The last set of saddles I bought from Crazy Parts took sixteen days to cross the pond from Deutschland to Arizona.

Patience.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Lookin good so far !

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Dan...

Fender 1987 MIJ Stratocaster, Texas Special Loaded.
Fender 2007 MIA Jazz Deluxe.

While I would have had the paint look like a closet classic (That is, perfect paint no chips), I like the rest of what your doing, a very fine job overall.

I also like your use of the hardtail, should be a really good playing guitar.

Keep the pictures coming please.

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Marriage is like playing cards...

At first all you want are Hearts and Diamonds.

But in the end, all you really want is a Club and a Spade.

You asked for it...







I'm doing to do my best to stop drooling on it and get the pickguard wired up (minus the cap) this afternoon. Cheers.

I think vintage string-through ferrules were done like this......



HTH

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Well, the bridge assembly and installation has been completed and the capacitor came yesterday so I was able to wire it up...things are looking good. Have a look!

I had to do a little un-relicing of the saddles, they finally arrived and were VERY rusty...I was pretty bummed out when I saw them actually. A little soak in some WD-40 and a scrub with baking soda and I was able to get them looking pretty good...I actually had them soaking in Dr. Pepper overnight as well but not sure if that helped or not.

Looking good !

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Dan...

Fender 1987 MIJ Stratocaster, Texas Special Loaded.
Fender 2007 MIA Jazz Deluxe.

Thanks, I agree that things are looking pretty good but what I'm really interested in is finding out how she sounds!

I don't feel up to the task of nut installation (I just don't have the tools I need) so I'm going to take it in this week hopefully to have that done... then we'll be able to do a test drive.

I also need to re-examine my wiring as it's not working right... the middle position has no tone control and the bridge does. Anyhow, I'm not sure what happened exactly but I should be able to figure it out.

Just caught my mistake in the photo... the 2nd tone control is wired to the wrong post on the 5-way selector....oops. Hmm... wonder if I might try it like this for a while and see if I like it? I suppose I could bridge the two and have the second tone knob control both the middle and bridge pickups Anyhow, relieved it's nothing too major!

Heres a link to a thread i started when i put the Texas Specials in mine (i initially got the cap in wrong )
Theres lots of great advice from bluesky636 in here on pickup configuring, advantages of having it one way or the other etc

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=49412

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Dan...

Fender 1987 MIJ Stratocaster, Texas Special Loaded.
Fender 2007 MIA Jazz Deluxe.

Looks very tasty indeed!

Andy

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Pending Greatness

Hate to be a stickler for details plus I've never seen a pic of a 65 hardtail so I could be wrong, but I do know that the earlier hardtails don't have the synchronized tremolo part of the decal.
But the guitar looks great!!

That's Flippin Sweeet!!!

Beautiful! A hard tail to boot!

If it makes you feel better JamGuy, I have the same problem with one of mine.