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Well my Jagmaster has arrived ! ! A quick try after it adjusted to the room temperature and it seems like it may meet my needs but time will tell.

It does feel "short", I find my hand wanting to travel further down the neck towards the headstock. Additionally it's going to take some time to adjust to the shorter distance between the fret wires, I find myself hitting wrong notes.

The three-way switch is suspect, it doesn't feel like it achieves a "lock" in either bridge or neck positions. Feels like a jarring could cause it to center. Is this common ? Will order one from Guitar Electronics unless someone else has a suggestion.

It's just a switch. It's not a common "fault".

It can be confusing if you're not used to playing different scale lengths at first.

I really doubt you needed to allow the guitar to adjust to room temp first. I mean, you sort of have to do that with a goldfish you win at the fair. But a guitar isn't a goldfish. It's just a guitar.

NJjoanjettfan wrote:Well my Jagmaster has arrived ! ! A quick try after it adjusted to the room temperature and it seems like it may meet my needs but time will tell.

It does feel "short", I find my hand wanting to travel further down the neck towards the headstock. Additionally it's going to take some time to adjust to the shorter distance between the fret wires, I find myself hitting wrong notes.

The three-way switch is suspect, it doesn't feel like it achieves a "lock" in either bridge or neck positions. Feels like a jarring could cause it to center. Is this common ? Will order one from Guitar Electronics unless someone else has a suggestion.

Mine was like that as well. It never slid out of position, but it always felt like it was about to. Like I said, I hated the guitar as a whole. It only survived 2 weeks with me before I slapped the neck on my MIM Duo-Sonic and sold the body loaded for chump change.

it should also be noted that that neck is uncommonly tiny even for a short scale. The neck taper so thin at the nut that I'd just end up mashing strings. I like a chunkier mustang type neck.

wait, are switched like that not normal?

every guitar i've had with a three way bar the artcore had one of those switches that springs back to centre even with a light touch.

Reece wrote:wait, are switched like that not normal?

every guitar i've had with a three way bar the artcore had one of those switches that springs back to centre even with a light touch.

not at all. my gibby les paul, my m-80, my hi-flyer, everything except the jagmaster takes a well inentioned flick to change position.

I think it's just cheap switches. The switch on my brother's Dano Homodad is as sturdy as the Artcore one Reece is talking about.

i've had zero problems with the switch
mind you i rotated mine so it went front to back instead of up and down.

serfx wrote:i've had zero problems with the switch
mind you i rotated mine so it went front to back instead of up and down.

I do that too!

thought I was the only one.

i do it on every up down toggle .. otherwise i end up changing pickups when i don't want to..
i must learn to stop strumming with my arm instead of my wrist.

I did that with mine, then for the next few years I had a running argument with it about what way it pointed. Eventually we compromised and it sort of moves around the diagonal.

we're still talking about a toggle switch here, right paul?

Eh? What toggle switch?

What kind of Jagmaster are we talking about here? Pics please

taylornutt wrote:What kind of Jagmaster are we talking about here? Pics please

The racist kind.

endsjustifymeans wrote:

taylornutt wrote:What kind of Jagmaster are we talking about here? Pics please

The racist kind.

Communist China made, Racist d-bag owned.

I had the same problem with my the switch on my Jagmaster. I'd never seen that on any other guitar.

It should be said that I had a lot of love for that guitar. My first fender style guitar, first offset, first guitar that I really had fun playing. It never really sounded all that great, but I always liked that feel.