Jazz mods..

[SonicD]

okay. i do not know which one to buy. advice please?

edit:

changed name cause i couldnt be bothered to make a new one.

which mods should i do to make it sound like a real american jazz?

i want usa pickups and a mustang bridge, enything else like tuners ect?

i calculated it and it was aboutr 150 which isnt very expensive

[FU]

I have had both. I love the look of the Jaguar(the switches etc.), which I bought first. But prefer the jazzmaster. Each has a unique sound but are in the same family tree. The playability is where I think the Jazzmaster is better. The jaguar has a shorter neck. That changes the feel, string tension etc. I don’t think it’s cramped, just different.

Which ever one you buy, I recommend having in hand to replace the day you buy one, a mustang bridge. The stock biridge didn’t work for me at all.

[SonicD]

yeah i know, ill add a buzz stop as well

which has better action, tension ect ?

[SonicD]

i think ill go for the jag. what is the switch where the rythm knobs are? strangle? phase?

[tonas]

My jag is Japanese. I have never liked the tone, that guitar has no balls. I’m getting ready to swith out the pickups and pots to the American Vintage ones. I’m also going to put a Mustang bridge in it. I have had it since 91′ and its been a agreat guitar. Its played a lot of shows. The bridge was an issue at first, until I took some pliers to the screws and bent the threading so they would stay in place. Ever since its been fine. I would recommend that if you do buy the Jag switch out the pick ups and pots, they’re badly made, and don’t have any balls (really trebley).

[FU]

It’s a separate tone circuit. The switch makes it ally dark, jazzy and sophisticated….It has two sets of volume and tone controls.

I don’t need the buzz stop with the mustang bridge. Maybe I’m just playing way too loud to hear any buzzing, but the bridge did the trick for me.

[SonicD]

ill see, im really in love with jazzmasters nowdays.

so no need for mustang bridge AND buzz stop?

okay

[SonicD]

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[Randy Jane]

How are the pickups on the Jap Jazzy’s? Are they like the Jap Jag’s? Weak and thin…or are they alright?

Also, does anyone know where to get a refinish done fairly cheap? I dont want to do it myself as I tend to not make factory-like finishes. My finished dont look the friggin little flat black rattle can Civics racing around here but they dont look Fender either. I want to refinish my Jagmaster to Lake Placid Blue with matching headstock, anyone know about how much that would run me? Does Warmoth do this? Re-ranch? Thanks, R/J

[SonicD]

from what ive heard the pickups are allright overall. the thing that sucks is that they dont make yr jazz/jag sound like a real one. thats why i want usa pickups

[tonas]

Found this quote on http://www.jagandjazz.com –
"Perhaps the strangest difference between new and old guitars are the reissue Jazzmaster pickups. For some reason, the Fender company decided to veer from the original design here. The original Jazzmaster pickups have a shallow and wide coil winding. This allows the pickup to sample a wider area of the string and provides a thick tone. The reissue Jazzmaster pickups have narrow and deep coil windings, like a Strat or Jaguar. These pickups sound relatively thin, and much more like a Strat or a Jaguar than old Jazzmasters."

Thats what I’d been trying to say.

[Stormy320]

"tonas " wrote:

Found this quote on http://www.jagandjazz.com –
"Perhaps the strangest difference between new and old guitars are the reissue Jazzmaster pickups. For some reason, the Fender company decided to veer from the original design here. The original Jazzmaster pickups have a shallow and wide coil winding. This allows the pickup to sample a wider area of the string and provides a thick tone. The reissue Jazzmaster pickups have narrow and deep coil windings, like a Strat or Jaguar. These pickups sound relatively thin, and much more like a Strat or a Jaguar than old Jazzmasters."

Thats what I’d been trying to say.

Please clarify – this is referring to the Japanese ones…not the new USA versions??

Fender claims the USA versions are just like the originals??

[tonas]

Yeah that quote is in regards to the Japanese ones, the not as good as the American ones in my opinion.

[SonicD]

so the american sound vintage?

[tonas]

Well the American Jaguars and Jazzmaster sound like Jaguars and Jazzmasters not Stratocasters like the Japanese ones do.

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