Faux Jazzmaster -> Jagomatic/Gretschmaster

The Dead Ranch Hands · Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:56 pm

I recently picked up a cheap Jazzmaster knockoff, the J&D Junglemaster. Pretty good guitar for $210. But, I thought I'd add some Jaguar hardware and some Filtertrons to spruce it up. Here it is:

I'm pretty happy with this one. The Filtertrons sound good, although I'm used to single coils and I find myself using brighter amp settings now to compensate.

I really like the sound in the bridge position - twangy and bright and present but not shrill. Second favorite is both pickups on together. The neck pickup alone is quite jazzy. I've got flatwounds on it right now, which I'm sure contributes to that. I want to try this with roundwounds in the near future.

I've also got a Jaguar mute base on order, which I figure will cover up that white space around the bridge that would normally be covered with pickguard.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:00 pm

I love hackjobs. looks awesome.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:09 pm

can you buy these things new? looks like fun. pics before you mismatched it?

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:27 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:can you buy these things new? looks like fun. pics before you mismatched it?

http://www.fretcity.com/shop/cart.php?t ... gory_id=70

The Dead Ranch Hands · Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:57 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:can you buy these things new? looks like fun. pics before you mismatched it?

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:24 pm

thanks to both of you.

those heastocks are odd... swinger headstock meets sg body...

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:27 pm

They're really good guitars !! like really good... I was impressed.

Justyn · Post by **Justyn** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:12 am

Looking at that reminds of what this old surf rock guy with sunglasses did to his classic Player HH jag.

Yeesh

BoringPostcards · Post by **BoringPostcards** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 11:31 am

I love it. Did you post this on OSG too? If so, I missed it. I also love hackjobs. It looks awesome.

astro · Post by **astro** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:45 pm

Holy crap, these things are only $225 Canadian dollars... and they come with a real pivoting Jazzmaster bridge... now I'm going to have to buy one!

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 1:50 pm

You should have used a Mustang lower control plate, it would fit better.

tomin8r · Post by **tomin8r** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:49 pm

astro wrote:Holy crap, these things are only $225 Canadian dollars... and they come with a real pivoting Jazzmaster bridge... now I'm going to have to buy one!

I agree totally, it's not often you find a good quality guitar like that for that price. It seems to get something for that kind of deal, you would have to buy it through the States, but this looks perfect. The headstock is my only gripe with it, although the neck can be swapped out.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:51 pm

i really want a couple of them, fun guitars to mess with for modding/alt tunings.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:04 pm

finboy wrote: for modding/alt tunings.

This is the electric guitar equivalent of telling your friends you should all go see Spice World "just to make fun of it, y'know."

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:22 pm

Hahahaha I was thinking something like that what I read it.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 7:57 pm

There was a guy who used to post here and proclaim any crappy/cheap guitars that were posted as "good for nothing but an encore guitar," the term encore guitar denoting that it will be purposely smashed at the end of a concert, as with Cobain's In Utero tour MIJ standard strats, used for the audicence-expected end-of-show equipment destruction.

This brought up more peculiar implications than even I'm aware of after deeply contemplating such a statement: He hates the guitars, but would use one, but only if he knows he can smash it as soon as he's played one song on it so that he would look cool, maybe those in the audience know what a cheap guitar it is, would he wear his trenchcoat at the time?? ...agh, my brains.

astro · Post by **astro** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:14 pm

I would fuck this guitar as though it were a spice girl:

$225!?!?! I WANT!

I wish Squier would get a clue and start offering more traditional jag/jazzy guitars in addition to the Jagmaster.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:59 pm

paul_ wrote:
finboy wrote: for modding/alt tunings.
This is the electric guitar equivalent of telling your friends you should all go see Spice World "just to make fun of it, y'know."

it's wrong to buy guitars for modifying now?

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:18 pm

No, it's wrong to buy guitars so you can emulate the touring rig of a professional musician from the comfort of your bedroom. I'm not accusing you of doing so, nor am I trying to offend you (honestly buddy) but the wording of your post reminded me of one of those aforementioned situations.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:28 pm

Hey you bastard, I was replying to your post and you changed it so my reply doesn't work anymore.

Anyway I basically split 50/50 between a tuning close to open C and standard. I have multiple guitars and it makes sense to me to have one that stays in that tuning. For it to feel decent I need to put on heavier strings and adjust the intonation so why not have a guitar that's setup nicely for that tuning since I use it as much as I do any other tuning?

I wouldn't buy a guitar just to keep it in an alt tuning but I would keep a guitar in an alternate tuning all the time.