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I got my "stang" about a year ago, so I decided to do a little modding to it. I essentially made it look like an old fender jazz bass...but shortscale (I love shortscale).
I was going to get a white pickguard but my parents didn't like the idea of sending it somewhere, so my mom bought a genuine fender mustang bass white pearl pickguard, but it didn't fit...go figure, just my luck
Anyway, I put a tugbar and those metal covers on and it looks sweet. Props to my awsome stepdad Billy for doing the drilling and making the measurements dead on balls accurate. It is perfect. He dosn't know anything about guitars, but he is picking up knowledge of Ricks from me, so he gets pretty involved. Its so nice. I just shoved a peice of foam in the bottom and it works perfectly as a mute.

Heres another pic from my brother.

I take it this is a new one? I have a '95 Mustang in VW, so far all I have done is clean it up, mount an A style Hipshot bridge to it, and put on TI Jazz Flats. I plan on putting Hipshot Ultralite tuners, soon.

No this is the same old mustang, just improved!

What year is yours, I don't recall?

jps wrote:What year is yours, I don't recall?

Its an October 2007, I got it in 2010 though new from guitar center. It was there for 3 years, thats crazy!

More pics per request:

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Final photo:

Nice!

But ya know, you're way past 30 posts now, so there's no need to bump your post count. Or perhaps you didn't know you can attach up to 4 pictures per post?

cjj wrote:Nice!

But ya know, you're way past 30 posts now, so there's no need to bump your post count. Or perhaps you didn't know you can attach up to 4 pictures per post?

Are you kidding , that would have made life so much easier. Thanks for the help.
I feel pretty stupid right about now...

Yeah, I figured as much...

Very, VERY nice!! I love the Mustang basses.

Nice! Ivan, how does you Mustang compare to a MIM Standard Jazz? I have a MIM Jazz and sometimes it's just too big and too bulky.

JakeK wrote:Nice! Ivan, how does you Mustang compare to a MIM Standard Jazz? I have a MIM Jazz and sometimes it's just too big and too bulky.

Lucky for you I have played a MIM stanndard Jazz. The neck, in my opinion, is just as bulky proportionally. Its just a shortscale. Its nowhere close to the hofner, and the width at the nut is a drastic difference than the width at the 12th fret. Also, the intonation on it is very finniky. Its no a slim neck by all means. Hope that helps!