It's been a year in the making, but I finally (almost) finished. I got the jazzmaster kit from solo guitars last summer, and after a lot of procrastinating, I finally got around to finishing it. It was my first time doing any kind of wiring, wood finishing, and I've only ever changed a neck before this.
Overall, I'm really happy with how it turned out. I couldn't stand the colour of the pickguard it came with, so I made my own out of 1/8" mahogany plywood from the lumber yard. I also bought all new wiring and pickups for it.
I first had it together with a fender pickguard and the original p90s and wiring, but the pickguard did not fit it well, and the pickups didn't really do it for me. Also, the wiring definitely needed a treble bleed or something because the tone and volume knobs did some odd things when they were turned down a bit.
I put in tone emporiun PAFs instead and I'm quite impressed by the clarity of them. The only problem I need to fix still, is that I wired something wrong with the tone knob. It was bound to happen being my first time. I'll take it apart soon again and find the error. So for now, tone knob is basically bypassed I believe, and it sounds great anyways.
There's a ton of details I could get into about my finishing process and the mistakes I made, but for now, here it is!
Overall, I'm really happy with how it turned out. I couldn't stand the colour of the pickguard it came with, so I made my own out of 1/8" mahogany plywood from the lumber yard. I also bought all new wiring and pickups for it.
I first had it together with a fender pickguard and the original p90s and wiring, but the pickguard did not fit it well, and the pickups didn't really do it for me. Also, the wiring definitely needed a treble bleed or something because the tone and volume knobs did some odd things when they were turned down a bit.
I put in tone emporiun PAFs instead and I'm quite impressed by the clarity of them. The only problem I need to fix still, is that I wired something wrong with the tone knob. It was bound to happen being my first time. I'll take it apart soon again and find the error. So for now, tone knob is basically bypassed I believe, and it sounds great anyways.
There's a ton of details I could get into about my finishing process and the mistakes I made, but for now, here it is!