Building Up A Jag

Pale Ale · Post by **Pale Ale** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:05 pm

There are probably a million of these threads but I can't be arsed to look.

Say I have the body, how cheap could I keep it, buying and building everything else but obviously keeping a decent quality?

Post by **Mike** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:47 pm

It will always work out more than a CIJ costs new, and a lot more than a second hand CIJ. If you're looking to keep it cheap, then a project guitar is not the way to do it. You'll have to buy all the hardware from GuitarPartsResource and it doesn't work out cheap.

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:58 pm

if you kept the wiring simple, and pups cheap, found a neck for like 100 bucks and everything else for 100 bucks then you would still have to do the work to it, so.... its kind of a better idea to get a jap jag and mod that to "decent" quility.

aen · Post by **aen** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:00 pm

I has free pickup claw. And dubious jag size pickups. Probably CIJ.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:16 pm

I has a decent MIJ neck pickup if you need it.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:17 am

I'm building a Jazzmaster from the ground up and it'll probably cost around $6-700. If you've got a finished body already then you basically build up a parts list and search around for the best prices

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:13 pm

just buy a CIJ. mod it.

oh wait, that's been said 700x.

matocaster · Post by **matocaster** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 5:54 am

Yeah my ground up Jag build was $820 but I went with all American parts and guts