Fender Jaguar Vintage Guitar Repair Restoration Part 4

Part 4 of my Fender Jaguar 1965 Vintage Guitar Repair/ Restoration in my Luthier Workshop.
After replacing the damaged Truss Rod and glueing on the new Rosewood Fingerboard and installing the recycled original dots,I have to trimm and prepare the Fingerboard for the upcoming fret job. I will share a couple of Luthier hacks that can be very useful for you.
You can follow the full process in this Video.
If you missed the previous Parts of this repair feel free to check out the Links :
PART 1 ----- • Fender Jaguar Vintage ...
PART 2 ----- • Fender Jaguar Vintage ...
PART 3 ----- • Fender Jaguar Vintage ...
This project become such a time consuming process that I decided to release several Videos of this Repair process. Every two weeks on Friday there will be a new Part coming up at 6 p.m.
Enjoy the upcoming Episodes.
If you are interested in my Luthier Craftsmanship, feel free to subscribe to my channel. This will really help me out making this Videos.
Stay tuned and enjoy the Video.
I love doing stuff like that. If you are interested in more of my Luthier life Projects, please feel free to check out my other extended Workshop Videos on this channel.
Enjoy watching and sharing.
Best Regards Nik
Welcome to my my Luthier Workshop since 1997.
Some people asked about the Background Music:
This is composed, played and recorded by myself
with my Handmade Instruments.
If you like to listen to the Full " Workshop Petrek Guitars" Song feel free to follow the Link:
• Album - Workshop Petre...
Part 4 Fender Jaguar 1965 Vintage Guitar in Sunburst Luthier Workshop repair/ restoration Ep.37
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[@petrekguitars]

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[@EbonyPope]

Gibt es einen bestimmten Grund warum du das Griffbrett diagonal gehobelt hast?

[@EbonyPope]

What kind of planer do you use?

[@petrekguitars]

@@EbonyPope Ich mache das immer nach Gefühl und Gehör. Das Holz weisst mir den Weg 🙂 BG Nik

[@petrekguitars]

@@EbonyPope This is a Record Planer. Best Regards Nik

[@MarkScheffler]

Mit dieser Serie hast du dich selbst übertroffen! Freue mich schon auf den letzten Teil!

[@petrekguitars]

Hey Mark, vielen herzlichen Dank für deine Worte, dass freut mich sehr zu hören..aber der eigentlich Star ist diese wunderbare Jaguar. LG Nik

[@Captain_Yata]

Nik this series is legendary

[@petrekguitars]

🙏✨🕺🏻

[@paulbanks8003]

Hi Nik, the restoration of this beautiful guitar is certainly coming along. This is a masterclass, your meticulous attention to detail every step of the way is a joy to watch! Thank You for sharing and looking forward to the final part of the video. All the best , Paul

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your interest and your kind word Paul. You are welcome. The Final Part is gonna be amazing...a bit different than the previous parts. Stay tuned. Best Regards Nik

[@davidweaver4702]

I was amazed how quickly the walnut clogged up the sandpaper. Love the "hands on" craftsmanship, that you obviously enjoy too. Looking forward to the final episode in 2 weeks Nik. Thanks for sharing. Kindest regards, Dave W 👌 🍻 🎵 🎸 🎶

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much David… yes I really enjoy making this complicated repairs. You are welcome. See you in two weeks at the grand Final ✨🕺🏻👍Cheers Nik

[@DIYDUDE012]

Cannot wait to see this!

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your interest in my Luthier Craftsmanship. Best Regards Nik

[@ARWest-bp4yb]

Wow Nik, I'm just totally awed by the amount of work and care you're putting in on this!👍👍

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your interest in my Luthier Craftsmanship 🙏🕺🏻You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@deanbartone8187]

I like your attention to detail. I haven’t caught up with some of your videos, but I love watching how you do it perfect craftsmanship. I wish you were closer to me. I would let you work on some of my guitars. You’re awesome.

