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

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 £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 £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

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.

iblastoff wrote:swapping that pickguard for tortoise though.

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

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

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

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

not for moi.

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

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

For reals.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

it looks to be a november launch then?

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

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

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/