backwardsvoyager wrote:but they wanted $20,000
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woah. thats a nice car.
oh yeah, the squier j mascis is crazy nice. i'm with you, i like a neck i can get ahold of, but i want to swap the pups for a set of gibson p90s....why? just cus I have a set lying around. i dig dino jr. and the tones he gets are godly, but that didn't really have much influence on the purchase. it DID have a huge influence on buying the made in japan j mascis sig purple sparkley one
But the thing is he recorded like 90% of the records with a telecaster, and gibson's with p90s for the rhythm parts, and a princeton reverb amp(i think, its a low watt fender blackface(i think, might be silverface(wait what?
I just haven't gotten around to doing it. That guitar is sooo nice.
favorites? out of those the pre cbs 64. its a great player nice and worn in, and its one of those guitars that once I pick it up I don't want to put it down. also because of the pups. the 65 avri model is one very fine instrument. very fine. but the pups are off from my 64's. could just be the age of the magnets, perhaps they are a little weaker now after 50 years...but there are other more discernible differences than how hot they are. i know that fender is trying to be as authentic as possible with the avri line, down to the case candy, so perhaps the 65 avri is what my 64 sounded like fresh off the line? regardless a set of vintage 65 pups are coming my way. I've bought replacement pups from the usual suspects custom winders and they are still off, they are all still WAY nicer than the stock pups in most of my other jazzy's i've swapped pups in and i'm happy with the results as I don't want all of my guitars sounding the same
OR
the lee ranaldo w/curtis novak wrhb's. this is just a beast. it handles everything i throw at it, and those pups just EXPLODE with fuzz. i love it cause i like stacking pedals and some pups start to get diffuse around the edges and then the center and then its soup.....and chances are its going to turn into soup anyways and that might even be the point
but it just takes it all in stride. and that finish is so beautiful, the neck is so comfortable. great guitar.
really i like them all pretty equally for different reasons.
...with basswood body, jumbo frets, a gibson type bridge, and i'm pretty sure the neck is chunkier than usual. these are all positive's in my mind.
) but yeah, I figured a pickup change would be necessary down the line.
