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As said earlier in the santa thread, I got an olympic white Japanese Jazzmaster for Christmas (well, actually New Year), and it's made of pure win.
Most of you will probably hate this guitar for multiple reasons (oddly shaped body, silly bridge, made by Fender (looking at you Lee!)), but I frigging love it.. Has a very versatile sound, I can even pull out some nasty metal sound, but above all, it looks awesome.
Anyway, to those that hate them because the bridge sucks.. I can't blame you. Don't get me wrong, the bridge is fine if you don't play hard, but once you start getting into an agressive mood, it's easy to let the strings pop out of the saddles. But I'm going to fix that by getting some Mustang saddles, they only have one groove and it's pretty deep, so it won't pop out so easily. I'll probably get a Buzzstopper as well, but bridgebuzzing isn't really that much of an issue.
Another downside is the neck pickup that seems to be giving a tad too much noise (barely noticable though), but I heard that was rather common with the Japanese pickups, so I might replace them with original Jazzmaster pickups (Seymour Duncan Vintage '57)
Apart from that, it plays and sounds awesome (imo), and it's superb as long as you don't go smashing your guitar around. A massive upgrade for the crappy Jackson I had before.
Anyways, pix:
Most of you will probably hate this guitar for multiple reasons (oddly shaped body, silly bridge, made by Fender (looking at you Lee!)), but I frigging love it.. Has a very versatile sound, I can even pull out some nasty metal sound, but above all, it looks awesome.
Anyway, to those that hate them because the bridge sucks.. I can't blame you. Don't get me wrong, the bridge is fine if you don't play hard, but once you start getting into an agressive mood, it's easy to let the strings pop out of the saddles. But I'm going to fix that by getting some Mustang saddles, they only have one groove and it's pretty deep, so it won't pop out so easily. I'll probably get a Buzzstopper as well, but bridgebuzzing isn't really that much of an issue.
Another downside is the neck pickup that seems to be giving a tad too much noise (barely noticable though), but I heard that was rather common with the Japanese pickups, so I might replace them with original Jazzmaster pickups (Seymour Duncan Vintage '57)
Apart from that, it plays and sounds awesome (imo), and it's superb as long as you don't go smashing your guitar around. A massive upgrade for the crappy Jackson I had before.
Anyways, pix: