FWIW, my VM Tele is absolutely awesome and is probably the best purchase I have made in a while. As far as chime goes, while the neck humbucker is pretty meaty, the other two are quite responsive and..."chime-y" Sounds great with light OD, and plays fantastic...for 300$... I did look at t...

As the person that started this thread I thought I'd update on my search. I still haven't purchased a new guitar, but I've narrowed it down (somewhat). My budget falls under $300US and perhaps not coincidentally each guitar I'm looking at falls in that range. Here's the list... Jagmaster 24" sc...

What's your budget? We just sold our Squier Musicmaster but that guitar would have been perfect! (According to preference of course) My budget started at $400 for a standard MIM tele, then I researched the Squires (Jagmaster and Duo Sonic) that fall under $300... but then I started pining for a use...

I went to Guitar Center yesterday. They had a Jagmaster but of course no Duo Sonic. The neck pickup for the Jagmaster was tilted... I don't mean angled from perpendicular from the strings, I mean the top surface sloped. One of my Epiphone's pickups is this way as well and I always thought it was a f...

markocaster wrote:duo sonic

this is new and affordable

Cool, I hadn't seen that one. Anyone play one yet?

bubbles_horwitz wrote:jagmasters don't really sound like jaguars. if you just want the look, then go for it. if you want the sound, save up.

That's what I figured, but just wanted to get confirmation. I guess the other question is, how's the quality of the Jagmaster in general (keeping in mind the price)?

Malik wrote:You're going to have to get used to 25.5 eventually. Start now.

Certainly not the advice I expected from a website called "Shortscale.org"

It's been 15 years since I played guitar, and even back then I wasn't too serious about it. I had (and still have) a '89 Epiphone, and for whatever reason it just never felt comfortable to play. Maybe it's the 25.5" neck scale, or maybe it's the flat neck radius, maybe I just never gave it a ch...