New Guitar Day: I've Certainly Got a Type

peccary

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My JM Jazzmaster showed up this afternoon while we were out walking with the kiddo. I got the chance to play with it a bit today and it's a lot of fun. Tomorrow I'll be able to spend more time to take it out and use some pedals with it (I was just using a headphone amp today).

I just wanted to share a couple of photos. Ever show up to the party wearing almost the same thing as someone else? Scandalous.

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I'm in love with the finish on the back of this neck. It also feels nice and chunky, just my type. I can't bear to look at the nut, though. That nearly see through white plastic is just not right.
 
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I love the JMJM neck, it’s so nice. Good score man! I just picked up a player plus Tele and it had the same kinda thing going on, nice wide nut for my dumb monster hands.
 
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Nothing, yet. I've just been using a headphone amp tonight. I lent out my box-o-pedals to a friend before I bought this, so I'm actually pretty limited right now except for an Arrows, B3K, and the HAARP and Underminer I just finished.
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Ah I see. When I saw that it was posted “yesterday at 11:10PM” I was thinking like 25 hours ago, not 1 hour ago.
 
Very nice. :cool:

The answer to your “help me decide on a guitar thread” now seems very obvious. They look like they’re supposed to be played by the same person.
 
I see a double neck JazzLord Bazooka / Six-Gun...oh wrong glasses..awesome, you managed to separate them!
The bridge cover came off as well I see.
That is a killer combo sir!
 
I like that Sweetwater lets you look at multiple instruments and choose the one you want. It's not the same as playing it by any means, but it's nice that you aren't just getting whatever the dude in the back grabs.

I picked this one because it had the most contrast in the neck grain. I love that vintage tint as well.

I don't know how I like an electric guitar to be setup, really, since I have so little experience with them, but whatever they did at Sweetwater isn't half bad. The intonation is fairly close (I'll fix that today), the action seems to be in a nice kind of medium range, no buzzing or loose bits. I expected the tuners on this thing to be sloppy junk but they feel pretty solid. Cheap guitars have really come a long way in the past couple of decades.

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Cheap guitars have really come a long way in the past couple of decades.
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Yeah, you can say that again. It’s to the point now that I have no idea why I’d ever spend more than $500 or so on a new guitar.

I have read that Mascis pushed fender to leave the neck completely unfinished but the folks at Fender wouldn’t, so that finish was the compromise.
 
Oh wow! I’m jealous, I’ve been wanting one of those for a while now. I bought the Opal limited edition one instead.
 
Matmosphere said:
Yeah, you can say that again. It’s to the point now that I have no idea why I’d ever spend more than $500 or so on a new guitar.

I have read that Mascis pushed fender to leave the neck completely unfinished but the folks at Fender wouldn’t, so that finish was the compromise.
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Right? Spend $500 and then do a few upgrades over time and end up with exactly what you want likely for much less money. I'll probably upgrade the pickups on this (@thewintersoldier singing the praises of Boot Strap Pickups got me thinking it may happen sooner than later) and maybe a tailpiece just because I think a big flat piece of metal like that needs some kind of design or something on it to keep it from being so boring looking.
 
thewintersoldier said:
The mad is signature model pickups aren't real jazzmaster pickups but a P90 in a jazzmaster cover. If you want to try a set of real jazzmaster pickups I have a set up fender pure vintage 65 jazzmaster pickups I had in another guitar. As for the tailpiece I have an avri talipiece with the staytrem arm and collet so the arm stays in place and is smooth. The perks of building one from scratch 😉
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I've hardly used the trem so far. Today I played for a few hours and forgot to put it on at all.

I'll let you know about the pickups, thanks. I want to get to know these a little bit first. I really like the neck pickup a lot, it sounds pretty beefy. I spent a lot of time with that pickup today.
 
thewintersoldier said:
Teles are a gateway drug into fenders. Next thing you know your shopping for a strat. I started on fenders and went to Gibson exclusively for years and liked the idea of them but kept making them try to sound like a fender lol gave up on that and 11 years ago got a strat and tele again.
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I would love to test drive one but I haven’t come across a lefty I was able to sit down with yet.... should have learned to play right handed.
 
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