NGD - Vista Jagmaster w/ Demo

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:59 am

What a pleasure to play this thing is. One of my favorite necks ever.

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Look at that, me playing a stock guitar. Now that's a rare sight. This thing is light, too! Only 7 lb 8.6 oz.

mixtape · Post by **mixtape** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:22 am

Sounds great and looks like a joy to play. If it were mine I'd leave the pickguard stock, but that's a matter of taste. What pickups are you thinking of putting in there?

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:28 am

I have a set of Dragonfire Screamers in double creme. They're quite hot pickups, but that's what I like in humbuckers. I will definitely have coil splitting going on. The particular set of pickups I'm going to put in have been slightly modded so that the outer coils are properly RWRP and the inner coils as well, so I can have cool inside-out Stratty tones with a 3-way switch.

mixtape · Post by **mixtape** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:35 am

You definitely steered me right when you recommended the Screamers for my Super-Sonic, so I'm not surprised you're going with those.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:40 am

Did they work for you? Yay! Yeah, I find them to be quite versatile, despite the literature that makes you think they're SHRED pickups. I opened them up and they're built by Artec, too (same as GFS, etc.), so it's of pretty good build quality. I had them in my old 25.5" scale Silver Sparkle Jagmaster, but obviously this one is a cooler axe.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:52 am

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:54 am

Haha. Good thing Susanna Hoffs is still smoking hot.

mixtape · Post by **mixtape** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:00 am

honeyiscool wrote:Did they work for you? Yay! Yeah, I find them to be quite versatile, despite the literature that makes you think they're SHRED pickups. I opened them up and they're built by Artec, too (same as GFS, etc.), so it's of pretty good build quality. I had them in my old 25.5" scale Silver Sparkle Jagmaster, but obviously this one is a cooler axe.

Yeah, I was a little afraid the bridge pup was going to be hotter than I could handle, but I get some really great harmonics out of it and if I dial it back a little, the neck one cools it off just fine. Plus the coil taps add a ton of versatility, and my tech couldn't believe I found $25 pickups. So thanks again for the tip.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:38 am

honeyiscool wrote:I had them in my old 25.5" scale Silver Sparkle Jagmaster,

I wanted that guitar

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:18 am

Sounds great. Nice playing as well. Reminds me of my old 25.5" CAR Jagmaster I had. I dropped Lindy Fralin JM pups and a white custom guard on it. I still get youtube comments on it. The posts on my strat bridge were messed up and really soured my on strat bridges.

Those are nice necks. I had a first gen Squier Vista jagmaster neck at one time and now I wish I had not sold it.

I would love to have a go on a Vista, though I would rather have a Super-sonic over a Jagmaster.

Nice guitar and great demo.

jims357 · Post by **jims357** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:58 am

sounds great. what's an average price to go after for a vista jagmaster?

jims357 · Post by **jims357** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:00 am

sounds great. what's an average price to go after for a vista jagmaster?

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:33 pm

jims357 wrote:sounds great. what's an average price to go after for a vista jagmaster?

Average? I dunno, I see them listed for $450-550 on eBay all the time, I don't know if they sell at them prices, though.

p.s. I like this one enough that I'm selling my KC on eBay. I'd list it here but I need money more than good vibes right now.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:57 pm

honeyiscool wrote:
jims357 wrote:sounds great. what's an average price to go after for a vista jagmaster?
Average? I dunno, I see them listed for $450-550 on eBay all the time, I don't know if they sell at them prices, though.

p.s. I like this one enough that I'm selling my KC on eBay. I'd list it here but I need money more than good vibes right now.

Why sell the kc mustang?

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:08 pm

I have a one-in one-out policy and I want a white Les Paul.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:18 pm

I wish I could swap out that KC Mustang neck and put it on my CAR Competition Mustang. I just really liked the profile on the KC Mustang neck when I played them in the store.

I understand the One-In, One-out policy. There are only so many guitars one can play.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:22 pm

honeyiscool wrote:I have a one-in one-out policy and I want a white Les Paul.

I dont understand why buy a guitar totally mod it and say its a great guitar and after 2 months sell it because you buyed a squier.

mkt3000 · Post by **mkt3000** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:24 pm

weeping_moon wrote:
honeyiscool wrote:I have a one-in one-out policy and I want a white Les Paul.
I dont understand why buy a guitar totally mod it and say its a great guitar and after 2 months sell it because you buyed a squier.

Vista Series Squiers are no longer made, fairly hard to find, fairly valuable, quite collectible, and better guitars than what one would think. They're Japanese Fenders with "Squier" on the headstock.

George · Post by **George** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:35 pm

All the KC's I've played have been shit to be honest. Good move.

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:47 pm

She's lovely. I'd personally swap the neck pickup for a humbucker-sized P-90 or do some coil splitting if I kept a humbucker in there, but I'd be too scared of drilling holes in the guard. That's just me though. It sounds great as it is.

I never knew these things even existed...chances of finding one of those in the UK? Ehhh....

EDIT: I recognised the riff you play at 9:40 but it's driving me nuts because I can't remember where it's from!