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i love the look of both guitars but the horror stories of there bridges and the tuning problems that arrise scare me away from buying one


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matt101590 wrote:
i love the look of both guitars but the horror stories of there bridges and the tuning problems that arrise scare me away from buying one


my jaguar has virtually no tuning problems. even after liberal use of the whammy, it still stays in tune.
the strings have been known to pull out of the saddles if you really pull on them. this can easily be remedied by just filing the grooves deeper. of course, my jaguar came equipped with a tune-o-matic, so that's a non-issue.

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The Jazzmaster is a strong candidate for being the most flexible and certainly under-rated guitar out there. Going into a tres'-good amp, the range of timbres, intensities, tone colours is all but infinite. Add an Exectro-Hamonix Hum-Debugger and you can really use all possibilities of that big axe.

Personally, 'use a Line 6 Vetta I HD / 412 slant and there are not many tones on earth that a Jazzmaster (American Vintage pups in a '96 MIJ) guitar can't do well.


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matt101590 wrote:
i love the look of both guitars but the horror stories of there bridges and the tuning problems that arrise scare me away from buying one


Looks like they've solved the bridge problem on the new Classic Player Jazzmaster . . . but I haven't played one yet.


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stratmansteve wrote:
matt101590 wrote:
i love the look of both guitars but the horror stories of there bridges and the tuning problems that arrise scare me away from buying one


Looks like they've solved the bridge problem on the new Classic Player Jazzmaster . . . but I haven't played one yet.


The tune-o-matic bridge on a Jazzmaster is a dumb idea. It's a band aid on the guitar. It does not follow the same radius as the original bridge and it doesn't rock back and forth with the trem system. Fender is taking the cheap way out retrofitting an original concept with a quick fix. So that people who have problems will buy the guitar. The original bridge can be played if you play the guitar instead of banging on it. It was not meant for heavy handed windmill jabs. The problem is, since the brains behind all of Fender's great guitar designs is gone, the people left behind have not the vision and dare not really mess with the original designs. Today's guitarists want to turn a Jazzmaster into something it's not. The problem is not with the instrument. More of the player. And those who think a CIJ JM just needs better pickups, are deaf. The woods of the MIA and the CIJ JM's are totally different in quality and resonance. By putting in more responsive pickups in a CIJ MIJ guitar, all you're doing is highlighting the inadequate resonances of those guitars. If you think the pickup makes the tone, it's not only the pickup but the guitar itself. CIJ pickups and pots on a CIJ guitar are designed to go with the lower quality of the guitar. There's a reason a MIA Fender costs more than a CIJ MIJ. There was a point when Fender from Japan was as good if not better than MIA but that was nipped in the bud long ago. If you play a Jazzmaster it's because you like it's tone, not the way it looks. If it doesn't respond to your playing because you expect it to be an Ibanez or a Strat, then you're not using your head. :)


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