New to the forum - Project Jagstang

taylormade

Hi All -

thought I'd make one quick post just to say hello. I've been lurking here for a few months, and the info here is super helpful.

I finished my Jagstang rebuild/hotrod project over the weekend.

Basics - 1996/97 Fiesta Red Jagstang, all original hardware

Condition and Plan -

I bought the guitar from a friend-of-a-friend, it played - sort of - and I really liked the neck and short scale. I also had been trying out different humbucker guitars, and when this one just dropped into my lap, I had to take a stab at it. Only the front slide switch worked, the pots were spotty, the strings were toast, but the basics were there and in good shape. $200 purchase price.

Initially I just planned to sort out the switch and pot issues, so I pulled the scratch plate, and... someone had butchered the wiring internally. It looked like someone had rewired the front switch for neck/both/bridge pickups. The rear switch wasn't connected to anything. The overall wiring wasn't good.

After doing some homework here, I decided that if I was going to the trouble of rewiring the switches and replacing the pots, I'd just go whole hog and do a "custom" wiring job, and new switches, pickups, pots.

Hardware -

I wanted to make this a somewhat budget build, and I was looking for something to do mostly bluesy type work on with a humbucker.

Neck - Kent Armstrong Hot SIngle

Bridge - Dimarzio DP207, blade toward the bridge

500K pots, 0.022 tone cap

2 new switchcraft slide switches

All in black.

I used the gmarts wiring diagram, simply because I couldn't decide what I wanted to do with the second switch. If I get in there again, I might get crazy with coil tapping or something.

I had to get new knobs to fit the new pots, so I picked up a set of strat knobs in black for tone/vol.

Impressions -

Well, it didn't play all that well before, but it does now. Nice tone, the pickups are pretty hot, so super clean tones are a little iffy, but that's not what I play, so I don't really care.

If anyone's interested, and I can figure out how, I'll post pics.

So, in closing, thanks for all the help!

nirvana23freak

pics for sure. i love the looks of fiesta red with the black pups and switches.

taylormade

Well, let's see what I can figure out here.

For some reason, the pics are sized to 320x240, but they show up huge. Any suggestions?

nirvana23freak

i dont like the strat knobs, but hey its your guitar

taylormade

I'm not so sure I do either, but the stock knobs didn't fit the new shafts, and I wanted some sort of knob on there. I'd like something more stock-ish - no numbers or words, but those were what I could source locally on a saturday 😀

Fran

Nice job, well done.

tylerfender

i agree with Fran..looks good.

nirvana23freak

i dunno about it, but would the solid shaft mustang knobs with the set screws fit?

taylormade

it sounds like you are about to teach me something, because I don't have a clue. Do you have some pics or a link that shows/explains what you are talking about? (Solid Shaft, setscrew?)

nirvana23freak

If you look at the knobs that came with your jagstang they will have little ridges inside of the whole where you place it on the knob. that one, you can get at guitarpartsresource.com, have a shaft taht has no ridges, and i think will be bigger. The screw holds it onto the pot. Im not 100% sure this would work, its just one of my theories.

AnotherTool

It will work.

The chrome domes have those screws in them too, everyone used to have them on jag-stangs about ten years ago.

taylormade

Ahh, gotcha. I guess I've not seen (or paid enough attention) those close up like that.

Very cool!