Guitarded 1959 Fender Jazzmaster on Ebay

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:17 pm

It went for $1,742.77(it's not mine)

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:25 pm

Oh that poor formerly beautiful guitar!!!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:28 pm

What is that neck pickup?

Mr.Ripley · Post by **Mr.Ripley** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:30 pm

It's a Coronado pickup

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:38 pm

Mr.Ripley wrote:It's a Coronado pickup

Ah! are they like a P-90?

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:47 pm

Poor guitar.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:58 pm

Shame about the age, but for me this is one of the cooler bodged guitars.

Like a Neil Young Jazzmaster

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:01 pm

i like it.

wwrrss · Post by **wwrrss** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:03 pm

I'd rock fuck out of that, It reminds me of Terri from The Ex's back to front-upside down Jaguar.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:14 pm

I like Robert Smith's 3rd pickup mod better

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:11 pm

I really like it. At first I thought it was one of those funny looking Eko guitars.

Post by **Doog** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:22 pm

stewart wrote:i like it.

+1

It's pretty nifty in a wonky way. Wifty.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:23 pm

the other thing is, it could be returned to more or less stock with not much trouble if you so desired.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 6:25 pm

I like the look, but at second glance all I can do is ask "WHAT? WHY?"

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:27 pm

Nick wrote:I like the look, but at second glance all I can do is ask "WHAT? WHY?"

see, I'm in this boat. It looks really cool but none of the mods make any sense to me. I'm going to take the neck pickup and move it back and add a less cool neck pickup. I like 3x3 tuners in stead of 6 in line, for no real reason. You say it has a trem? It's not a bigsby? Fuck it, I like the bigsby trem better.

I understand people tune-o-matic-ing their jazzys but this? just doens't make sense to me.

Mr.Ripley · Post by **Mr.Ripley** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 8:30 pm

westtexasred wrote:
Mr.Ripley wrote:It's a Coronado pickup
Ah! are they like a P-90?

I've not much personal experience (unlike some members on the boards DGN8R Stewart ect who own actual examples) but Curtis Novak took one apart and it looks to be a similar design but with a smaller bar magnet housed inside rather then underneath the coil.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:01 pm

err... yeah. robert smith's pickup mod was cool, but this is just a hack job. I'm pretty much of the personal opinon that all of these mods are shit, poorly done, and add nothing beneficial to the appearance or functionality of the guitar. but hey, maybe I'm being a bit hard on them. maybe they just liked the coronado pickup and bigsby. OK. they're poorly installed, and I prefer a jag trem to a bigsby, but whatever, this guy just preferred it that way. so, fine enough. but none of that stuff on the headstock makes any sense, or look like it's helping anything in any way, and just adds an overall sense of fuckwittery to the whole job.

DGNR8 · Post by **DGNR8** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:34 pm

Had I not just bought one, I might have been all over that shit. Those old tuners sell for $200 alone. I kind of like the look. Then again, with a 59 I would have had to fix it.

Tell me this isn't the same MANIAC. It a botch with black paint and a weird hook on the top, sold by the same pawnshop. It also connects the Grover tuners.

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:10 pm

There are some interesting ideas in there I can't help but think it's absolutely tragic. Maybe - just maybe - if the modder had been more careful and done the jobs properly I could at least understand it and call it acceptable. A 'hack job' indeed. I think Bigsbys *look* cool in a Jules Verne/steampunk kind of way but there's no way I'd actually want to use one! I know I'm in a minority who actually like the Jazzmaster trem, but honestly...I'd have the Bigsby off that thing in a heartbeat.

Actually, I'd want this guitar just to get the poor thing back to original spec. $1,742.77 sounds like a lot of money though, when you'd have to either 1. redo the mods properly or 2. restore her to her former beauty. It makes my inner JM fanboy shed a Manly Tear.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:21 pm

Concretebadger wrote:I know I'm in a minority who actually like the Jazzmaster trem

perhaps on www.StockbrokersWithStrats.com you are, but not here.