i got the jazzmaster body!!!
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woohoo. more debt here i come.
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What Color? and what P/U's are you going with.
http://warmoth.com/thrift/wgp_body_detail.asp?itemNumber=jmp25
i'm going to use chrome hardware and black pickups.
i'm going to put either 3 single coil P90s in it or stacked P90s in the neck and bridge and a single coil P90 in the middle.
i still have to decide on the neck. likely going to be a maple with an ebony fretboard. it'll be a strat neck with (hopefully) a reversed headstock.
once i see the actual grain and colour i'll know for sure.
I'm with paco on this about the money. And if it makes you happy why not. You'll have to post the finished product ok.
this guitar was totally unplanned but it's too cool a body to pass up. i'm patient enough to wait until i have the cash to finish it.
Look to the PRS McCarty and Reverend models to see how the wiring is done on the 3 P-90 set.
You will get near perfect Townsendesque tones from that guitar.
However if you plan on getting a case and neck whatever, keep in mind the Jazzmaster scale length is longer than normal if you do indeed go with a jazzmaster neck.
This thing with an ebony fretboard would rock, skunk stripe and tung oil finish on the back of the neck(I assume you'll be going with rock or birdseye maple?), damn, you may have to market it.
You should finish it out with a custom truss rod cover with your name or some cool slogan.
Tremolo or no tremolo?
Damn paco that would be an extremely sweet guitar if alky does this. Maybe instead of a band, you two should open up a gear shop. Of course then I don't get to play with ya'll, there's always jam sessions.
-the body's already routed for a wilkinson tremolo so that's what it'll be. i'll block it though.
-right now, neck would just be normal maple with an ebony board. no face dots. just ebony. we'll see how much money i have at the time i order the neck and i might upgrade the maple.
-i'll check out PRS wiring. i need ideas. right now i have in my head:
2 stacked P90s (B & N)
1 single coil P90 (M)
3-way switch (B/B&N/N)
concentric pots for tone/volume on bridge and neck (like a les paul)
1 on/off switch for middle pickup (like a 3PU les paul)
1 on/off switch to kill entire guitar (ala jonny greenwood)
i'll need to drill an extra hole for the second kill switch.
I just remember searching for cases that would fit the Jazzmaster, I though the scale length was longer but i stand corrected. I thought fender standard was 24"
It's the longer body that makes the cases hard to find not the neck.
Lindy Fralin's website has some great info on these P/U's.
It'll be cool to build it yourself, if you need parts All Parts.com and Carvin. com should have most of what you need you can worry about the neck much later..
Pickguard?
i'll probably have to get the nut cut professionally and then get the whole thing set-up professionally once i'm done. my friend's got a soldering iron so i'm set there.
no pickguard. body is rear routed so there's no need.
standard fender scale is 25.5" now. mustang/jaguar scale is 24"
the PRS wiring has given me some ideas for possibly using a 5-way switch and tapping coils.
This is really cool I'm sure eventually you will be really happy with it.
i could save a bundle and just put the strat neck i have on it but it's in rough shape. plus i like it on my tele right now. however, it might get me to a functioning guitar quicker.
but i've worked out an item by item budget and i'll go from there. it certainly won't be a cheap guitar but i'm guessing to custom order something like this would be double if not triple the cost of doing it this way.
i really want the separate tone/vol on the neck and bridge. that ability to blend is my favourite part of my les paul.
I like it too but for as much as I max them out I have wanted to experiment with something active but for monitary reasons I haven't yet.
I just read a review of the Diezel VH-4 amplifier today and I heard one played the other day. It's like hearing the Ferrari of guitar amps.
It's an orgasm in a box and for the low low price of $4600 I'm sure I'll have one soon, Yeah Right!
I'm not going to critique you for selling the Blue Angel It's just one of those decisions you made at the time, the Deluxe is a classic in itself.
everytime I play my orange I wish for a little more clean output and I long for a hand wired fender but anymore volume and I would be killing people in the Apartment complex so o well.
Now I just want a new Strat so I can make sweet sweet love with it.
well, i don't really. but if i was in a band, i would.
for now, i have my pod.
I need a clean amp. well not really the Orange has a nice glassy clean british tone but I want more headroom before overdrive.
A guy in a local bar here plays one with Ruby tubes and a V 30. He runs a Guv'nor over drive that really adds body to the sound and that's what the Blues JR lacks, tight intelligable bass response. His amp really smokes once it's warmed up.
granted its only 400 bucks but I can tell where my extra 500 bucks went when I put it next to my Orange.
i'll just trade you my microvibe for your orange.
A DSL 40 would match up well with your deluxe.
Also if you are lucky you may find a hiwatt DC-40 bulldog for around the same price as the DSL.
I've seen a few on Ebay go for 550 which is a steal on that thing.
A rivera chubster 40 is in the same kind of market, fender clean, marshall overdrive but it may be a little over what you want to spend.
maybe i'll move my studio into the basement.