got a rare chance to crank up my jag today. the properly appointed and set up jag is a pretty amazing instrument--between the shape, scale length, and bridge/tremolo design it's easily the most comfortable fender to play at least for me.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 April 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
As I mentioned on the strat/tele thread, I picked up a set of CuNiFe WRHBs with the long-term plan of using them in some-sort of partsmaster. Not a Ranaldo-style minimal circuitry Jazzblaster, but something more like a what-if '72 Jazzmaster Deluxe. Chunky neck, maaaabyeee stacked volume/tone pots for each pickup, but after MONTHS of quarantine time burned on differing configurations, trawling for parts on Reverb, and getting worked up over esoteric differences on warmoth vs. allparts, I impulsively bought an early-00s CIJ JM-66 Jazzmaster that just showed up on Craigslist a couple days ago.
https://qc-ckb.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ilx/jm-cij66.jpg
7.25" rosewood chunky neck, most of hardware is pretty good. If I was to source it all separately I'd end up spending a lot more. The previous owner swapped out the 1M tone pot and put in a pair of AVRI pickups several years back. I don't like the boring sunburst/tortoise shell look, but it's aged into a cool guitar. First step is to rout-out space for the WRHBs and swap the pick guard. I'm still considering a Lake Placid Blue refinish, but one step at a time...
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 28 April 2021 10:49 (three years ago) link
Great get, you won’t regret it. For a what-if 70s machine, can’t go wrong with a black pickguard, with the WRHBs it won’t be boring. Headstock’s not 70s but you can draw inspiration from the last original run 82 Jazzmaster like I did.
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 12:09 (three years ago) link
http://33.media.tumblr.com/597f165a53b7d8e2988c51402faf42d9/tumblr_ml67h7XXAG1qdtuwuo10_1280.jpg
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 12:25 (three years ago) link
that's pretty
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
I like Spitfire Tortoiseshell pickguards for sunburst but they’re $$$.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 23:24 (three years ago) link
The tort that Fender uses looks like crap but Spitfire has a lot of depth and variation.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 28 April 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CO2_qosBmHm/?igshid=1jmhao90zif5f
I wonder how much it weighs. I’m guessing 15 pounds give or take.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 14 May 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link
I can't deal with it. Totally sets off my OCD over fingerprint smudges.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 05:28 (two years ago) link
Took a chance on a Japanese Mustang 69. The neck is extremely comfortable, the most comfortable neck I've ever played in fact. The tremolo setup is definitely tricky though. It stays in tune if I bend up all the time and it stays in tune if I bend down all the time, but not if I mix the two. Luckily I prefer bending up anyway. It's definitely a great guitar for surf-style playing, techniques like palm muting and tremolo picking are quite comfortable to execute.
― mirostones, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
You know, if you were wanting to form some sort of evil prog-gaze band and didn't want to hold back - this Fender custom shop double neck Jazzmaster/Bass VI might just be the basis of your entire sound.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/5k4AAOSwxt1fd0AN/s-l1600.jpg
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
Accidentally double clicked that link and clicked Buy It Now, will let you know how I get on with it
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Sunday, 6 June 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
someone get Takeshi from Boris on the line ASAP
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
For all those songs where you want the bass part to stop while someone is playing a guitar solo
― stations of the croissanwich (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 6 June 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
seems I should look into the Jazzmaster...
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, February 13, 2021
update: holy shit, I may be a "jazzmaster guy." what took me so long?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 22 June 2021 03:36 (two years ago) link
So that CIJ JM-66 I was talking about upthread four months ago? It looks like this now:
https://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/jm66dlx-a.jpghttps://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/jm66dlx-b.jpg
Everything came together spectacularly well. The Fender CuNiFe's were definitely worth the effort to track down even with the extra hassle in re-routing the body and a custom pickguard. I went through hours of YouTube videos of JM HB replacement pickups and none of them, even the outstanding ones, had the chunky/splat sound I've been obsessing over ever since Jason Pierce switched to '72 Telecaster Thinlines soon into Spiritualized.
Totaling all the costs, I spent slightly more than a current Fender JM Ultra. Like the Grease Rat in Mad Max said "Speed's just a question of money. How fast you wanna go?" When I was first figuring out what I wanted (other than the CuNiFe WRHBs) I was wanting a custom color, B&B neck, but after paging through other folks' Jazzblaster projects I kept noticing just how many screws were visible on the front: 25 when you add in the 8 from the pickups. All of these all-black or all-white pickguards look like it took a shotgun blast. A tortoise shell is great at disguising those and of course that led to $pitfire. I fucking love the result. I have a new #1.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 September 2021 06:27 (two years ago) link
Putting together a guitar out of internet-sourced parts and 15 minute YouTube videos has been an awesome depression-fighter. Recommend it to everyone.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 September 2021 07:03 (two years ago) link
Looks lovely and I agree about tortoiseshell pickguards.
Saddles look a little strange in these photos though, is there something unusual about them?
