Tell Me about the Fender Jazzmaster (MOD: Also Jaguar, etc.)

Or if supplies are limited on those, just put in regular humbuckers, whatever.

or Firebird pickups

burn the heretic

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.

or if you want a longer scale,
https://images.reverb.com/image/upload/s--huFLClf9--/f_auto,t_large/v1619740724/nl7pxhnvufgeqm8hjkmf.jpg

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.

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

My friend has an unstained dark wood jazz master, it’s a thing of beauty

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.

Good review of the AVII Jazzmaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9_sa_fsLo

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

yeah wow those am vintage series were always prided on being super mint

I have a squire jagmaster. It was the vista series from the 90s. Wonderful neck. Great vibrations

I have a squire jagmaster. It was the vista series from the 90s. Wonderful neck. Great vibrations

https://guitarsforidiots.com/2019/10/02/under-appreciated-guitars-the-squier-vista-series-jagmaster-according-to-mckinley-kitts-of-flor/

I had a 62 reissue. Cool looking guitar but I ended up not liking it and sold it a few years later. That one did hold its value though. I guess I am pretty much a Strat guy for my surf tremolo guitar action.

Jazzmasters are funky instruments and definitely not something that is ready to go out of the box. The vintage style bridge and it's location can be a bit tricky. I'd definitely file it next to the Firebird banjo tuners, a Bigsby and any guitar with a Floyd for stuff you got to figure out how to deal with if you want to play one on a regular basis.

Fender seems to have sold a boodle of the Squire J Mascis models and people seem to like them.

couple of honeys hanging at my place
https://i.imgur.com/d2ZKdIj.jpg

That red matching headstock looks sharp.

Cheers. I was never a Candy Apple Red fan but that one is 35 years old and has darkened up nicely.

Roy Clark is the best...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT2PTetKMU8

Someone posted photos of the new Squire 12-string Jazzmaster's insides to r/offset and everyone is going full Zapruder film on the parts and possibilities
https://www.reddit.com/r/offset/comments/144c2d9/for_anyone_wondering_these_are_the_inner_workings/

Upgrade the wiring and the pickups and you would have a hell of a cool guitar with one of them.

do i need one of these? no

do i want one of these? fuck yes

For those that have a rat, big muff, blues driver AND a tone bender... a little something for everyone!:

https://www.fender.com/en-US/effects-pedals/boost-gain/fender-shields-blender-limited-edition/0234552099.html

huh i have a fender blender but i almost never use it, it's such an extreme and distinct sound

Run a pedalboard with the Albini Dude Incredible, Shields Blender and Sunn O))) Life Pedal to cover all your non-time based bases.

toss in the hizumitas pedal that earthquaker did w/the lady from boris!

I have a Rowland S Howard signature pedal - MXR D+ + Blue Box but I've never been able to tell if it's not functioning correctly or if the Blue Box is just that unusable for me. D+ side sounds great though.

I'm bringing my Acid Fuzz Sonic Boom 3-in-1 to this signature pedal festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjY2QJ1QnsU

(the catch is that you have to figure out Shields' tuning in order to do all that)

trying to figure out why this is $2-300 more than a stock Blender and it's basically the sag/clipping voltage feature (not really present on any mbv material afaik?)...

seems like i would rather take my regular blender and bring it to my soldering/mod guy and pay him $50 to mod it?

Ultra deep dive on the Squire Jazzmaster XII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYvll3Jwn2M

People need to stop making me want that.