VM Squier Stratjack Jag for mad cheap

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:02 pm

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/ ... 0000001000

You know you want this piece of shit.

Soggasaurus · Post by **Soggasaurus** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 1:44 pm

I seriously considered this (and the strat jack Jazzmaster) before the Vintage Modified models came out. I'll pass now, though a part of me wants to get it to have something like a Jagmaster around.

wadeaminute · Post by **wadeaminute** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:08 pm

I bought one of these for $300 when they came out, with no regrets. I had meant to chop it up and make a shortscale Tele-Esquire-Jaguar out of it, but once I got it I loved the pickups, and nothing was wrong with it, so it has remained stock for over three years. If I didn't already have one, I'd buy this in a second. Sustains for days, for some reason.
Japan actually got different colours for this model, IIRC. White and CAR, I think. A white one would be nice.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:43 pm

I kind of do actually but I don't need any more guitars. Don't know how some of you can stand having 30 of these things.

$170 is a really good deal. If it had smaller fretwire I'd buy it for the neck and sell the loaded body.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 3:45 pm

This item doesn't currently ship to United Kingdom.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:08 pm

'Cism

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:05 pm

Btw, I already tried for the current 10% off promo code, doesn't work on this.

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:08 pm

I tried to love these but couldn't. But for $169 it's totally worth it just for the parts. Good project guitar too.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:19 pm

ugly as hell, i'd just spend the extra skrilla on the VM jags that look like actual jags, get that SEAFOAM GREEN TOO.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:36 am

I'm totally gonna get a Jazzmaster from this series one day and put a '50s RI maple neck on it for Leo's Workshop vibez.

Post by **dots** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 2:03 pm

These parts guitars they're putting out now look like weird dhit fender was doing in the 70s.

vhwork · Post by **vhwork** » Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:22 pm

Wish I wanted this.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 2:19 am

Nick wrote:I kind of do actually but I don't need any more guitars. Don't know how some of you can stand having 30 of these things.

Troof spoken.

And I'm getting too old to dissect delightful cheapies for adding a heap of parts to the mountain of things waiting to be Frankenstein'd on a rainy day. Heaven bless those who are more creative/constructive than myself, of course.

Janine · Post by **Janine** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:17 pm

I played one and it wasn't all that bad.

It's just irredeemably ugly.

Maybe if it was was given a black refin and a black pickguard but meh. Not worth time and money.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:53 am

ultratwin wrote:And I'm getting too old to dissect delightful cheapies for adding a heap of parts to the mountain of things waiting to be Frankenstein'd on a rainy day.

I reached this conclusion recently after a few resurrected Epis/Gibbo-style kits/partscasters left me up to my nose in buckers, TOMs, nut blanks, ugly tort sheets I don't even like... I haven't really reached a conclusion yet actually, I bought an SG to "get rid of parts", which is arguably a bigger problem. Shopping for a case for it now.

Mattsican · Post by **Mattsican** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:44 am

dammit. i bought one.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Tue Oct 14, 2014 6:41 pm

I wanna like it but I don't.

astro · Post by **astro** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:49 am

I have one:

I love it. It's a great guitar. Well built, and the stock pickups are fantastic. Really the only thing wrong is that Squier made it fugly. Fiesta red is a nice colour, but adding cheap printed tort plus zebra coil pickups turns it into a massive clusterfuck of clashing visual noise. I de-uglified mine by adding a black pickguard, pickup rings, and metal covers over the stock pickups. I think I made it pretty, and these were cheap and easy upgrades to doa. And I like the bridge. It is super adjustable and rock solid. Plus it looks less "Gibsonized" than having a TOM bridge like so many other humbuckered Fenders.

Squier needs to stop using the printed tort. I know that the decent stuff is too expensive for budget guitars, but Squier should just stick to solid colours. Using the crappy printed tort just ends up making an otherwise great guitar look cheap.

Mattsican · Post by **Mattsican** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:40 am

astro wrote:I have one:

I love it. It's a great guitar. Well built, and the stock pickups are fantastic. Really the only thing wrong is that Squier made it fugly. Fiesta red is a nice colour, but adding cheap printed tort plus zebra coil pickups turns it into a massive clusterfuck of clashing visual noise. I de-uglified mine by adding a black pickguard, pickup rings, and metal covers over the stock pickups. I think I made it pretty, and these were cheap and easy upgrades to doa. And I like the bridge. It is super adjustable and rock solid. Plus it looks less "Gibsonized" than having a TOM bridge like so many other humbuckered Fenders.

Squier needs to stop using the printed tort. I know that the decent stuff is too expensive for budget guitars, but Squier should just stick to solid colours. Using the crappy printed tort just ends up making an otherwise great guitar look cheap.

did you make the guard yourself?

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 11:01 am

Back up to $299