― Richard Marxist (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 12 September 2021 08:10 (two years ago) link
It's just the standard Mastery bridge for CIJs. I'm still tweaking things - the neck was initially shimmed a bit more than I was used to but I'm liking it. Should be great for .011s.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 12 September 2021 08:55 (two years ago) link
oooooooooweeeeeee
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 12 September 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
love this ET - thank you for the update and the hott pix!I think I have a bad contact… neck pup cuts out when I engage the rhythm circuit but can be restored by tapping on the pickguard. for context, I am reluctant to take it off to diagnose bc I really like the strings I have on there now, so your DIY project gives me courage lol.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 12 September 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link
Putting together a guitar out of internet-sourced parts and 15 minute YouTube videos has been an awesome depression-fighter
I've done this a few times and concur.
― joygoat, Sunday, 12 September 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
it's gorgeous! i absolute love it.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 12 September 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
rogermexico - tune down to slack and capo the strings at the 3rd fret or so. Then you can take the neck off and work under the pickguard etc.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 12 September 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
Lovely guitar.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.gearnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Fender-Traditional-60s-Jazzmaster-with-Wide-Range-CuNiFe-Humbuckers-1-2048x702.jpg
Coming soon to a grey marketer/eBay exporter near you:Fender Made in Japan Traditional 60s Jazzmaster with Wide Range CuNiFe humbuckers
I feel like Fender Japan is looking at what people are building on the internet and just duplicating them. Naturally I'm just going to assume that they saw my build and knew how to get me uptight about it by adding a block neck but I'm happier with the 7.25" in my build.
OTOH, goddamn - what a great way to get into the Jazzblaster game! I'm going to be intensely jealous if there's a Fiesta Red or Lake Placid Blue run of it.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 09:23 (two years ago) link
They've done it before, the Lee Ranaldo signature model:http://fencedinarea.com/Images/Gear/Fender_LeeRanaldo_02_150814_med.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
Different pickups though. Fender "revoiced" their then current WRHB to sound like the old ones. There's a very detailed discussion about all this on https://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=107104
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
I am not going to play a Fender with humbuckers
Not on a boat, not with a goat
I will not do it, sorry. Cool if that's your thing but if I want to play a guitar with humbuckers it will not be anything on Leo's platform
― that of a giant Slor (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
boo my Tele Custom is my favourite guitar
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
I'm just more comfortable with a Jazzmaster or Jaguar than anything else, if I needed a drop C 7-string with EMGs I'd find a way to do it in one of those.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
fender honors 60 years of the jaguar by releasing an "ultra luxe" variant with....dual humbuckers, through-body stringing, a tune-o-matic, and (worst of all, a sin to end all sins) 25.5" scale length
https://www.fender.com/articles/gear/60-anniversary-jaguar?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20220414_Jaguar&utm_term=fender&src=email15DT041422&smtrctid=ffa5dba0-b6db-484d-a883-09fc217e39eb&c3ch=ecommemail&c3nid=20220414_Jaguar
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 April 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
"honouring its rich legacy by systematically erasing every single design element specific to the Jaguar"
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 15 April 2022 01:35 (two years ago) link
if you buy this guitar you go through a time warp and become the rhythm guitarist of a forgettable, thursday-esque 2000s emo band.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 15 April 2022 01:41 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Ramones Leave the Capitol (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 April 2022 01:42 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkibmgLoRa0
A real Jagblaster with the offset bridge and vibrato and the new Cunife Wide Range Humbuckers would be fucking awesome and the total amount of retooling needed by Fender would be updating CNC files to rout the bodies and pickguards for the humbuckers.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 16 April 2022 05:57 (two years ago) link
Or if supplies are limited on those, just put in regular humbuckers, whatever.
or Firebird pickups
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 16 April 2022 05:58 (two years ago) link
burn the heretic
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 16 April 2022 06:44 (two years ago) link
Could always just get a CIJ Fender Jaguar Special HH - at least you'll have a 24" neck and 7.25 radius to start with.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 April 2022 07:00 (two years ago) link
or if you want a longer scale, https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--huFLClf9--/f_auto,t_large/v1619740724/nl7pxhnvufgeqm8hjkmf.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 16 April 2022 07:51 (two years ago) link
Offsets without the offset bridge and vibrato are crimes against god IMO. Pickups, scale length and headstocks are negotiable but those two things are required.
Also semi-hollow offsets that do away with the forearm curve, bad very bad.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 16 April 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
squier makes a shoreline gold and a fiesta red HH jaguar that I've thought about buying used to convert to an actual jaguar but neither has the proper bridge or trem routing and one has a stupid strat jack on the front
― joygoat, Saturday, 16 April 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
My friend has an unstained dark wood jazz master, it’s a thing of beauty
― calstars, Sunday, 17 April 2022 00:30 (two years ago) link
There's a Jaguar partscaster on Reverb with Super Distortions that's oddly compelling - I mostly hate the idea of a maple neck with black blocks, especially on an offset, but it winds up looking pretty good on this one.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 26 April 2022 01:53 (two years ago) link
Good review of the AVII Jazzmaster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9_sa_fsLo
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 19 November 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
yikes. never been in the market for a usa-made fender but they have seemed to have a decent rep for a long time now, certainly not with qc issues like that
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:02 (one year ago) link
yeah wow those am vintage series were always prided on being super mint
― im a beacon of light (Spottie), Monday, 21 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
I have a squire jagmaster. It was the vista series from the 90s. Wonderful neck. Great vibrations
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 21 November 2022 19:24 (one year ago) link