Another Jagmaster mod thread

[serfx]

needs bronco knobs

[Mages]

nah, jaguar knobs.

[MikeG]

That must have taken some work!

I need to sell the tuners I bought. Shame that they don't fit.

[Mike]

I have some Mustang knobs I can donate to the cause if they're desired

[taylornutt]

Pickups sound great; helped by the new pots, I'm sure.

I thought I'd measured the tuner holes correctly, but I was wrong (10.5mm as opposed to 10.3mm). Besides, the screws on the Wilkinsons wouldn't line up, anyway. Oiled and tightened up the stock ones, and they seem to work well.

Bridge required two of the existing mounting holes to be filled and redrilled. No problems now. String spacing is fine.

You can buy special conversion bushings for the 10.5mm tuner holes. Lets you put normal tuners on the Squier holes. Only problem is that the tuners don't line up on the back perfectly. I used larger screws to makeup the difference.

[MikeG]

Pickups sound great; helped by the new pots, I'm sure.

I thought I'd measured the tuner holes correctly, but I was wrong (10.5mm as opposed to 10.3mm). Besides, the screws on the Wilkinsons wouldn't line up, anyway. Oiled and tightened up the stock ones, and they seem to work well.

Bridge required two of the existing mounting holes to be filled and redrilled. No problems now. String spacing is fine.

You can buy special conversion bushings for the 10.5mm tuner holes. Lets you put normal tuners on the Squier holes. Only problem is that the tuners don't line up on the back perfectly. I used larger screws to makeup the difference.

The push in bushings that I ordered were too large (a choice of those or 8mm, I think). Plus the mounting screws seem to require each tuner to share a screw with the adjoining tuner... and since the spacing was out, this wouldn't work.

Anyway, Doog's done a great setting it up for me. Major problems floating the trem though, so it's temporarily hardtailed! When pulling on the trem, it refuses to return, and needs to be pushed back flush with the body with a 'click'. Clearly not right.

[Gabriel]

Thats a pretty sweet guitar, I've got that bridge on my strat and it doesn't return to tune either. I'm going to change it to the 2 point WVP when i have the money (and stop saving for a jaguar) hopefully that'll work a bit better. I think the screws bind with the holes and stop it being brought back to its original position. Which is annoying as hell.

[MikeG]

Thats a pretty sweet guitar, I've got that bridge on my strat and it doesn't return to tune either. I'm going to change it to the 2 point WVP when i have the money (and stop saving for a jaguar) hopefully that'll work a bit better. I think the screws bind with the holes and stop it being brought back to its original position. Which is annoying as hell.

It's a fucking nightmare. Wish I'd never bothered with it, sometimes. Maybe changing screws will help.

[Bacchus]

The strat style bridge will work fine if you set it up properly. My old silver Jagmaster will not go out of tune, no matter how hard I try to make it.

Try taking out the four central screws leaving the two on the outside. I found it works a lot better that way.

[MikeG]

The strat style bridge will work fine if you set it up properly. My old silver Jagmaster will not go out of tune, no matter how hard I try to make it.

Try taking out the four central screws leaving the two on the outside. I found it works a lot better that way.

Yeah, I'm sure that's the case. Doog and I were at a loss as to what was causing the problem with this one.

Will give that a try though!

[Gabriel]

Its a really disapointing bridge I've had nothing but issues with it, I've got it set as hardtail. Quite nice playing now.

[MikeG]

I've removed the four screws in the centre, leaving it to pivot on the two outermost ones. 4 springs in the back, strung with 11s. Hope I'm not damaging anything by doing this. The trem actually works now, and isn't snagging on anything.

[Bacchus]

Sounds good. I basically argued with the trem on mine for about two years, trying to set it up, failing, and then not using it. Then I removed the four inner screws and spent a while setting it up.

You can't really do any real damage beyond stripping the thread from screws, which is unlikely. Having it set up with only two screws certainly won't do any damage. Some people worry about it being too much stress for the wood to deal with in too small an area, but this concern is undue, considering the amount of two point trems on the market that work very well (also, the fact that Fender have basically revised their tremolo to work with only two pivot points, as seen on the more recent American Fenders).

[MikeG]

Seemed fairly stable when I tried it last night! We'll see!

[Gabriel]

Try taking out the four central screws leaving the two on the outside. I found it works a lot better that way.

I might give that a go at some point, would save me a few quid if i dont have to replace the trem.

[ohyeahfuzzbear]

Although I mentioned this in another thread (tagged onto that crazy racist's Jagmaster topic)

I know this is completely unrelated but this crazy rascist guy is getting talked about quite alot recently.... where can i find his post?

[SKC Willie]

They've probably all be deleted.

[Freddy V-C]

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/search. ... oanjettfan

[ohyeahfuzzbear]

THANKYOU FREDDY THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST HILARIOUS THING EVER

[Rox]