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i was building my jaguar with a 25" scale neck but i realized the error of my ways
however i now had a neck with no home, so i was trying to find a home for it.

my leftover parts that went into a stratocaster instead:

the end result:


i got bored with a stratocaster though, and my itch to build a full fledge jazzmaster began, my reasoning was since i had most of the parts lying around it would be easy and painless (i only need a mustang bridge piece, a pickguard, chicken knob, and a body)



here's a rough outline of what i want to build, i would prob be heading off to warmoth for the body and pickguard since i have everything else for the build.

for electronic wiring, it would be a straight forward swap from the strat wiring into the jazzmaster. i will use the lower toggle switch as a location to place the volume pot, (already checked the holes on my JM and it will fit fine) the five way toggle switch will be mostly for the coil switching in the humbucker. the golden age humbucker has wiring for switching over to only one coil, so essentially making it into a single coil bridge pickup.

the five way switch will work like this:
1. neck pickup (JM)
2. neck + bridge pickup (blend with humbucker)
3. bridge only (humbucker)
4. bridge humbucker blend with single coil cut (useless)
5. bridge single coil cut from humbucker

this would be a sister guitar to my other project jaguar i have kicking on here

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everything done except for the vintage tuners which is backordered and taking a shitload of time to come in from allparts.

i dig it, but the nut, the nut makes me want to cry a bit.

The nut thing on the Jazzmaster has me a bit baffled as well but I love, LOVE the reverse tux Jag.

def feelin that jag, young criminal.

an update with pics to come soon,

due to my indecisiveness, i changed some stuff up again

jazzmaster is 90% done and here's the rundown, i am going to take a stock jazzmaster pickguard and then wire in 3 way mustang pickup selectors in where the roller pots would be. (got influenced by playing a mustang at the local guitar store)
and then i'll wire in a kill switch for the on-off switching. then i scrapped the humbucker idea and went with a jazzmaster seymour duncan hot for bridge pickguard.

other than that everything will be the same, volume and two tone knobs will be installed.

update with pics when i get my camera back from girlfriend

warmoth jazzmaster poplar body (cheap is the key here)



CUSTOM that's right!




getting primed

poplar is good. that's what mustangs were made out of. nice and light too, which is good for a jazzmaster.

my photobucket albums moved around, so a lot of broken links everywhere, but this is the result of my jazzmaster project

as i said before, there are mustang switches so i can switch them out of parallel with each other. one setting has it connected directly with the volume pot, and the other is connected to the tone pots. there are actually sound differences between the setting without the tone knob and with it.

the top 2 way switch is a killswitch.

the volume pot is a 1meg and the two tone knobs are 250ks.

the neck pickup is one that i like a lot, from a MIM classic player jazzmaster. the bridge is a hot for jazzmaster bridge from seymour duncan.








wrong decal and i switched back to the floyd rose nut.

god damn, that looks fucking rad. i dig that red ass tortish stuff.

nice save!

I love the name TANGMASTER.

POONCASTER.

Nothing wrong with that

theshadowofseattle wrote:I love the name TANGMASTER.

POONCASTER.

i just realized that name might have other connotations as well... custom decal time eh?

hotrodperlmutter wrote:god damn, that looks fucking rad. i dig that red ass tortish stuff.

nice save!

thanks man, its the red sparkle from warmoth, and its a stock one i got. i kind of eyed it for the measurement for the mustang switches and it fit very well.

cool, very original. seems like it might be a bad place for a kill switch though. I lowered my rhythm switch cause I kept hitting it.