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First Build - The Dukester

I'm not real proud of the final "fit and finish", and the shape could use a whole lot of refining but it worked out well. Thanks.

It's already had a surgery. I was dying to find out what my Jazz would sound like with a Model One in it and I robbed it out of this one. In it's place went the neck Jazz pickup, slanted to get the poles to line up. Ugly but effective. I had decided that it was a little too dark and thumpy with the Model One, the single coil brought it to life. Fortunately since I never "finished" the finish I wasn't worried about hacking it up!