I bought a used one and the neck felt great and the pickups sounded great. I did upgrade the pots, wiring, locking tuner, Halon bridge and Fender tremolo. Just hate hearing string squeaks when using trem bar.
Nice review and demo. Just got one myself. Excellent for the money. So the pickups are actually not standard jazzmaster pickups, but p90s in a jazzmaster pickup housing (which is why you see the screw tops instead of alnico rods). But many consider the p90s better than JM pickups, unless you want a really sparky surfy type of sound. Jazzmasters are also bright because of 1 meg pots instead of 500k or 250k like strats. Apparently the p90s are a good match for these pots. Anyway, mine is great out of the box. I’ll be doing a full setup including leveling and dressing frets, but it really doesn’t need much. The only mod I’m making is to swap the bridge with the Descendant AOM compatible bridge, which is a drop in replacement for the AOM on the JMJM. This is just because I’m picky about matching the radius of the fretboard perfectly (default is 12” radius bridge for a 9.5” radius neck). And the descendant bridge allows to individual action height per string, allowing me to make the treble strings lower than the bass strings.
Good demo. I love my JM JM. I use her for surf- lots of reverb! I don't use the rhythm circuit. I have the volume and tone rolled off, and use it as a kill switch.
Love my JMJM! I did put a small .25 shim in the neck which helped with the high bridge. The jumbo frets took a little getting used to but the sustain is pretty impressive.
Heads-up: this guitar does NOT fit into a standard Fender guitar gig bag. But it does fit in a short-scale bass gig bag nicely!
gorgeous guitar
Even on high-end Jazzmasters, the trem arm just pops in.
Yeah, I figured it was a standard JM thing… just wasn't aware of it before now!
I like that short-scale 6 string piccolo bass! (I was referring to the j mascis, not the VI, but both are cool)
I think that is how I will refer to the guitar from now on.
J Mascis is one of my favourite guitarists of all time guy's great!
I bought a used one and the neck felt great and the pickups sounded great. I did upgrade the pots, wiring, locking tuner, Halon bridge and Fender tremolo. Just hate hearing string squeaks when using trem bar.
Nice review and demo. Just got one myself. Excellent for the money. So the pickups are actually not standard jazzmaster pickups, but p90s in a jazzmaster pickup housing (which is why you see the screw tops instead of alnico rods). But many consider the p90s better than JM pickups, unless you want a really sparky surfy type of sound. Jazzmasters are also bright because of 1 meg pots instead of 500k or 250k like strats. Apparently the p90s are a good match for these pots.
Anyway, mine is great out of the box. I’ll be doing a full setup including leveling and dressing frets, but it really doesn’t need much. The only mod I’m making is to swap the bridge with the Descendant AOM compatible bridge, which is a drop in replacement for the AOM on the JMJM. This is just because I’m picky about matching the radius of the fretboard perfectly (default is 12” radius bridge for a 9.5” radius neck). And the descendant bridge allows to individual action height per string, allowing me to make the treble strings lower than the bass strings.
Very sweet dog - don't like gold either but it seems to work on this jazzmaster which I also got & it's a great instrument.
Good demo. I love my JM JM. I use her for surf- lots of reverb! I don't use the rhythm circuit. I have the volume and tone rolled off, and use it as a kill switch.
Love my JMJM! I did put a small .25 shim in the neck which helped with the high bridge. The jumbo frets took a little getting used to but the sustain is pretty impressive.
I thought you want a high bridge? Am I just misunderstanding you here?