Oh no, not another MkII homage?!?
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:49 pm
Hi folks,
A very nice chap down here in Brisbane is building me a Notrite Bad Mongo MkII (i.e. Mosrite Ventures MkII homage). He's already built a beautiful MkII bass for our bass player (it's basically a P-Bass that looks like a MKII) so I've decided to jump in and get him to build me a Les Paul Junior that looks like a MKII.
The problem we have is we don't have any drawings or any accurate dimensions, the first CAD drawing my guy came back with (he's an engineer by day) has a headstock that looks way too big. We don't even know how thick the body should be, we're pretty much working from pictures off the internet.
As I've said, this won't be a copy, we're taking liberties with the bridge, the pickup, there won't be a tone knob and the materials will also be different. It'll be a Junior in MkII clothing. 100% Johnny Ramone meets Johnny Thunders machine.
So I need some help, does anybody out there have drawings they'd be willing to let us have a look at? I'd like the body and neck to be as close to the original design as possible, I'm a stickler for these kinds of things. I will be approaching Tim at Tym's Guitars as well but the poor guy is drowning in pedal builds and running a business so I don't really wanna take advantage of his good nature.
Many thanks in advance... Links to the CAD drawing and my headstock decal design below.
Joe (ex-London, England now just north of Brisbane, QLD)
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1469/2450 ... 13a7_b.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1626/2450 ... d2c5_b.jpg
A very nice chap down here in Brisbane is building me a Notrite Bad Mongo MkII (i.e. Mosrite Ventures MkII homage). He's already built a beautiful MkII bass for our bass player (it's basically a P-Bass that looks like a MKII) so I've decided to jump in and get him to build me a Les Paul Junior that looks like a MKII.
The problem we have is we don't have any drawings or any accurate dimensions, the first CAD drawing my guy came back with (he's an engineer by day) has a headstock that looks way too big. We don't even know how thick the body should be, we're pretty much working from pictures off the internet.
As I've said, this won't be a copy, we're taking liberties with the bridge, the pickup, there won't be a tone knob and the materials will also be different. It'll be a Junior in MkII clothing. 100% Johnny Ramone meets Johnny Thunders machine.
So I need some help, does anybody out there have drawings they'd be willing to let us have a look at? I'd like the body and neck to be as close to the original design as possible, I'm a stickler for these kinds of things. I will be approaching Tim at Tym's Guitars as well but the poor guy is drowning in pedal builds and running a business so I don't really wanna take advantage of his good nature.
Many thanks in advance... Links to the CAD drawing and my headstock decal design below.
Joe (ex-London, England now just north of Brisbane, QLD)
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1469/2450 ... 13a7_b.jpg
https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1626/2450 ... d2c5_b.jpg
