OK shortscalers I'm looking for some inspiration here. As soon as I source the Jaguar control plate I'm going to finally get back to altering my Vista Jagmaster. I know I'm putting in an upper circuit like the Jag/Jazz but I've not come up with anything pickup wise.
Any and all suggestions welcome from uber humbuckers to single coils. The only thing I know I'm not gonna use are lipstick pups.
I'm also considering making it a hard tail if I can find a bridge/plate that I like that'll also cover the trem route. If I can find one I'll probably stick one of those trem blocks in there.
hotrodperlmutter wrote:i would fill the trem route with one of those blocks, and put a hardtail strat bridge on it. or just block the stock trem.
if it's really a vista, i'd leave it alone. can't believe you'd want to butcher such a nice guitar. go buy a pos chinese one and mod it.
That's the thing it's a good quality guitar so I'd rather mod it and get some use out of it. Due to the Jag HH this hasn't been used in ages. The reason I've kept it this long is the neck on it. I just want to get it to a place where I'll get a kick out of playing it again. Besides most of the work would just be on the surface. I'm not sure how essentiam blocking out the trem route will be. I'll have to look into that.
I'm thinking Mustang bridge/plate would do a better job of covering up the old bridge position. Extra chrome is yummy too.
Thomas wrote:That's the thing it's a good quality guitar so I'd rather mod it and get some use out of it. Due to the Jag HH this hasn't been used in ages. The reason I've kept it this long is the neck on it. I just want to get it to a place where I'll get a kick out of playing it again. Besides most of the work would just be on the surface. I'm not sure how essentiam blocking out the trem route will be. I'll have to look into that.
I'm thinking Mustang bridge/plate would do a better job of covering up the old bridge position. Extra chrome is yummy too.
but why are you wanting to change the bridge? are you having tuning issues? problems with the look of it? i just think removing the stock trem for placement of a mustang trem, is kinda silly. the strat trem, when set up properly, should have no real issues. i have a vista jag, and i have no problems with it staying in tune because i have 5 springs on the trem. but first you wanted to put a tele bridge on it, which you know is fixed.
As for the Strat style trem, I just don't like it. It stays in tune fine, it's set up etc there's not any issue with the guitar apart from the fact that I just have a hankering for a change. I could buy/make a body for it and use the neck off it but what's the point in that? It's not like I could sell the body to go towards the new one, they're not worth much. By modding what I've already got I know it's quality, it fits together perfectly and I don't need to paint it. Lots of time and money saved.
It was a cheap guitar too so I'm not overly precious about it.
Fran wrote:Floyd Rose! That Tele bridge is gay. You may want to consider fitting jumbo frets and scalloping the fretboard as well... it worked for me.
lol
but actually I do think a floyd rose on a jagmaster would be really cool. I really like the idea of a floyd rose on classic body shapes. but you can only get them on all these damn pointy guitars.
