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Meazzi Hollywood (referenced) project

#461
JIO said:
The vintage Meazzi bridge cover/string-stop arrived from Italy yesterday. To my delight it covers my string-stop completely! And because mine is counter-sunk into a body rout - there's plenty of space/clearance of the two so I won't have to remove the upper chucks, leaving it as-is. As it is over 50 yrs old and very rare - I'm glad to not alter it. I will do some serious polishing as the surface is pretty rough. It's going to be the cherry on top of the Juniper! Thanks again to David @Dynacord for discovering it and making me aware of its availability. :thumbsup:

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You can see my string-stop from these 45 degree angles but...
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from straight over - it completely covers it...
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as is clearly illustrated in this pic. Sometimes you get lucky!
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Aligned to show the mis-matched string spacing. The Meazzi has narrower spacing.
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Awesome news!!!

Looks like as close to a perfect fit as could be hoped for.
 
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I'll probably go further, but it's much nicer so far. It is a very crude casting with no real finishing work done before it ended up on a bass. A different time.

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Most excellent! Everything complete now? Do you have the bridge cover? And thanks - I sanded through a lot of the superficial ones on the surface but the casting 'scratches' are fairly deep. Beth has a jewelry tumbler so I'll send it through that for more cosmetic buffing/shining.
 
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JIO said:
Most excellent! Everything complete now? Do you have the bridge cover? And thanks - I sanded through a lot of the superficial ones on the surface but the casting 'scratches' are fairly deep. Beth has a jewelry tumbler so I'll send it through that for more cosmetic buffing/shining.
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Thanks. Yes, I have the bridge cover. It's pressed/stamped and chromed though - not cast - on this version. There are also similar covers for the tuning machine gears. I have everything except one of the three bridge cover screws.

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Stugilliam said:
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I saw that, I like what you're doing! I love the look of the old basses but wouldn't want to play one! I am sure that your creations play beautifully!
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Refretted mine and it plays great. Sounds really good to me. Totally gig worthy and I've gigged it a lot. Even did a tour into Ukraine with it. You can hear it on this video we did when first isolating...

 
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Dynacord said:
Refretted mine and it plays great. Sounds really good to me. Totally gig worthy and I've gigged it a lot. Even did a tour into Ukraine with it. You can hear it on this video we did when first isolating...

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I know I've asked before, but who makes that resin-body Tele, and is it heavy? It looks cool. And in the first shot - turning 'up' the slider does what exactly? (volume?)
 
#476
JIO said:
Here's the more standard bridge/bridge cover version. No info as to what year each was done - early '60s is all I know.
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My understanding (which may be wrong) is the Jupiter ran from 1964 through 1966 (I think there are at least some of the guitar version dated '63). The early ones had the Fenderish bridge and the pickups with adjustable polepieces and the later ones had the separate bridge and tailpiece and simplified (non adjustable) pickups - how both of the pictured examples are.

There was still a lot of randomness. The position on the neck pickups moved all over the place. I've seen ones in both versions with and without the white center stripe, etc so I'm sure there are some deviating from the bridge and pickup combinations being as I mentioned but that seems like the general trend.

Some of the other later 60's models like the Kadette and the hollowbodies used the same bridge/tailpiece and had the simpler pickups (there were a couple more high end/deluxe guitar models - the Explorer and the Corsair - which kept the adjustable polepiece pickups).
 
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JIO said:
I know I've asked before, but who makes that resin-body Tele, and is it heavy? It looks cool. And in the first shot - turning 'up' the slider does what exactly? (volume?)
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Marco - the guitar player/singer in the video - made it himself. He's an excellent luthier (he also plays pedal steel with one of the most iconic singers in Italy). His website:https://www.allpartswood.com/
I don't recall it being unusually heavy.

On the slider - the one on the bass side closest to the neck is a master volume. The one by the bridge is pan/pickup blend. The two knobs are separate tone for each pickup.
 
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