Jazzmaster, Mustang, Hum Pickguard on a Strat

toez10 · Post by **toez10** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:59 pm

Well, I was bored, and too broke to buy a Jazzmaster, a Mustang, and an EVH Kramer, so I got to work with my pickup winder, and very lazzily took a dremel to a strat pickguard. Voila! It plays like butter, and covers a pretty broad tonal range. I'm thinking of redoing the wiring with the blender mod to be able to bring in the Jazzmaster neck pickup in combination with the Bridge pickup as well as the Middle pickup (or both), for an even broader range of sounds. So far though, I'm really loving the combinations... and the fact that it is a fairly atrocious looking instrument.

Awstin · Post by **Awstin** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:06 pm

Sweeeeet

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:19 pm

It might not look all that elegant, but from the POV of fellow players it screams versatility, which is probably more important, thinking about it. There's no shame in choosing functionality over aesthetics!

I bet the JM pickup in the neck sounds sexy as hell.

toez10 · Post by **toez10** » Mon Jul 16, 2012 12:40 pm

Concretebadger wrote:It might not look all that elegant, but from the POV of fellow players it screams versatility, which is probably more important, thinking about it. There's no shame in choosing functionality over aesthetics!

I bet the JM pickup in the neck sounds sexy as hell.

You make a very good point. Personally, I love the way it looks. I considered spending the time to build jigs for routing the pickups, and starting with a fresh, unrouted pickguard, but this way just seemed more fitting. The jazzmaster pickup sounds fantastic in the neck, and that's really the reason I started the whole project.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:29 pm

My god, it's hideous. I bet it sounds amazing, but JESUS.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Thu Jul 19, 2012 6:42 pm

I like it. It's like a Fender Nighthawk