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Slowy wrote:Fantastic job Grant but morally, I have to call you on the sticker. I trust it would never leave your hands with that on there.

Fender have probably never made a Jazzmaster that good.
If it only said 'Jizzmaster' he'd have "past participle of get" away with it, darn!
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Slowy wrote:Fantastic job Grant but morally, I have to call you on the sticker. I trust it would never leave your hands with that on there.

Fender have probably never made a Jazzmaster that good.
If it only said 'Jizzmaster' he'd have "past participle of get" away with it, darn!
oops, hoisted on my own petard :rofl:
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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Seriously nice guitar! Great use of the tone circuit too, no one ever uses it so great to do something actually practical with it.

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Definitely up for comparing mine. It has AVRI 65 pickups in it. I've modded the rhythm circuit in mine to include both pickups instead of neck pup only and it's great. I use it all the time like that. The rhythm circuit is a hugely wasted opportunity IMO- quick switch for a completely different sound seems like a great idea to me. Although I'm tempted to redo mine like this but with master tone and master bass cut as the tone controls for added versatilities.

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That looks amazing. I'd play it.

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It's gorgeous. The only way it could be better is if it had this colour scheme: https://youtu.be/99ksFeq0fwI?t=46s

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Cool as. Interesting bridge - very well engineered and looks stainless...

Are the pickup poles following the fretboard radius?
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Great work Grant!! That looks awesome!

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jvpp wrote:Cool as. Interesting bridge - very well engineered and looks stainless...

Are the pickup poles following the fretboard radius?
It's a Mastery Bridge. Strummers has one on his Jag and I have one on my Jazzmaster. Awesome, highly engineered bit of kit.

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Tasty as!
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Slowy wrote:Actually, It might be a great match. I reckon Grant bears more than a passing resemblance to Nels Cline.
The resemblance stops at being able to bend a JM up a note or more as per Nels...sheesh, these are a handful to dig into due to the long string length.

Thanks for the kind words all. It was fun to build something from "new" bits.
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Goodness me!
Great work Grant. Looks superb.
How are you enjoying the hotter pups and relatively low value pots (compared to the traditional peel your face off 1meg JM situation.)
I found on my old Jap JM that anything under 1 meg with SD quarter pounders got too muddy.
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Very nice Grant, really like the body and pick guard colour contrast. Is that pop rivets in the pick guard?
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HI Grant,

The guitar looks great! You've solved the two issues for me that bug me about the Jazzmaster. The wiring schematic, and the bridge. Adrian changed the wiring on my Jazzmaster and it made a very notceable difference.

Well done!!!
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AiRdAd wrote:HI Grant,

The guitar looks great! You've solved the two issues for me that bug me about the Jazzmaster. The wiring schematic, and the bridge. Adrian changed the wiring on my Jazzmaster and it made a very notceable difference.

Well done!!!
What did he change it to?

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