If you could design a signature guitar...

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:21 pm

I'd go for a Jazz-stang: JM circuitry and pickups, minus the rarely-used rhythm circuit, squeezed into a Mustang body. JM/Jag trem, 'stang bridge, and a neck that I haven't decided on yet. Probably a Jag's, since I've heard they're thicker than those of a 'stang.

I love the transparent dark blue of one of the Sonmic Youth sig JMs, and would probably pair that with a white pickguard. A hastily-prepared pic of what I plan to do:

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aen · Post by **aen** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:39 pm

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Great success!
I am dreaming of another baritone, though. With a Stargazer body. yummmmmmmm

Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:54 pm

Aen that guitar is ridiculously cool.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:35 pm

I've had two. They were pretty much the same guitar in basic function except for when both pickups were on (where the Jag sounded like a Jag and the SG was an out-of-phase bucker sound)

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:07 pm

Maybe somthing like this:

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Though now that it's on paper, I'm not feeling it as much as I thought I might... needs some revision... and a headstock

P-90 bridge, Jag neck, high pass filter switch, 5-way selector (neck, N+B out of phase, N+B parallel, N+B series, bridge), Jaguar scale and bridge/vibrato with tail slightly closer to bridge...

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Here are some potential specs:
Specs:
.: Neck pickup - Jaguar vintage single coil
.: Bridge pickup - P90
.: Bridge - Fender floating tremolo (Jaguar/Jazzmaster)
.: Switching - 5-position blade switch (1: neck, 2: Neck+Bridge - out of phase, 3: Neck+Bridge - parallel, 4: Neck+Bridge - series, 5: Bridge)
.: Controls - Volume (1MegaOhm), Tone (1MegaOhm), high-pass filter (.003ÂµF)
.: Body - Alder
.: Neck - Bolt-on, maple, rosewood finger board, binding, clay dots, vintage fret wire (.080" X .037")
.: Scale - 24â€�
.: Radius - 7.25â€�
.: Nut width - 1 5/8â€�
.: Misc - headstock truss rod access, chrome switch and control plates, output jack on lower bout; headstock undecided, likely 6 on a side, possibly reversed

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:49 pm

This is difficult question for me to answer.

I really love Fender Student Models like Broncos and Mustangs, but I have equal love for Jazzmasters and Jaguar. Until I finish my Jazzmaster Project, I am not sure exactly, but I did design a future build that has the body shape of a Jaguar/Mustang, pickups of Jaguar, tremolo/bridge of a Mustang and body thickness of the Mustang. Pickup configuration is like a Cyclone II.

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Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:33 pm

taylornutt wrote:Photoshop mockup

Like it!

stewart wrote:i'd probably go for something along these lines:

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single bridge pickup with a black cover, black witch hats, dot and bound neck. no idea what all the controls would do, i'd have to think about that.

I'm really curious to find what you figure out for the switching

aen wrote:
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Great success!

This is a beautiful guitar.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:41 pm

Ankhanu wrote:
stewart wrote:single bridge pickup with a black cover, black witch hats, dot and bound neck. no idea what all the controls would do, i'd have to think about that.
I'm really curious to find what you figure out for the switching

ideally a big strip of gaffa tape would sort that problem, but if not maybe a built in fuzz in place of the rhythm circuit, kill switch, bass cut and something else in the lower circuit. not that i'd ever use such things in a gigging environment.

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:54 pm

Gabriel wrote:Aen that guitar is ridiculously cool.

Its my new best buddy. I used the neck off my old best buddy.

jumbledupthinking · Post by **jumbledupthinking** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 10:08 pm

I'd go for a musicmaster with a jag trem, either in shoreline gold or that brown stain that the Elvis Costello signature JM came in. Think this'll be my next project as it goes.

Addam · Post by **Addam** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:45 am

I'm slowly working on a Jagstang with a little more Jag and a little more Stang.
It's got a Mustang lower horn, and a wider more Mustang-like upper waist area.
The body is slender like a Mustang and contoured too.
I think it looks slicker and 'faster' than the OG JS.

I'm gonna be using a black superdistortion in the bridge and a jag pickup in the neck position, again with a black cover.
Pots will be 1M and the bridge will be a tuneomatic and stoptail mounted on a Mustang plate.
The paint will be red.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:56 am

^ much nicer shape than the jag-stang. amazing how a couple of little tweaks can make such a vast improvement.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:28 pm

If I take all the bits I like aesthetically from guitars I would probably end up with something like a charvel surfcaster

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:43 pm

lorez wrote:If I take all the bits I like aesthetically from guitars I would probably end up with something like a charvel surfcaster

Haha, that's part of the reason I like those so much.

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