[@petrekguitars]

@@deanbartone8187 Hey Dean thank you so much for your kind words. This is really motivating 🙏🕺🏻You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@kenduke3482]

You sir are a craftsman, first class, a pleasure to watch you transform this beautiful jaguar back to life. This guitar can live again for many many years, because of your dedication and skill.

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for saying thus Ken. I love doing this craft. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@Slugg-O]

I greatly enjoy these videos because they highlight your skill and technique without having unnecessary commentary or background music. This is like watching guitar surgery. The detail and craftsmanship are a pleasure to see. Thank you.

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your positive comment and for watching my Luthier content. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@bogartmc]

Wow, what patience you have! I was thinking if it was me planing and sanding the fretboard edge, I would tell myself "good job, me!" when done...until I realize, there's still the other edge to do!

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your kind comment. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@vastrange]

Thank you Nik for another amazing video! Top notch work! Cant wait for the next one. Great camera work too!

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your kind words and for your patience. The Final Part 5 will come in two weeks on Friday. Stay tuned. Best Regards Nik

[@markjames9487]

The craftsmanship and skill are just amazing. These videos are just so good. Thank you

[@petrekguitars]

@@markjames9487 Thank you so much for your kind Comment. You made my Day🙏🕺🏻✨Best Regards Nik

[@Kevin-the-Just]

Excellent video. The camera angles and close-ups are really great. Can't wait for the final part to see and hear it completed.

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your positive comment Kevin. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@paulwhickerthetallvicar]

Such painstaking and precision work. You not only have great skill, but great patience!

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for saying that Paul. Yes I have to stay very focused and calm for such things 😉 but at the end it’s so satisfying Mate. Best Regards Nik

[@thegeekdude67]

This has been a very satisfying series. Your work is thoughtful and very well done. 🙌👊 🎸 😎

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for watching and your positive feedback. Cheers Nik

[@antoine2333]

Hi Friend, thank you for this excellent video ! Once more, I can't help admiring your outstanding skill. It was a great idea putting back the original clay dots as they are parts of the guitar. Also, on the final sanding, you have adjusted the truss rod to make a negative curve and that is so clever : you are mastering so well, this detail is indeed very important. I hope, the Fender Jaguar sticker will be placed on the headstock so I'm waiting impatiently your next video. See you soon...

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for all your kind words and your positive comment. You are welcome. The last part will be released in two weeks. I will explain a lot of my decisions that I have to make during such a intense repair. All the best for you. Cheers Nik

[@MrLespaul2000]

Another great episode. This has been a fascinating series to watch. Cheers

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your positive comment Mate. Best Regards Nik

[@carlyoung6561]

Very entertaining and educational! Excited about Part 5.

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your positive comment. Part 5 is coming up on Friday. Let me know how do you like it.... Best Regards Nik

[@hibaatiye3118]

Ich nur immer wieder sagen: Nik Du bist Großartig 🍀🙏🏼

[@petrekguitars]

Vielen herzlichen Dank liebe Hiba💫 LG Nik

[@volume8]

always great to see you post... excited for part 5!

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much.You are welcome. Cheers Nik

[@sirdeetoh]

Great work, nothing more satisfaying than wood shavings ;) I still feel tricky to use a plane to make the radius, but definitely is the faster and cleaner way to do.

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your feedback. Yes it’s such a amazing surface that you create with a plane… not comparable with a sended surface. Back in the days there was no sanding paper and the woodworkers just used planes and scrapers to finish up the wood. Best Regards Nik

[@sirdeetoh]

@@petrekguitars I come from a family of carpenters and I grew up among wood shavings, I inherited an old plane all made of wood, but sadly my grandfather couldn't teach me how to use it properly, I'm sure he is somewhere looking at me and laughing at my skills ;-)

[@petrekguitars]

@@sirdeetoh For sure he is looking at you but he surly don't laugh about you...Grandfathers are amazing mine was a great Men and also a Woodworker and I am named after him " Nikola". And I am proud of that what he has teached me .... . Best Regards Nik

[@bronco3668]

Tolle Video, tolle Arbeit Nik 🎉

[@petrekguitars]

Vielen herzlichen Dank. BG Nik

[@jeffrix27]

I imagine not even the factory puts this much work into making a neck.

