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Post subject: how to buy Jaguar/Jazzmaster strings?
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:31 am
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A package of Fender Stainless Flats 11-50 with a plain .020 D string came in the case candy of my 62 RI Jaguar. I compared these strings with another quality brand of flats and I like them, but all I can find for sale have a wound .022 D string, not the plain .020. What's up with that? I know I can always buy the extra string, but why the extra pain in the asss?

The only Fender flats I can find for sale are these:

http://www.fender.com/products//search. ... 0730050002


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Post subject: Re: how to buy Jaguar/Jazzmaster strings?
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:11 am
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JimmyTheSaint wrote:
A package of Fender Stainless Flats 11-50 with a plain .020 D string came in the case candy of my 62 RI Jaguar.


A plain .020 is typically a "heavy" G string. What was the gauge of the G string you received? I've never heard of a plain D string being used by anyone.


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Post subject: Re: how to buy Jaguar/Jazzmaster strings?
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:49 pm
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Guitarist1983 wrote:
JimmyTheSaint wrote:
A package of Fender Stainless Flats 11-50 with a plain .020 D string came in the case candy of my 62 RI Jaguar.


A plain .020 is typically a "heavy" G string. What was the gauge of the G string you received? I've never heard of a plain D string being used by anyone.


Right, I meant G string. The Fender flats available for purchase have wound .022 G strings, but the set included in my case candy had a plain .020 G string.


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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:43 pm
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I guess if you like flatwound strings, and you want a plain G string, you're stuck with buying a dozen from Musician's Friend for 3 bucks.
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/ ... sku=120468.

If you aren't absolutely sold on flatwound strings..a mellow set of semi-flattened round-wounds might do the trick for you. (I use these in .010 gauge)

http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/ ... sku=100508

What style of music do you play on your new jag?


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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:46 am
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Guitarist1983 wrote:
I guess if you like flatwound strings, and you want a plain G string, you're stuck with buying a dozen from Musician's Friend for 3 bucks.
http://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/ ... sku=120468.

What style of music do you play on your new jag?


That link to a G string at MF is broken. Yeah, I can buy plain .020's and I suppose the brand won't matter as much as with a wound string.

I got the Jaguar to be primarily a jazz guitar (love that break angle), but which also has passable distortion sounds. Archtops' ergonomics give me tendinitis problems. They're also limited with high gain due to the lack of a bridge pickup and feedback. I find the Jaguar's vintage bridge pickup to be awful with distortion when using roundwounds. As everyone says, it's brittle.

I find the Jag's body shape and scale length very ergonomic. My Jag weighs 9.5 pounds. I only play sitting down, but shaving a pound off that would be nice. Wonderful tremolo action. I put a heavy rubber washer on the end of the tremolo arm collet so that the arm stays put wherever I position it.

As far as ergonomic solid body jazz goes, though, I just got a Parker Fly Bronze, and I must say I'm blown away. I think the Jag is going to have to be liquidated. Too bad, because that would be swapping a very cool vibe for a nerd guitar, but that Fly Bronze is just too impressive. And I despise having to remove the Jag's neck just to tweak the truss rod. Why oh why does Fender only put headstock truss rod access on the American Strats?


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IIRC the Jazzmaster and Jaguars were designed for wound G strings. Very few plain G strings were available in the early 60's.


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Post subject: Re: how to buy Jaguar/Jazzmaster strings?
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:15 pm
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'Thinking like Art; back in the time when the Jazzmaster and Jaguar were designed and introduced, jazz guitars used .014s and .013s with a wound 3rd always. .012 was "light" back then.

That said, 'personally use .011s on Jazzmaster and Jaguar (flat and round, respectively) always with wound Gs.


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