grand for a serviceman

downer · Post by **downer** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:01 am

huh, is it still legal to sell a serviceman for so much money?
are they going to be so unique? there was fender maverick last month going for this price...

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:20 am

post a link!
i sold mine to dave for 200 bucks, i have seen a few go for around 500-600.00 crazy huh?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:41 am

If you think about it after a few tokes on a bong with wizards and skulls and shit on it, they are sort of historically significant in a way. Plus these dudes that hoard up heaps of jags might want one as a conversation piece.

Justin · Post by **Justin** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:24 pm

As long as it's not a POS, a vintage fake Jaguar is real enough for me.

light rail coyote · Post by **light rail coyote** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:01 am

yeah, I saw that thing on teh Bayz, I was shocked

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:33 am

post a damn link! i can't find it!
the blue on i sold to sublimo was the best one i had. hands down, that thing RAWKED!
i think he even still uses it quit a bit. the white one was... probly the next in line but the nut always bothered me on it.
the sunburst one was only crap cuz all the electronics were shot tohell.

Sublimedo · Post by **Sublimedo** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:22 am

Hell yea. i gigged with it all the time. I love that thing.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:22 pm

i almost bid on a body/guard that was on ebay about a year ago, but i think it ended while i was at work

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:05 pm

okay, i have heard the term "sevicemen" thrown around alot.

what the hell does it mean? what is a servicemen jag?

Post by **Mike** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:18 pm

Cheap knock off's purchased in Vietnam by soliders and brought back to USA.

http://www.jimshine.com/phillipino/viet ... copies.htm

Google is your friend.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:49 pm

woah.

sounds like they are terrible.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:08 pm

i thought they were from the philippines. now i'm all confused.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:18 pm

I think they can be from any Conflict Zone/Army base country.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:25 pm

i've always like the serviceman guitars. mainly because the guys who made them were hardcore diy. and they're just so interesting.
but anyone who pays more than a few hundred for one is a jerk.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:36 pm

mewithoutus wrote:woah.

sounds like they are terrible.

There's no official spec for them, so the quality really varies. I've seen things that barely look like a Jag at all, things that are pretty hard to tell from a real jag, and I've even seen servicemen strats that have jaguar-esque parts on them. I suppose they relied on servicemen having seen little black and white pictures of guitars in newsprint catalogues of the day and thusly not being able to tell the difference when they saw one of these knock-offs, but to tell you the truth, some of them look incredibly accurate. There's a 50's style strat in Guitar Showcase that looks real good, but then on the wall just on the other side of the glass from it there's a cheap burgandy mist-ish serviceman strat with a weird trem and shitty bridge, fake height adjustment screws, fake black "ply" painted in the center of the bevelled pickguard edge, etc...

You should try it if you're ever in there, it's weird.

dodgedartdave · Post by **dodgedartdave** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:43 pm

There are a lot of really interesting things about them. The frets are bars, rather then the typical barbed frets. The necks had no truss rods. The wood was mahogany bleached white. They are very interesting little guitars. Over the weekend, I'll tare mine apart and post pics.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:47 pm

paul_ wrote:
mewithoutus wrote:woah.

sounds like they are terrible.
There's no official spec for them, so the quality really varies. I've seen things that barely look like a Jag at all, things that are pretty hard to tell from a real jag, and I've even seen servicemen strats that have jaguar-esque parts on them. I suppose they relied on servicemen having seen little black and white pictures of guitars in newsprint catalogues of the day and thusly not being able to tell the difference when they saw one of these knock-offs, but to tell you the truth, some of them look incredibly accurate. There's a 50's style strat in Guitar Showcase that looks real good, but then on the wall just on the other side of the glass from it there's a cheap burgandy mist-ish serviceman strat with a weird trem and shitty bridge, fake height adjustment screws, fake black "ply" painted in the center of the bevelled pickguard edge, etc...

You should try it if you're ever in there, it's weird.

yeah thats pretty crazy. i might hop over to guitar showcase today actually.

you live in the bay area?!!?

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:03 pm

on the contrary dave, the suburst one that i had was spalted maple, and had a metal bar down the center of the neck, and i think that subs servicemen has normal frets, but yes for the most part no truss rods and bleached, or painted mohogany.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:04 pm

mewithoutus wrote:
yeah thats pretty crazy. i might hop over to guitar showcase today actually.

you live in the bay area?!!?

Yeah, my bass player is from Fremont, we went to Mid-Pen, I live in Cupertino/Saratoga near DeAnza blvd and my new recording class requires me to be down on Willow all the time at that Annex Digital (where my band recorded a demo in high school).

The servicemans and ebay knock offs were upstairs near the keyboard stuff last time I was in GS.

dodgedartdave · Post by **dodgedartdave** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:45 pm

robert(original) wrote:on the contrary dave, the suburst one that i had was spalted maple, and had a metal bar down the center of the neck, and i think that subs servicemen has normal frets, but yes for the most part no truss rods and bleached, or painted mohogany.

I'm just learning about them. The only ones I've seen are Fredo's and Mine. Fredo's has bar frets. Mine, I can't tell because of the binding....