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks for your comment. For sure 🙂 the Guitars will be unaffordable... Best Regards Nik

[@MuscleCarLover]

These videos really showcase just how hands on this work is. Also, it's only with this video that I've seen how the end of the fretboard follows the curvature of the headstock. I thought it was odd so had a look on Google and fair enough, that's pretty accurate to '65 Jags

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive comment. Best Regards Nik

[@hubertbauch4349]

Thank you again for this entertaining episode! 👍

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks for watching and your interest in my Luthier Craftsmanship 🕺🏻👍Best Regards Nik

[@stealingtomorrowband]

Love the videos my friend... But the 2 week wait sucks balls.... On a serious note I've enjoyed watching your series, I've learned a bunch

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so. much for saying this Mate. You are welcome. Sorry for the 2 week release rhythm but I still have do run my Workshop to make my living...Maybe some day a will get in a comfortable position to post one Video a week... Best Regards and thank for your patience. Cheers NIK

[@stealingtomorrowband]

@@petrekguitars I'm just messing with you friend.. i really wish some of you guys i follow lived closer and it would cost an arm and leg to ship stuff. I've got a bass 8 want to get frets and fret markers put in... All the so called "luthiers" around me i wouldn't trust tuning my instruments up ...

[@petrekguitars]

@@stealingtomorrowband You are welcome Mate. Best Regards Nik

[@benspoliticsandnewsbencook9151]

I have to say. You are a far more patient man than I a. I would have got a new sticker of the fender logo made and stripper the whole neck Dow and re finished it. And I would have re did the body as well. But I like making them look new again.

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your comment and for sharing your opinion Ben. This is also a possibility...I decided to keep it original. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@user-mg6yd6el5u]

Thanks for sharing your passion and work is inspiring thank you😃

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you for watching and for your motivating comment ✨🕺🏻👍Cheers Nik

[@tombellee8810]

Hat mir mal wieder gut gefallen. Vielen Dank!

[@petrekguitars]

Vielen herzlichen Dank Tom. Am 26.07. kommt der letzte Teil dieser Reparatur Serie. BG Nik

[@shannonfamily]

Again I learn something or confirm something. I've watched many Luther videos and always have projects going on but I never heard someone say to count the strokes!!!!! I count them while polishing frets also, if they were really crunchy to start with and I count on the fretboard too. Counting and having a template make that not so hard. My Achilles heel is nuts lol guitars I seem pretty good but my bosses...I have a box of shame that's filled with bass nuts. Another great video

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your positive Feedback. Yes counting the strokes avoids that the surface get uneven🙂 Best Regards Nik

[@joorock63]

Awesome work!!!

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot. Cheers Nik

[@Lucho-ud4ku]

nice work with care and love

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for watching and your positive comment 👍🕺🏻Best Regards Nik

[@MeinFiesesEgo999]

Pressed the like button before seeing the video.

[@petrekguitars]

Thank you so much for your support. Best Regards Nick

[@Slugg-O]

Same here. Instant like!

[@petrekguitars]

@@Slugg-O Thanks for that Mate. Cheers Nik

[@AntonioGomez-ob9og]

Mr Petrek you have an awesome skills is so relaxing to see how you transform this neck to a beauty I love your work for that reason you have a new subscriber that's me and I would like to know how much that kind of work cost if you don't mind have a great day sir

[@petrekguitars]

Hey Antonio, you are welcome thanks for subscribing to my Channel. Actually this Guitar is my own, I will explain the Story behind this amazing Instrument in the upcoming Part 5 in two weeks. Actually a Repair like that is about 2200-2800 it's nearly 30-35 hours of work exclusive the Martial costs. Hope this helps you out. Best Regards Nik

[@alforddavis3427]

Hello. Great work. I am fortunate to have found your channel. I assume the owner wants to keep such a vintage instrument original specs but it seems a shame to me to put all that work into the new fretboard and leave it 7.25 inch radius. For me, the modern 9.5 inch is much more playable.

