbing the paint off, I had worries as I "hit" areas of primer, but it all came good in the end.



There's been a few hassles/issues on the forum lately but without the help from fellow knuckleheads I would not have a JP6 FULLY LOADED!!

I'm a JP MD owner - and proud of it.

Cheers guys :cool:
 
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