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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:38 pm
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[/quote] I have a push/pull pot my '79 Strat to activate the neck and bridge pickups. It's a very Blind Faith Clapton-like sound. [/quote]


This is how this one is set up as well although I'm considering replacing it with a standard pot and wiring. I just got done replacing all the wiring with pushback cloth wire, orange drop cap, new pots, new 5 way switch, Switchcraft jack, and copper foil along with a new 8 hole pick guard. Someone along the way had used an 11 hole pickguard so it was time to return to an original style version.

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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:57 pm
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More JV Strat pictures, 1997 model it appears.

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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:06 pm
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Nice. I used to have a 97 also. Here's a pic.

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I don't have it anymore, but I have a Tex-Mex strat, which is similar.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 1:30 pm
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Nice. I used to have a 97 also. Here's a pic.

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I don't have it anymore, but I have a Tex-Mex strat, which is similar.


Very nice! I also found an original pickguard with the decals still on it but I decided to put it away and install another one that's a standard 8 hole. I really like the feel of the neck on the JV too, just feels right!


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:24 pm
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BrittB wrote:
I have a push/pull pot my '79 Strat to activate the neck and bridge pickups. It's a very Blind Faith Clapton-like sound. [/quote]


This is how this one is set up as well although I'm considering replacing it with a standard pot and wiring. I just got done replacing all the wiring with pushback cloth wire, orange drop cap, new pots, new 5 way switch, Switchcraft jack, and copper foil along with a new 8 hole pick guard. Someone along the way had used an 11 hole pickguard so it was time to return to an original style version.

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I saw that you had a quote about a '79 Strat with a push/pull pot that allows you to use the bridge and neck pup. Was that quoted from me? I have a Strat with the same configeration, and I often tell people that it gives me that, "EC/Blind Faith" sound.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:13 am
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Interesting how these guitars wind up getting 'modded.' The feature with the stock Vaughn is in the wiring for the bridge pup. Once you start changing out the innards you've got an MIM V-neck Strat with an autograph. The playability of your guitar may then simply be a reflection of how that particular neck and body were hand finished in the assembly process. In this case, and most fortunately, if you love your guitar, you can keep your guitar. :wink: 8)

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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:31 am
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BrittB wrote:
I have a push/pull pot my '79 Strat to activate the neck and bridge pickups. It's a very Blind Faith Clapton-like sound.



This is how this one is set up as well although I'm considering replacing it with a standard pot and wiring. I just got done replacing all the wiring with pushback cloth wire, orange drop cap, new pots, new 5 way switch, Switchcraft jack, and copper foil along with a new 8 hole pick guard. Someone along the way had used an 11 hole pickguard so it was time to return to an original style version.

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I saw that you had a quote about a '79 Strat with a push/pull pot that allows you to use the bridge and neck pup. Was that quoted from me? I have a Strat with the same configeration, and I often tell people that it gives me that, "EC/Blind Faith" sound.[/quote]

Yes, it was your quote but it got botched up in the rewrite of my post.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:41 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
Interesting how these guitars wind up getting 'modded.' The feature with the stock Vaughn is in the wiring for the bridge pup. Once you start changing out the innards you've got an MIM V-neck Strat with an autograph. The playability of your guitar may then simply be a reflection of how that particular neck and body were hand finished in the assembly process. In this case, and most fortunately, if you love your guitar, you can keep your guitar. :wink: 8)


This one had already been modded when I got it but the job wasn't the best so I used their setup. I'm looking around for the original wiring schematics so I can take it back to the way it originally was. I'll save the push pull pot for another project.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:43 am
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I've been thinking of rewiring an SSS strat this way: simply swap the positions of the neck and middle pickups' hot leads at the selector switch.

That would give me the neck+bridge combo in position 2 (at the cost of losing the bridge+middle combo). I 'd have to get used to the neck pickup in position 3, however, as that's my favorite.

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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:04 am
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I'm looking around for the original wiring schematics so I can take it back to the way it originally was.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:07 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
Interesting how these guitars wind up getting 'modded.' The feature with the stock Vaughn is in the wiring for the bridge pup. Once you start changing out the innards you've got an MIM V-neck Strat with an autograph. The playability of your guitar may then simply be a reflection of how that particular neck and body were hand finished in the assembly process. In this case, and most fortunately, if you love your guitar, you can keep your guitar. :wink: 8)


There's more to the Jimmie Vaughan than just the wiring. It has the AVRI all-steel 2 7/32" bridge.

Some of its unique features have become less unique over time. When it was introduced it was one of the few MIMs with medium jumbo frets, but now lots of MIM's have those. Originally it was the only MIM with a V neck and head-adjust truss rod -- there may be some others now. The tuners were better quality vintage-style Gotohs like the AVRI's, not vintage-style Pings like the MIM Classics. Back in its first decade, the wiring was one of the least significant special features.

The JV's uniqueness may have become diluted with the improvements/changes to other MIM models, but it still offers a set of features that aren't all available in any other single MIM model. And the AVRI bridge is a big difference -- the MIM Classics/Deluxes have 2 7/32" bridges but they have zinc blocks and cheaper saddles, and other MIM's have narrow metric bridges (with zinc blocks and cheaper saddles).

I'm curious about new JV's now that the AVRI's have been upgraded. I wonder if they're getting the new saddles stamped "Pat Pend" or if they're still making the old AVRI "Fender Fender" saddles.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:37 am
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The Tex-Mex strats that came out before the JV strat has the same bridge and tuners as the JV strat, it also had medium Jumbo frets, but it's not a V neck.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:02 am
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JasonSD wrote:
The Tex-Mex strats that came out before the JV strat has the same bridge and tuners as the JV strat, it also had medium Jumbo frets, but it's not a V neck.


Yes, the Tex-Mex was the predecessor to the JV -- they discontinued that model, changed the neck profile, added a signature decal, and turned it into the Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Signature.

So one MIM that was unlike other MIMs turned into a slightly different MIM that was unlike other MIMs. For a long time, the JV was a very distinctive MIM. Some of its then-unique features have now spread to other MIM models, but other than the original Tex-Mex (which went out of production when the JV replaced it), it's the only MIM with an all-steel, US made, AVRI bridge.

My point was that the wiring isn't the only thing that makes the JV different than other MIMs. Even though many of its features have spread to other MIMs, you still can't get all the other features besides the wiring together on any MIM.


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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:12 am
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....... it's the only MIM with an all-steel, US made, AVRI bridge....

If you're citing this as a plus for you it's something which is not specifically listed in the current bridge specs for the guitar. Let's hope it still remains true yet not touted.

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Post subject: Re: Jimmie Vaughn Strat
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:21 am
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Well, all I can say for sure is I like playing it. I've had many other Strats and this is the second Strat that I truly enjoy, my other being a hard tail parts caster with a CIJ 62 rosewood neck, the Dick Dale autograph is cool too! I like other Strats and the one that is still on my bucket list is the recent 54 MIJ reissue. That being said, this JV makes me happy and that's really all that matter! ;-)

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