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Check this I found on eBay! A mini Fender Jazzmaster with built in speaker!



Apparently made in Japan between '95-'96

Loads of pics on the ebay listing: LINK

How cool is that? I wonder how much they cost when they were released.

"This is good to play for ladys guitar player."

Found some more info... It's a Fender JM-Champ 10



Also seen them in black and red on google.

That looks ace.

And they did a Strat version too is seems: LANK

Finally a Jazzmaster for the shorter man..

pretty good looking. neck makes it look weird somehow, but still great.

damn, but that tort.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:pretty good looking. neck makes it look weird somehow, but still great.

It's the small body that makes the neck seem wonky.
As a result, I'm really not sure I dig these at all. I like the concept, not so much the execution.

Depending on the strength of that amp, you might be looking at SUSTAIN FOR DAYS.

I wonder if it can do teh Thurstonz?

That's so cute.

Fran wrote:I wonder if it can do teh Thurstonz?

Raspy thirst-tones?

I wish they had used dots instead of lines for the amp holes, but it's pretty sweet.

Arrived from Japan, EMS, yesterday afternoon. I put a new 9V battery in, and played it for a couple of hours last night...

The body is wood, quite heavy, considering that it looks like a Rock Star plastic thingie. The paintwork and polyester varnish are flawless. It's pretty thick (full-sized JM thickness) to allow room for the speaker magnet.

The neck is satin-varnished, CIJ decal, N serial number, nice detailing and fretwork. Gotoh tuners.

I haven't pulled it down to have a look at the circuit board.

Strattish vibrato with weird JM-styled pickup that I'm pretty sure fits nothing else in the known universe.

Although the neck has a JM headstock and decal, it's 24" scale--roughly an inch longer than a Squier mini-Strat.

Which, incidentally it feels like, neckand stringwise. Not too appealing; loosey-goosey, hard to keep in tune, just like the Squier mini. Factory strings on both these suck. I'm gonna try something stiffer.

Two sound settings--"Clean" and "Distortion". Clean sounds as crappy as you'd expect through the onboard amp and 4" speaker, but Distortion puts you into the Hendrix Eternal Feedback camp right away. It howls and screeches with the best of them, and you can find the sweet spot with the whammy bar and wail away to your heart's content. My dog hated it immediately. A good thing IMO.

It does have a 1/4" output jack on the edge; I'm gonna try it through my Dual Showman tonight. Not expecting much, but you never know...