Just bought a Jazzmaster

[futuresailors]

hey sorry to bring this up after awhile...I think I'm going to switch out the bridge with a Mustang bridge. A few questions...

I'm looking on ebay and $30 seems to be the running price for one. Does that sound right?

Also, is it an easy procedure (i.e. no experience AT ALL working on guitars) to switch the bridge? Should I have a guitar tech do this?

Thanks.

Oh yeah, other than that the guitar plays and sounds great, just need to get rid of the buzzing (not on the fretboard, just at the bridge).

That's about right. I think mine was $24...

The bridge literally is just sitting in two holes, so it'll pretty much fall out once you take your strings off.

[Radiohead625]

a bit off topic, but why did fender have to mess up the best thing about the jazzmaster on the Classic Player... the string length behind the bridge... err forever will piss me off!

[Noise...]

a bit off topic, but why did fender have to mess up the best thing about the jazzmaster on the Classic Player... the string length behind the bridge... err forever will piss me off!

I've played both, and don't see what the fuss is about. A shorter string length behind the bridge lowers the break angle a bit, reduces buzz, and still lets you do behind the bridge type nonsense. The sound difference is going to be unnoticeable to most people.

[bennybanana]

a bit off topic, but why did fender have to mess up the best thing about the jazzmaster on the Classic Player... the string length behind the bridge... err forever will piss me off!

Because Fender are Fender, and they havent designed a new guitar since, what, 1982?

[Toonster]

a bit off topic, but why did fender have to mess up the best thing about the jazzmaster on the Classic Player... the string length behind the bridge... err forever will piss me off!

Because Fender are Fender, and they havent designed a new guitar since, what, 1982?

Jagstang

Katana

Performer

Toronado

Jagmaster


To name a few, there are also some super-strats, but I didn't include those.. Some of these look a lot like other Fenders of course..

[futuresailors]

God I'd do dirty things for one of these with a trem...

[tuffteef]

a bit off topic, but why did fender have to mess up the best thing about the jazzmaster on the Classic Player... the string length behind the bridge... err forever will piss me off!

I've played both, and don't see what the fuss is about. A shorter string length behind the bridge lowers the break angle a bit, reduces buzz, and still lets you do behind the bridge type nonsense. The sound difference is going to be unnoticeable to most people.

the trems less smooth
feels like your holding a stiff cock in your hand

[Toonster]

a bit off topic, but why did fender have to mess up the best thing about the jazzmaster on the Classic Player... the string length behind the bridge... err forever will piss me off!

I've played both, and don't see what the fuss is about. A shorter string length behind the bridge lowers the break angle a bit, reduces buzz, and still lets you do behind the bridge type nonsense. The sound difference is going to be unnoticeable to most people.

The scalelength behind the bridge is totally different, so the shorter the string behind the bridge, the higher the sound is resonating your string to the pick-up..

[orange buffalo]

will this work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

[futuresailors]

Sure will. You could probably save a couple bucks with an all parts version.

[DarkAxel]

does really ANYONE like Jagstangs?

it's too bad they discontinued Toronado

[Gone Fission]

does really ANYONE like Jagstangs?

I've run across them. People are weird and do weird things. Looks like a Mustang that sat on the radiator to me, though -- yech.

If I saw one for ridiculously cheap. though, I'd get it for the Mustang scale and trem since I don't have one of those. Definitely a new pickguard and straight-up Mustang/Duo pickups, though.

Oh, and the Venus is almost as ugly. I'd only hit the XII, and that's just 'cause they did the right thing on the pickups. No reason I would ever mess with the Venus six string unless it magically happened to be the best guitar ever.

[Achtane]

^yeah, that's a real bonus.

I was afraid to say it, but the Jagstang and Venus look like butt
I saw a Squier Katana in a dude's flea market store a couple months ago though someone had started refinishing it and apparently gave up. That dude also had a Gibson amp from the 60s and MIA P bass/Strat...REALLY unusual for a flea market around here.