NGD: Get OFFSET! Jazzmaster content

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CapoFirstFret

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Found an ad on Facebook that I'd been looking at. My telecaster sold and freed up a little cash so I made an offer contingent upon playing and went out to try out this Jazzmaster about an hour away. It was in a pawn shop. Turned out to be a first year (2008) Classic Player Jazzmaster with the film still on the pickguard. No original gigbag but did come with a wide Levy's strap for $550. Very good deal, but not amazing. I'm a happy camper though. First thing will be new strings and a setup (feels like the original strings from 11 years ago on here) and then look at a mastery bridge for it.

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Cool find! Jazzmasters rule. I own a Squier VM Jazzmaster, modded with a SJM-1 set, and it's surf rock galore on it. Really awesome clean sounds.

Rock on! Congrats on your NGD!
 
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Congrats!

Not sure you need a mastery bridge- they improved the stock bridge on that model- it basically has a Gibson Nashville bridge now- and they fixed the neck angle.

I've wanted one since I played an original '65- they sound awesome- and your plays even better
 
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Super Nice how are you liking the pickups, the classic player ones are a little different than many JM ones.

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FuseG4 said:
Super Nice how are you liking the pickups, the classic player ones are a little different than many JM ones.

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Yeah I was reading about that. Apparently they are closer to legit P90s than normal Jazzmaster. I'm going to get my strings on it tonight and see if I can get it setup just a touch better and see what I think of them. They've got a lot of soul in there.

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Sweet. I like low output pickups myself but a lot of people say the middle position on classic player pickups is awesome so hope you enjoy it

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I love the p90 in my lp junior. It doesn’t push my roland street cube enough for smooth legato, though. I haven’t tried putting a pedal infront of that amp yet, though
 
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CapoFirstFret said:
Found an ad on Facebook that I'd been looking at. My telecaster sold and freed up a little cash so I made an offer contingent upon playing and went out to try out this Jazzmaster about an hour away. It was in a pawn shop. Turned out to be a first year (2008) Classic Player Jazzmaster with the film still on the pickguard. No original gigbag but did come with a wide Levy's strap for $550. Very good deal, but not amazing. I'm a happy camper though. First thing will be new strings and a setup (feels like the original strings from 11 years ago on here) and then look at a mastery bridge for it.

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Beauty. What a find. I love the jazzmaster tone.

I have a Thurston Moore signature jazzy. It came stock with an aluminum pickguard, single 1M volume knob, no other electronics apart from the EPIC SD Antiquity pickups.

I modded it with a Mastery bridge. The stock bridge is crap. No sustain and fries strings if you use the tremolo.

The Mastery is available in a an American or Japanese version. Remove and check where yours is from.

My ******* former guitar tech routed my guitar to fit a US Mastery bridge when it was OEM a Japanese sized bridge. The holes are different sizes.

Thurston has been using Mastery for a long time. Why didn't Fender just have it stock?
 
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Not my bag - but the 60's funky rock/surf/jazziness of it is undeniable!

And of course, P-90 goodness!
 
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jeremy said:
looks nice man. hows the neck on it?
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A bit chunkier than I'm used to a Fender feeling but I wouldn't call it thick. Been so busy with work I haven't had a chance to get new strings on it and set it up. I'll definitely be putting it through it's paces this weekend.
 
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i like chunky so that might be right up my ally
 
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esandes said:
Thurston has been using Mastery for a long time. Why didn't Fender just have it stock?
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I'm guessing because Mastery bridges are significantly more expensive than the one they're using, and Fender is counting on most of the people who buy them not caring.
 
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dystrust said:
I'm guessing because Mastery bridges are significantly more expensive than the one they're using, and Fender is counting on most of the people who buy them not caring.
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Did you notice Fender went with bent plate saddles for the American Standard line. Previous gens of that line used to have much better.

It's a company run by accountants.
 
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Anyways, the Mastery made a typical sustainless jazzmaster much better in terms of sustain. That was the main improvement for me.
 
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I liked the stock JM bridge on the squier *because* it has less sustain. When you go for gain, sustain is fine, but clean you get a more acoustic jangly strum that is percussive and leads can have some of the metallic sounding harmonics that I don't get from my other guitars.
Also re: strat saddles... Bent steel vs block... I could not care less, I can't tell the difference and they feel about the same under my hand. I am not saying others don't have a valid reason for preference of one or the other but give me either as long as the whole guitar sounds like a strat.

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