Bringing an ORIGINAL 1964 Fender Mustang back to life

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Examining the shin of the neck...

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another pic before I got the rest of the parts in

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After the final buffing:

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Now it was time to put this baby back together. The first thing I did was drill a small hole under the area where the tremolo plate goes to run the guitar ground. next I shined up the brass shielding plates with regular old brasso. I then buffed them up with #0000 steel wool, and nailed them back in the guitar.




here, notice I ran the guitar ground, and filled the hole back with wood putty to keep the wire from pulling out. I also soldered the brass pieces together, like it was originally.

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now it was time to install the electronics. for the volume and tone, I used fender's CTS 250K linear pots, and an orange drop cap.

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now I installed the knobs, and checked out the bridge.

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here's where I installed the tuners. I had to add a little super glue in the hole of the low E to keep the ferrule from falling out from where someone drilled out the hole a little.

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now I attached the neck and the strap buttons

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the last thing was the tremolo unit, and it took FOREVER to come in, but it finally did:

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FINALLY I WAS DONE!!!! I loved this guitar, but it had to go back home to it's owner....

ps, the dog's name is sweet pea, she's a good apprentice...