NEVER ever thought i'd get my creepy little hands on one of these... and now it's here!
as you might know by now, Rick(ard) here was looking for a "perfect" worn-in B&B jazzmaster, and he'd trade for this his Maverick (which used to belong to member here DarrelT, years ago, and refinished the body in some sorta IBM). Rick got a modded/routed but original sunburst Maverick/Custom body for it and slapped all the parts on this one.
well i have/had 2 B&B jazzers, the '69 with the dimarzio and AVRI pups, and the '72 with the buchered neck (Gonkulator is working on it still, and i'm still gonna need someone to make a fretboard for it... please!). we decided it would be fair for both if i gave him the unmolested '72 body with the '69s neck on it (he posted his NGD above), and so we did it.
the Mav arrived a couple days ago with no probs, and the "extra" blue body! :w00t: (i'm gonna need another neck for that one, since a normal strat or so neck WILL NOT fit - but that'll be another story)...
i'm still OH SO AMAZED this has happened. plus, i find the MAVERICK logo SO MUCH cooler (THEE COOLEST) than the Custom's.
i've had an XII before (and sold it to someone here, a friend of mjet's). i've had a friggin' Bass V, and i do still own my '63 Bass VI project (to be fixed this summer, promissed!!!). but i never ever dreamed of owning a Mav.
the neck is wider, of course, but VERY comfortable. the sound is warmer and less shrill than on the XII (iirc) and it's a VERY playable guitar, all over.
Rich had warned me of the pups being very microphonic, but i really don't find them that much of a PITA - or at all.
it's wonderful.
i stare at it for HOURS.
life's good.
but ok, here's porn:
(sorry there wasn't too much sun anymore...)
yes it was once modded for sting-thru... :fp:
here you can see where/how they plugged the XII's string-thru. that's why they were all black on the back.
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