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1965 Big Neck Melody Makers

Dave P

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A friend had this MM husk in the back room of his music store and sold it to me cheap. Needed a lot of work to get to this point, almost ready for paint.
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guitplayer

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That looks nice. Any color in mind?
Ill say these are sweet guitars for what they are.
Pickup and tuner / tailpiece upgrade and your there.
Plenty of guitars out there with previous mods done to them.
I would`nt leave home without my 1965.
 
Dave P

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Was red originally, still has red in the cavities. So either red or pelham blue. I bought a repro lightning bolt tail with the correctly intonated g string section for a plain g. Have some new 3 on a strip Gotoh tuners. I have allthe original parts, but I would rather have it intonate correctly and have tuners with no slop. I already refretted it with jumbo Jescar 57110 wire.
 
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I`ve no luck with the proper G string compensated tailpiece. The leo quann is best for me.
Did not care for the tone with the pigtail version either. If they made a heavy version maybe.
Tuners are pretty straight forward. Kluson strip tuners.
Or a set of grovers if they`ve been altered. Great Rock and Roll guitars.
Would like to see pics after paint.:peace2
 
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guitplayer said:
I`ve no luck with the proper G string compensated tailpiece. The leo quann is best for me.
Did not care for the tone with the pigtail version either. If they made a heavy version maybe.
Tuners are pretty straight forward. Kluson strip tuners.
Or a set of grover if they`ve been altered. Great Rock and Roll guitars.
Would like to see pics after paint.:peace2
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I want to pore fill it and maybe shoot sealer this winter, will have to wait until spring to shoot nitro.
 
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roxrob said:
I've got a '62 with a Curtis Novak mm90dog which is a P90 dogear which fits without any body mods. Sounds and looks awesome.

Rob
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Thanks for the info mate. Any chance you can post up a photo of the fit please? Would like to see how it looks. I'm moving away from the Pat Travers mod. Cheers
 
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