NGD: Jazzblaster: Ex-Empires, Fran, George, Reece, Cowbell??

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:48 pm

And whoever else?

So Empires awesomely got in touch with me a week back and offered to gift this to me as a fixer upper. It was an incredibly generous and cool thing to do and I was delighted when I received it! I'd liked the guitar since it was first put together on the boards and Empires remembered my interest.

It didn't need much, I took it apart and gave it a good cleaning. The bridge pickup was already a Dimarzio Super Distortion, and I knew I had an other Dimarzio going largely unused in another guitar (an 80s PAF pro I think?), so I installed that in the neck. I've strung it with 013s and tuned to D standard. This thing rocks! Still getting used to the Jazzmaster switching and I'm still not entirely certain it's wired right, but there are a lot of great sounds in there.

It could do with a new nut, the current one is broken but doesn't affect playability. I would also like to get a new bridge for it. Something Tune-o-matic but with height adjustable saddles as I'm not sure what the radius is on the neck.

Quick phone demo (oh, for the love of a guitar tuner):

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Post by **Doog** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 12:55 pm

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEF

Your neighbours must love you, hahaha

Glad you're so pumped by it, Jazzmasters are truly the most ergonomic guitars, mine fit me like a frickin glooooove

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 1:43 pm

Doog wrote:BEEEEEEEEEEEEEFYour neighbours must love you, hahaha

If you can still hear the guitar acoustically, it's not loud enough.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 2:35 pm

Free guitars are always great... but that's a particularly good free guitar day.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 3:39 pm

!!!!!

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:01 pm

Nice one. Is Reece okay, does anyone know?

markleton · Post by **markleton** » Sun Jul 30, 2017 1:07 pm

I owned it briefly after Fran (I think it was Fran). Pickups were awesome but neck wasn't quite for me.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Jul 31, 2017 12:33 pm

Ha, okay.

Hands up who didn't own this guitar?

speedfish · Post by **speedfish** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:41 pm

Nice! Is that the original neck?

Thanks,

George · Post by **George** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 4:46 pm

Not one of mine at any point, but it sounds beastly.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 5:28 pm

Awesome... I'm still on the Vista Jagmaster myself.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 7:12 pm

Ha! That's a blast from the past Paul. Proper Shortscale history.
Did quite a few gigs with that, always sounded good. Can't remember why I sold it now, probably during one of my many work less periods.

Good to see you have it, I know you'll put it through it's paces.
Sounds ace through the Matamp.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:17 pm

lmao I owned that body too. I sent it to Aug to get it refin'd black.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Wed Aug 02, 2017 10:46 pm

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:25 am

Noirie. wrote:Nice one. Is Reece okay, does anyone know?

+1 not seen reece about in ages. missed him

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 11:55 am

Progrockabuse wrote:
Noirie. wrote:Nice one. Is Reece okay, does anyone know?
+1 not seen reece about in ages. missed him

I checked on FB when Noirie posted the above & he doesn't seem to be active on there either.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:47 pm

Lovely lad Reece was, I hope he's okay.

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Tue Aug 08, 2017 11:15 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:lmao I owned that body too. I sent it to Aug to get it refin'd black.

I think that was the one I owned, now lives in Scotland

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon Aug 14, 2017 3:07 pm

hell yeah I was just thinking about this guitar, glad to see it's still in the family.

also hi shortscale, long time no see.

NickD · Post by **NickD** » Tue Aug 15, 2017 11:13 am

Hi Reece