Archive for the ‘Jazzmaster’ Category
A great fender interview with Nels Cline where he talks a bit about and shows off his Jaguars, Jazzmasters, and FX.
url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzn0KOLrarw
Forum member Garagetone recently posted up some info and photos about a Jazzstang project he is working on. You can see a few select photos and quotes from his thread in the post below.
To see even more photos and information see the full forum thread HERE.
After I crafted a bunch of “standard” bodies, I decided to merge the guitars from my two favorite bands. Kurdt’s Jag Stang, with Thurston’s Jazzmaster. – Garagetone
Nice work Garagetone!
Jazzstang Design
Jazzstang Build Body Blank
Jazzstang Build - body routed and shaped
Jazzstang Build - hardware mounting
Jazzstang Build - hardware mounting
Jazzstang Build - painted
Jazzstang Build - with neck
EDIT: Updated with demo video.
Check out more from Garagetone on his Myspace Page.
Here’s a couple oldie but goodie videos. J Mascis and Lee Ranaldo talking Jazzmasters!
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We love featuring the project guitars of our forum members and regular visitors. Here is another great project guitar from forum regular CROSS. A regency red jazzmaster project. Below are details and photos of CROSS’ project.
Here is the forum post if you want to jump in on the original project discussion. [url]
CROSS wrote: The body is alder. I bought the timber off Ebay from America.
The template is from guitarbuildngtemplates.com. These templates are not ‘Fender-accurate’, I think they are copied from Warmoth. The shape itself is fine, but the neck and body cavities needed a bit of adjusting.
It fits the US jazzmaster pickguard which I bought from Dazbootman. Just w/b/w. I may upgrade to brown tortoishell.
The neck is from allparts. It’s an amazing neck. 7 1/4″ radius. I stained it, sprayed it with gloss auto acrylic. The decal is from decaljoe. I would have liked to have built my own neck with the correct Jazzmaster design , but I don’t have the time.
I finished the body with Auto acrylic. I have used this colour before with the Musicmaster project I made a while ago. It polished up nicely. It’s very fragile paint, but keeps the shine.
AVRI pickups with cream/aged covers.
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We often get questions from folks newly interested in the jag and jazzy like this one. So this post is for you owners out there to share your thoughts.
Are you a Fender Jaguar or Jazzmaster owner? What led you to your choice? And if you happen to own both we want to hear your comparisons between the two guitars.
While very similar on the surface the Jaguar and Jazzmaster have some basic differences. Below are some of the technical differences between the Classic Player Jaguar and Jazzmaster.
- The jazzmaster has a 25.5″ scale neck while the jaguar has a 24″ scale neck.
- The jazzmaster has 21 medium jumbo frets – the jaguar 22.
- The controls and pickup switching are different between the two.
- The significant differences between the pickups of the two.
- The new classic player jaguars also have more pickup options like the dual humbucker jaguar model.
With those basic differences what ultimately led to your choice? What do you recommend people currently shopping for one or the other look out for?
Fender Classic Player Jaguar
Fender Classic Player Jazzmaster
Thanks for sharing!
Summer NAMM 2008 has just wrapped up in Nashville, Tennessee and here are some of our favorite from the show. There were no real scoops from the show as a lot of the news trickled out leading up to the show.
Fender announcements
- Classic Player Jaguar Special and Classic Player Jaguar Special HH
- Classic Player Jazzmaster Special
- Billy Corgan Stratocaster
- Jaguar Bass
- 65 Princeton Reverb Guitar Amp
Gibson announcements
If you are a Jaguar or Jazzmaster fan this is great news for you. Affordable Mexican models probably right down at your local guitar shops soon. You no longer have any excuses as to why you can’t find a Mustang, Jaguar, or Jazzmaster any more. But don’t even ask about jag-stangs… lol
Fender has introduced new Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars in the Classic Player line. The Classic Player Jaguar and Jazzmaster are Mexican made with some very nice updates and improvements.
Notable updates/improvements are:
- Adjusto-Matic Bridge (somewhat like a tune-o-matic)
- 9.5″ fretboard radius (compared to the 7.25″ radius previously)
- sustain/stability improvements – increased back angle, tremolo plate moved closer to bridge
- dual humbucker option on the jaguar
- “hotter” pickups
These new Classic Player models should nicely fill the gap left when the Japan made models became no longer available. Just the bridge and fretboard radius improvements alone will make this guitar look very attractive compared to the much higher priced American Vintage Jaguars and Jazzmasters.
The dual humbucker sunburst jaguar will also undoubtedly be a favorite of the Cobain fans. Who will no longer need to go through the hassles and expense of getting one of the “Kurtified” Fender Japan Jaguars.
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We plan to have a hands on review posted in the future.
