Where did you buy your first short scale?

[ultratwin]

Small shop in Seoul, missing trem arm and a grub screw. 'Stang bridge and heavy gauge noodles are all it took for me to love the thing.

[robert(original)]

bought my j.s. in 98 or 99 from a guy in canada for 360.00 plus like 30 bucks for shipping.
it was, and still has been my number one, besides the breif stint that my tele took over, and my avri, took over around that time.

[out99990]

From a place called "Bizarre Guitars" in Phoenix, AZ. in 2003. I had called all over this country-literally a couple of hundred calls and i finally found the lefty mustang i was looking for-oly white with red tort pg and hardcase. The only problem (being a Japanese model) was the width at the nut was only a shade over 1&1/2"-way too narrow for my mitts. So i sold it and now i'm having a body made and will get a U.S.A. Custom Guitars neck for it. I've never recovered from that original lust virus, and i have no intention of seeking help (other than in finding lefty mustangs!!!).

[aen]

i still dont have a shortscale.

Whattaboutcho Bronco, son?

[cobascis]

Daddy's Junkie music, 2008. $400 for my CAR MIJ Jaguar, happiest moment of my guitar going life. Unfortunately, it currently lies dismantled, on my floor, missing a neck pickup, with unnecessary solder all over the brass plates.

[rodvonbon]

My first was a near mint '65 Mustang I paid $150 for in a guitar/pawn shop some time in the late 80's I think.

[DGNR8]

I got my Musicmaster in 1978 in a trade. I lost parts of it, but 30 years later, it's back on the road, like an old VW. That mando now has a black guard and single coil. The white rails is en route to Fran. It was a little overpowering.

[Mo Law-ka]

i still dont have a shortscale.

Whattaboutcho Bronco, son?

25.5"

[filtercap]

From this girl I liked. Lost the girl, got the Musicmaster. Best possible outcome.



I've since upgraded to one of those string-thru reissue bridges, which wrox.

[Ty]

Is your humbucker engraved?

[bamonte]

From this girl I liked. Lost the girl, got the Musicmaster. Best possible outcome.



I've since upgraded to one of those string-thru reissue bridges, which wrox.

Woah, nice musicmaster filtercap.

[filtercap]

Is your humbucker engraved?

Engraved or stamped, I'm not sure which. The pickup is an Ibanez Super 80 from a 70's or 80's Ibanez hollow-body. They had this hand-with-butterfly-wings logo.



I think the other pickup was intended to be a high-output Telecaster bridge pickup. Fat pole pieces with a ceramic magnet underneath. It doesn't fit in a standard Strat-sized pickguard hole.

[Pacafeliz]

hmm interesting thread...

i guess it must've been around '94 in the pawn shop in san josé (costa rica) where i bought more stuff later on (70s super twin reverb, 70s SG Std., boss tremolo, and more). it was a worn to death (ancient egg-yellow refin) '66 Fender MusicMaster II, for like $50 or so. there were real HOLES from the wear in the neck, and it was barely playable, but it looked cool and it got teh kurtdz somehow.
back then $50 was A LOT of $$$ (still is... *sigh*).

i got the guitar refinished by a car painter, and the candy apple red looked cool. the pickup died soon after and i put some weird texan pickup in there. VanZandt or something.
it always played and sounded like shit, and it always did those terrible feedbacks, but i liked it cuz it sounded kinda like Hole's "Pretty on the Inside" record (which was my fav at the time - and STILL is a great one!).

finally it became just a wall-hanger 100%. i eventually parted it out and sold it on ebay some years ago (one of my first int'l sales).
now, i kinda regret it. but there was too much wrong with it.

WOW i didn't even remember that guitar!



Pat.

[Pacafeliz]

oh i found this old pic!

[Sublimedo]

Paca, that has to be my favorite picture ever!

[sewkid]

I got my (18.5 inch) Short scale Stratocaster at a Motorcycle shop. They had just taken it in on trade for a Harley seat. It looked like something I had never seen before. That was in 1995. The Squire mini wasn't introduced till around 2000. It is a made in Japan Stratocaster, and came with a Fender gig bag that fits it like a glove. It was so unique that I jumped on the $500.00 price tag before anyone else grabbed it.

[bassintom]

I bought my '69 mustang w/OHSC back in '76 for $125.00.It had one og pup and a vintage WR.And it was beat to shit then,I beat it up even more.Then refinned it back when I joined SS.

[serfx]

i picked up my `65 stang from the guitarist in Desiderata
for about $600 in the fall of `06

i claimed that i never needed to buy another guitar in my life..
i've since added two more mustangs, a duo sonic, and a jagmaster, to my short scale collection.

plus a myriad of other random guitars and basses

[endsjustifymeans]

Picked up a 92 Reissue Fender Duo-Sonic in early 2002 off of FleaBay for $75, before people figured out how awesome they are.

Frank's been with me ever since... he's grown a bit though. From 22.5" to 24".

He remains my only shortscale (so far), but my most played guitar. I imagine he'll always be my primary until there's nothing left of'm.

[paul_]

I bought both my shortscales at the last possible minute for the golden age of CIJs around here, Jag-Stang was $425 from Guitar Showcase in Campbell, CA in about November 1998. I got the last one and they never got any more in. Then the next month I bought my Jaguar for around $700 out of an AMS catalogue, and the catalogue that came the following month had no Japanese Fenders in it except a couple vintage reissue strats/teles and some "clearance" Jag-Stangs (at regular price).

I remember in 1995 or something like that I saw my first sunburst Jaguar, during one of the many times my brother dragged me to GC before I played, and thought to myself that if I played guitar I'd buy one of those, because it was clearly the fanciest looking. Look at all tha chrome, a Harley Davidson can bite it's dust.