Kurt Cobain #1 1975 Mustang custom shop finished -Sold
1975 Fender Mustang
Thomas Baptist Church “Where are the Dead” record- CNC cut
Custom Control plate CNC cut
Univox 70’s humbucker
Unvox 70’s toggle switch
Unvivox 70’s Volume and Tone Controls
Soundgarder sticker traced design in illustrator, stickermule produced
Custom Cobain Neck Plate by Lazrart https://www.lazrart.com/
Custom made humbucker ring to original location of Kurts pickup

Finished this beauty. Had a lot of fun with this one, got to use vintage original parts. Quite challenging programming the location of his pickup and then cutting on CNC machine. Really proud of this work. After wiring her up, the tone was a bit thin and high pitched. Apparently the luthier that did the great fretjob forgot to raise the bridge up to compensate for the shim installed. After raising the bridge the tone came back to life.

It has that univox sound but the location, which is super close bridge adds a ton of presence, chords really chime but it as still retains that low end of the Univox pickups resonant peak. It’s definitely an original sound. I think Cobain said he loved treble and presence and this guitar definitely has that. Maybe too much? He didn’t use this guitar on bleach recording, even though it is on the cover of album. His custom made Mustangs, all had pickup locations in the normal spot, but he had someone make those custom bodies.

https://www.livenirvana.com/interviews/9002ga/index.php

From Grant Alden interview

“And he plays SoundTech cabinets. One time, Kurt and I were walking around the Evergreen State College campus, looking for something and we heard this band jamming, so we went to these dorm bungalows and there’s this guy playing. “Oh, you guys are Nirvana?” And we’re like, “Yeah, we are.” Anyway, this guy had all these Kramer guitars around and there was this left-handed Fender Mustang from the late ’60s – cuz Kurt’s left-handed, you know – and it was sanded-down, so you couldn’t see, it didn’t say “Fender” or anything on it, but it was a Mustang. “Hey, guys! Neat guitar!” “Oh, that thing? Pah!” This guy’s into Kramers and Charvels, he had all of these top-of-the-line Charvels. We’re like, “Well, hey, you wanna sell it?” He says, “I dunno, $50?” We talked him from 50, we talked him down to $20! Then we ran to the bank machine and we ran back and everybody was gone, but the window was open. I thought, “Let’s just rip it off,” but, no, we knocked on his door. We bought it for $20 and we had a couple of frets- we had a fret job done to it and… God, it was just a beautiful guitar and what did Kurt do? He just smashed it! Like all his guitars…” -Krist Novoselic