Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster

Medicine Melancholy · Post by **Medicine Melancholy** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:38 pm

Basswood I believe is lighter weight which is preferable with large instruments like Offsets.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:39 pm

AddamInsane wrote:Having bought wood from an actual lumber yard, I have a reasonable idea of what it costs to make a guitar body. For what I pay, it costs Â£8-12 to make one, from poplar, sapelle or ash. Fender would pay a bit less for their wood. So I don't know where the Â£100 discrepancy in the prices for (seemingly) just different body woods and a few quid in cost. Personally, I wouldn't use bASSWOOD, because other woods are cheap and readily available. Maybe the 'sustainability' and ease of finishing are factors too?

I think you have a point about other factors. Different kinds of Basswood are native to countries near Asia where they make these guitars.

Why should they import a bunch of alder or poplar? There might not be a huge price difference but there is consideration of shipping around a bunch of raw material when you are on the production level.

Currently many Asian companies do import hardwoods from North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin America but if they have suitable native hardwoods to the area, that is a great thing.

An example of this is Australia. They use many hardwoods that most American guitar players have never heard of, native to that region and they are considered excellent. Maton especially are known for their acoustic guitars.

http://www.maton.com.au/main/timbers.html

iblastoff · Post by **iblastoff** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:06 pm

unless i can find a good price on a used AVRI i think i'm going to get this! swapping that pickguard for tortoise though.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:34 pm

iblastoff wrote:swapping that pickguard for tortoise though.

If you own a hammer please lodge it deep within your face.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:09 pm

Nice way to welcome someone to the forum. And in a knowledge thread. And with your great sense of aesthetics to boot.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:18 pm

That's right. I will say Â»welcomeÂ« a little nicer - without a hammer... Although i think there is nothing greater than a gold-pickguard on a jazzy...

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:50 pm

So it the apparent lack of a trem lock going to be a deal breaker here?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:55 am

not for moi.

Pacafeliz · Post by **Pacafeliz** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 5:08 am

neither here.
i'll get one of these, fer sure. from there on, we'll see what gets swapped/modded.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 5:51 am

I completely forgot that my Jazzmaster's trem even had a lock on it.

For reals.

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:37 am

Gonna get one. And do some light mods on it.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:23 am

iblastoff wrote:unless i can find a good price on a used AVRI i think i'm going to get this! swapping that pickguard for tortoise though.

I would go with this also, I do love Tortorise on Vintage White.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:46 am

Trem-lock is definitely not a deal breaker even though I love 'em. Wouldn't cost much to upgrade anyways. very happy with gold on white too.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:48 am

I think i will get one... Tremlock or not. I love gold-anodized pickguards!!!

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:53 am

To those trem lock fans. Just replace Trem ?

To me the positioning of the trem is what bothers me more, but still not something to be concerned about, it has its perks too.

johnnyseven · Post by **johnnyseven** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:00 am

Mike wrote:
iblastoff wrote:unless i can find a good price on a used AVRI i think i'm going to get this! swapping that pickguard for tortoise though.
I would go with this also, I do love Tortorise on Vintage White.

I might buy one, stick the gold pickguard on my sunburst CIJ and the tort pickguard from on the squier - assuming they fit.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:06 pm

othomas2 wrote:To those trem lock fans. Just replace Trem ?

To me the positioning of the trem is what bothers me more, but still not something to be concerned about, it has its perks too.

It depends how it's routed under the trem plate. The lock needs a little more wood routed out to accommodate the lock, but the Blacktop Jazzmaster has the proper route for the tremlock even though it doesn't come with tremlock. Hopefully they will do the same for this guitar so if you want to upgrade to a trem with the lock it will be a no brainer.

iblastoff · Post by **iblastoff** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:46 pm

it looks to be a november launch then?

"Originally Posted by Thomann
We get the new Jazzmaster presumably mid of november"

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:05 pm

i can't get the trem lock on my jag to engage, must figure out how the damn thing works...

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 8:00 pm

stewart wrote:i can't get the trem lock on my jag to engage, must figure out how the damn thing works...

http://www.webrocker.de/jaguar/cms/2007 ... lo-system/