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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
oooooooooweeeeeee
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 12 September 2021 09:32 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
it's gorgeous! i absolute love it.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 12 September 2021 16:23 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Lovely guitar.
― earlnash, Saturday, 25 September 2021 21:45 (three 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
https://guitarsforidiots.com/2019/10/02/under-appreciated-guitars-the-squier-vista-series-jagmaster-according-to-mckinley-kitts-of-flor/
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Friday, 25 November 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
couple of honeys hanging at my placehttps://i.imgur.com/d2ZKdIj.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 November 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
That red matching headstock looks sharp.
― earlnash, Friday, 25 November 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
Cheers. I was never a Candy Apple Red fan but that one is 35 years old and has darkened up nicely.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 November 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Roy Clark is the best...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT2PTetKMU8
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
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 possibilitieshttps://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.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 9 June 2023 10:29 (one year ago) link
do i need one of these? no
do i want one of these? fuck yes
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 9 June 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link
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
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
huh i have a fender blender but i almost never use it, it's such an extreme and distinct sound
― na (NA), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
Run a pedalboard with the Albini Dude Incredible, Shields Blender and Sunn O))) Life Pedal to cover all your non-time based bases.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 23:00 (one year ago) link
toss in the hizumitas pedal that earthquaker did w/the lady from boris!
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 00:37 (one year ago) link
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.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:14 (one year ago) link
I'm bringing my Acid Fuzz Sonic Boom 3-in-1 to this signature pedal festival.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjY2QJ1QnsU
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 03:25 (one year ago) link