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your comment Alford, you are welcome. Yes I try to keep is as original as possible. Another thing is that you have to change if you make a 9.5 Radius you cannot keep the old Bridge because the radius is different. So sometimes it’s better not to change a running system 😉👍🕺🏻Best Regards and enjoy my other Videos. Cheers Nik

[@alforddavis3427]

@@petrekguitars Good point! I didn't think of that. Thanks.

[@petrekguitars]

@@alforddavis3427 Thanks for your reply. You are welcome. Best Regards Nik

[@Florian_Aschaffenburg]

Danke 😊

[@petrekguitars]

Vielen Dank fürs schauen. BG Nik

[@trinhanhcuong7464]

nice

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for watching. Cheers Nik

[@ChristianSamsel]

Love the work overall, but I would have replaced the side dots.

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your positive feedback and for sharing your opinion Christian👍Best Regards Nik

[@RobMods]

Nice work, but why such a thick fretboard?

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for your positive comment. I decided to make it a bit thicker than original because I don’t need to shimp the Neck to get the correct String hight and an other advantage is that this Instrument can be referred more times… Best Regards Nik

[@reijerlincoln]

Nice. Whose autograph is that on the back of the headstock?

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot. This is from Lyle Närvannen a amazing Guitar player. I used to play about 7 years with him in a Band. He was playing for the Leningrad Cowboys back in the days. I will explain this in the upcoming Part 5 in two weeks. Best Regards Nik

[@russellfoster2400]

The final sanding you are doing you have put the neck in a slight back bow are you then sanding the board level or just cleaning it up ?

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks for you question. I am sanding it to get a slight negativ bow that will be neutralized by pressing the Frets in because they work like little wedges. Best Regards Nik

[@TheAlexFromGalax]

Hi Nik, mit was für einer Feile gibst Du dem Griffbrett wortwörtlich den "letzten Schliff" in der Vertikalen (also dem Übergang von Ahorn zu Palisander)? Wie immer fantastische Arbeit. Freue mich auf den nächsten Teil. Grüße Alex

[@petrekguitars]

Hey Alex, diese lange Feile die ausschaut wie ein Metallprofil habe ich schon fast 35 Jahre.Konnte man früher bei Rockinger kaufen Ist eigentlich ein Bundabrichtfeile. Aber den letzten schliffe gebe ich ihm mit einer Zierling da kann man den Radius einblenden ohne zu sehr in den Ahorn zu kommen und 400 Schleifpapier. BG Nik

[@TheAlexFromGalax]

@@petrekguitars Danke für die rasche Antwort, gibt’s tatsächlich immer noch bei Rockinger und kommt dann auch in meinen Einkaufswagen bei der nächsten Bestellung.

[@petrekguitars]

@@TheAlexFromGalax Ach komm... das ist ja witzig. Super freut mich und noch viel Freude beim Gitarrenbauen. BG Nik

[@ast3663]

..es geht weiter..und kein alter Perlmutt-Dot kaputt

[@petrekguitars]

... Es hört nie auf:...-) BG Nik

[@dr.buzzvonjellar8862]

About the worst way to fit that fretboard. Geez.

[@Slugg-O]

Can you post yours so we can see the right way?

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion. Best Regards Nik

[@petrekguitars]

@@Slugg-O Thanks for your comment Mate. Cheers Nik

[@Captain_Yata]

Nik this series is legendary

[@petrekguitars]

Thanks for saying this Alice🙏✨🕺🏻Cheers Nik