I'm really short(scale)

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:38 pm

After a period of skulking around on the board and looking for information as I tried to decide which guitar to buy, I ended up going for a CP Jaguar HH. Having only played Telecasters prior to this, the sounds coming from my (admittedly poor) playing on this thing are fairly eye opening. Many thanks for having all of this nonsense up on the web for people to peruse. I can't really come up with anything else of importance to say, so that should about do it for my first post.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:41 pm

Welcome

post pics of your guitar.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:48 pm

Thom wrote:Welcome post pics of your guitar.

nice to see you have had an epiphany moment with the old shortscale

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:00 pm

Actually, I ended up going to short scale route on the advice of my guitar teacher. I injured (of all things) my pinky last year after hitting it on a basketball rim, and it's really limited my range of motion with that finger. The short scale gives me some relief both from the long reaches and from the tiredness I would get while playing.

That part was something I was hoping for, but the improvement of my tone and the sound qualities and possibilities have really impressed me.

The shots:

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:07 pm

that is the best color for that guitar it looks good

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:10 pm

brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good

Ain't that right.

I like that CP Jag, even though I normally don't like 9 pound guitars.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:13 pm

brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good

+1

Jeffrey · Post by **Jeffrey** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:14 pm

I'm really happy to have found it. I saw it on craigslist and thought it might have been less than nicely handled, but when I got there, the scratches all over the pickguard were due to the fact that they hadn't removed the protective sheet. Apparently the guy bought it, thought he would learn to play, and only used it a handful of times. It's really mint, aside from the missing tremolo arm. I ordered a $11 replacement and I should be good to go.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:30 pm

what a beaut.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:32 pm

Thom wrote:
brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good
+1

+1

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:38 pm

damienblair17 wrote:
Thom wrote:
brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good
+1
+1

+2.

Welcome to the forum. Looks like a double win for you on this purchase

louis · Post by **louis** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:03 pm

Jeffrey wrote:

That thing is the sex.

gypsyseven · Post by **gypsyseven** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:17 pm

Jeffrey wrote:It's really mint, aside from the missing tremolo arm. I ordered a $11 replacement and I should be good to go.

Congrats man, a really really nice guitar you got. Hope you know that the CP Jaguars have tremolos where you have to screw the arms in. Not like a regular jag/jazzmaster tremolo where you plug in the trem arm....

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:29 pm

I really like the look of this hh jag. i just want to play one of these...

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 2:36 pm

brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good

This.

I was pining for that guitar for so long, but eventually discovered I am more of a traditional Jaguar guy.

Welcome to the boards.

gypsyseven · Post by **gypsyseven** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:26 pm

taylornutt wrote:
brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good
This.

I was pining for that guitar for so long, but eventually discovered I am more of a traditional Jaguar guy.

Welcome to the boards.

Yeah, absolutely.I mean i played the white one with the humbuckers and really really liked the options you got with this model, but i wanted a more traditional Jaguar and got the CP Jaguar in 3TS with regular(hot) Jaguar pickups...but anyway, a stunning looking guitar...

cur · Post by **cur** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:42 pm

Jeffrey wrote:Actually, I ended up going to short scale route on the advice of my guitar teacher. I injured (of all things) my pinky last year after hitting it on a basketball rim, and it's really limited my range of motion with that finger. The short scale gives me some relief both from the long reaches and from the tiredness I would get while playing.

That part was something I was hoping for, but the improvement of my tone and the sound qualities and possibilities have really impressed me.

NIce guitar. I had surgery on my pinky finger of my fret fretting hand last year. I had gone 6 months of buddy taping it to my ring finger (per Dr orders) but I would cheat and play guitar anyway. At first any bit of pinky extension would about floor me, but it got better to the point where I could play. But in the end they had to go in and fix it all up.

Welcome aboard.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:54 pm

gypsyseven wrote:
taylornutt wrote:
brainfur wrote:that is the best color for that guitar it looks good
This.

I was pining for that guitar for so long, but eventually discovered I am more of a traditional Jaguar guy.

Welcome to the boards.
Yeah, absolutely.I mean i played the white one with the humbuckers and really really liked the options you got with this model, but i wanted a more traditional Jaguar and got the CP Jaguar in 3TS with regular(hot) Jaguar pickups...but anyway, a stunning looking guitar...

this. good score though! i wish they made the CP SS jaguar in that color.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:02 pm

That guitar is sexy.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:04 pm

Pens wrote:That guitar is FUCKING sexy.