PaLo_aLTo said: oh..i'm sorry mad mike 😁😁 ...coz I tried to open the linked and this computer i'm using doesn't have the required player..so I didn't know which one that elias was talking about...
hahaha 😁 so cool dude...I like it when you are using the tremolo and slide down or up...(i couldn't remember)...
that is an original vintage Jag? if I may ask??
Elias was talking about my old Van-Halen "I'm The One" video. That was long before I modified my guitar (or brought it closer to stock depending on how you look at it).
As far as the sliding thing, I'm not sure which one you're talking about. A lot of that I picked up off of Edward Van-Halen, Brad Gillis of Night Ranger, and Dimebag Darrell from Pantera. Those guys all used Floyd Rose equipped guitars, since it's the easiest way to do things with the trem bar, but I find the Floyd eats up a lot of the natural low end of the instrument with the large mass of metal that it's made of. The EVH type thing I do is where I whip my hand up the neck, then pull off and dive the bar down, whereas the Dimebag type thing I do all the time is hit a harmonic with the bar down a little, and let the bar back up, which makes for some pretty krazy high notes and wild sounds. Half this stuff I do without really thinking about it, as I slowly included it into my style over time. I never really focused on teqnique though, heck, I started trying to sweep pick a month ago, and I'm still not good enough to show that one off yet. Funny part is the Jaguar and Jag-Stang are the only 2 guitars I can come close to doing it decently on.
As for the guitar itself, it started off like this. A 1997-98 CIJ Fender Jaguar 62' Reissue, which had been modified with a Gibson ABR Tune-O-Matic that was filed to compensate for the neck radius, and the Cool Rails installed sans the original pickup claws or covers. It cost me $645 from The Guitar Hangar, and came with a hardshell. Shoot, they still have it posted in the SOLD section on their website.
After this, I bought a pair of standard Jaguar vintage reissue pickup covers, and an All-Parts Vintage Jaguar/Jazzmaster bridge. The holes for the ABR were re-routed to fit the Jaguar/JM bridge standard using a Dremel (using the non-destroyed original wood, and the noticable wood filler to my advantage, I actually left some to make the thimbles fit nice and snug). I then cut the tops off the pickup covers near level with the Cool Rails pickups, un-shimmed the neck, lowered the bridge down about 2mm from the top of the pickguard, and used the Bridge saddles to get enough upward tension to hold the strings on properly. It sounded thicker after all these changes, it kept it's Jaguar sound, but the instrument sounded more "whole" so to speak, not to mention looked much better.
