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Brings back memories, got one of these new for £149 (or something daft like that) back in the day from Coda music on my first alone trip to London. I traded it for a decent classical guitar stupidly. The neck felt superb !!! as well as everything else actually....

Is this your daughter ?

SS makes SJM look normal.

Awesome. That's pretty darned happy.
Sparkles are important.
I bought my first SS, the blue one, new at a Boxing Day sale in 1998 for $299 CDN. The second I bought new for $399. I've paid more than that for for the other three in their used conditions.

That reverse makes sense, all the frets are available. There's some pricey Fender, some one show it, where the reversed lower bout blocks all the highest frets. Not that I need the access myself, it just looks wrong.

I guess you're more optimistic than I am. That reverse screams neck dive city to me.

they're weighted pretty good. at least, i didn't experience any neck dive with pens' gutted one.

yet another thing i wouldn't bang with gaybear's dick. (well, penpen or his SS)

I've had Super Sonics for thirteen years, five of them now, and the only time a had a neck dive issue is when I tried the strap pin on the upper bout instead of on the neckplate (where it is when the guitar is stock). For some reason, the neck doesn't dive if the strap pin is a bit lower.



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GOD DAMMIT GET THAT UGLY STRAT JACK OUT OF THIS THRAD

hotrodperlmutter wrote:GOD DAMMIT GET THAT UGLY STRAT JACK OUT OF THIS THRAD

I put it on the back to hide it. Don't tell anybody.

SO is this your daughter or you ?

hotrodperlmutter wrote:GOD DAMMIT GET THAT UGLY STRAT JACK OUT OF THIS THRAD

+1. Disgustong

singlepickup24 wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:GOD DAMMIT GET THAT UGLY STRAT JACK OUT OF THIS THRAD

+1. Disgustong

i hate strap jacks, but this is absolutely the best use of a strat jack i've ever seen.

I find it funny that the three strat jack haters that have replied in this thread have all made spelling mistakes.
I find strat jacks to be efficient and functional. I have one on my Stratocaster of course, one on my Squier Jaguar, and the one above. Functional little thingees.
Is it just a conservative, conviction to classic design? Merely subjective? What exactly is the source of the animosity? Aesthetic?
And again, the one on the SS is hidden on the back. Lead goes over the strap and directly into the jack. Efficient. Functional.
And perhaps, ugly.

I dislike Strat jacks because I think they're inefficient. They take up a lot of space and interfere with whammy bars just enough to piss me off without holding it up like a straight jack does. Also, they can't easily be repurposed once the body has them. A standard face jack, you can use as an extra pot and relocate the jack elsewhere and it's no worse for the transformation. Try doing that with a Strat jack.

honeyiscool wrote:I dislike Strat jacks because I think they're inefficient. They take up a lot of space and interfere with whammy bars just enough to piss me off without holding it up like a straight jack does. Also, they can't easily be repurposed once the body has them. A standard face jack, you can use as an extra pot and relocate the jack elsewhere and it's no worse for the transformation. Try doing that with a Strat jack.

That is seriously the best answer I've ever got on a guitar forum. Well done. All good points. Thank you.

When I first saw the Squier Jaguar, I was mad at the strat jack. Finally, a 24" scale Fiesta Red hardtailed guitar with two humbuckers. Like a dream Squier. But the jack. I bought it anyway, planning to change a few things, but now I like it stock. Even the strat jack, because it works. Hardtail, so I guess that helps.

For the coral SS, I had seen someone put a strat jack on a blue SS in a picture online, and it just seemed so smart.

Sloan wrote:

singlepickup24 wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:GOD DAMMIT GET THAT UGLY STRAT JACK OUT OF THIS THRAD

+1. Disgustong

i hate strap jacks, but this is absolutely the best use of a strat jack i've ever seen.

+2

wadeaminute wrote:I've had Super Sonics for thirteen years, five of them now, and the only time a had a neck dive issue is when I tried the strap pin on the upper bout instead of on the neckplate (where it is when the guitar is stock). For some reason, the neck doesn't dive if the strap pin is a bit lower.



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That's a great strat jack. Like all strat jacks, it's like an intra-venous drip - in this case, it's hidden - maybe a....crack jack....does crack get smacked, jacked or what? Anyway, it looks very good.

I had my other four SSs outfitted with tele (football) jacks. If I had it to over again, I'd put strat jacks on the back of all of them. It is so much easier to locate the jack with the lead while you are wearing the guitar.

I routed the hole out for that one with a Dremel tool. Quite a mess And I was afraid that I was missing / it wasn't lining up with the tele control plate route. But it worked.

And to get this back on track - it started as a stock silver sparkle one.

I hate strat jacks because the nut on the input always comes loose on every single strat I've ever played and it's always a pain in the ass to tighten it back up. You can't do it with your fingers, and you have to have the right socket wrench and tool to actually get it tightened back up enough.