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Not that bad looking compared to others I've seen.
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Yeah I guess the brige on this is much better than on most servicemen I've seen.

But,I have heard that the necks on those don't have a trussrod.

someone put a TOM on it.

I wonder why you only see serviceman jags. and not for example, STRATS.

I've been wondering that myself.

Does it have a trust rod?

they knew they wanted something cool. if you were in some foreign region where EVERYTHING (poon incl.) was hella cheaper but almost-kinda-just-as-good-except-it's-hit-or-miss....

would your first thought be - A FUCKIN STRAT!!!!11

?

mage wrote:someone put a TOM on it.

I did this to my serviceman. Works pretty well.

I still think Servicemen guitars are dumb. Sure buy one for the romance of 'Nam and all that blood, but don't try and make it into a player.

Mine is actually a really great player. With the all mahogany body+neck and pup/parts mods, it does sound significantly better than most of my CIJ stuff.

I would say that exactly because of the different pickups and bridge hardware, that such a comparison would be invalid.

It's amazing they went to all the trouble to duplicate every detail and then failed on the tuners. It's an impressive feat. Someone should catalog them. Props to dude for even listing them as Servicemen, but his photo tool was slow and very suck.

Can you imagine two Filipino guys driving around in a Dodge Dart, selling guitars out of the trunk?

DGNR8 wrote:It's amazing they went to all the trouble to duplicate every detail and then failed on the tuners. It's an impressive feat. Someone should catalog them. Props to dude for even listing them as Servicemen, but his photo tool was slow and very suck.

Can you imagine two Filipino guys driving around in a Dodge Dart, selling guitars out of the trunk?

NoHoLOLZ

the most they have is a steel rod, but honestly out of the three that i had, all the necks were ace on them.
the white one had a slit warp, but leveling the frets did wonders for it.
the blue one was the best player, and looked the coolest.
the sunburst one, that was awsome becuz of the spalted maple neck.
where is that thing these days anyway?

Sublimedo wrote:

mage wrote:someone put a TOM on it.

I did this to my serviceman. Works pretty well.

still want

mage wrote:I wonder why you only see serviceman jags. and not for example, STRATS.

There's a serviceman strat in my local shop. I posted about it because some of it's features were very similar to a Serviceman Jag that made rounds around some forum members (think RobOG owned it and Sub has it now [edit- oh shit he's just posted it]), it had a black stripe painted in the middle of the pickguard edge bevel to simulated a 3-ply guard, the pickups were non-height adjustable but had screws there anyway, the middle pickup was fake, it had a bridge that was really like a mustang bridge in it's construction/basic principles but with a square plate... global vol and tone and a gibbo-style 3-way toggle, fingerboard binding, matching stock, 60's style spaghetti logo, burgandy mist. It looked nice, played horribly.

I keep meaning to take a picture of it and forgetting, I'm not sure if it's even there anymore.

was it like this one?

I actually kind of dig that bridge on that service man strat. And don't know why.

u luv mustangs duhlolz