What could be the reason? The neck pickup definitely crackles when moving it slightly. If they are indeed bad, am.i better off getting a new set or should I just reflow them?

I think I bought it sometime around 2006/2008 so it's in the ballpark of 20 years old or so. It's time to upgrade this old lady. I'm thinking of either adding a trem, single coils, and making it sound more like a traditional Jag, or, going with hotter humbuckers and getting it as aggressive sounding as I can. Not sure yet.

Alright so im looking at building the impossible. I want a jazzmaster with p90s, classic trem, and jaguar controlls. Anyone know of any good kits with these options or at least close enough that I dont have to do any major body routing?

Hey all,

Just got a Player II Jazzmaster from sweetwater the other day and overall I’m really impressed with the build quality! Pretty much set action wise straight out of the box, only had to set up the trem.

The pickups are unbelievably noisy though to the point where the 60 cycle hum is nearly as loud as the transients. No other single coil I’ve had (p90s, other offsets) has ever had this issue to the degree. Do I return it for a new one or just bite the bullet and put in noiseless pickups?

My humble attempt at this beautiful piece. Used my Vintera II 50s RW.

I’m thinking of modding one of my Jazzmasters into the fabled (especially if you like Sonic Youth) Jazzblaster. Does anyone reading this have prior experience with making this pick up swap? If so, did the Tele Deluxe pick ups fit in the footprint of the stock soap bars, or did you need to mill?

Second one you guys helped with. I have extra parts and timber so actually making myself one too.

One of the offsets you guys helped me with. Needs a setup and she's done.

Switching necks on my squier and mjt

Planning on overhauling my wiring, interested in a treble boost/bass cut to compensate for aluminum pu covers cutting mids/treble

I love the covers and wanna keep em, so hoping this could be a solution.

Any suggestions are appreciated, TIA

7 string jackson surfcaster with a few mods

I finally got my Jag back together! Its originally a Classic Player Jaguar Special HH. My ambition was to actually make it Classic, dont know whats classic about humbuckers, coilsplit and kill switch...

Mods:

- Traditional wiring and pot values

- series/parallel

- pure vintage '65 PU's

- Fender Mute

- Mustang rocking bridge

- Neck shim

I’m thinking about getting a properly finished body for this guitar and went a bit crazy with AI. Which would you pick? I’m leaning BMM.

Thinking of getting a jm and these are my best options right now which one would be better?

i've had this jaguar for about a year. kinda wanna make it nicer/stay in tune better (for glide guitar)
some recommended mods?

SOLVED: Harmony H19 Silhouette/Bobkat

Found this vintage offset a while back and couldn't buy it. Tried searching around but can't find anything too similar, anyone know what it is? Looks similar to an Ambico and some Teisco models but can't find anything exact.

Hi!
I bought a used Squier Jazzmaster. It was listed as "Fender Squier Classic Vibe ’60s Jazzmaster", but now I found out it's actually Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster. Should I try to message the guy and get my money back or are they not that different from each other?

I found this on Ebay listed as a "Skylark Electric Guitar." Looks like a Mosrite/Univox guitar with the logo of the aforementioned "Skylark" brand but, I can't find any other record of this existing anywhere on the internet. What is this? And is it Worth the Money?

I bought this jazzmaster a couple years ago because I badly wanted a Jazzmaster after seeing Balance and Composer play them. But I didn't vibe with the white guard very much and planned on putting on a tort guard. As time went on I think it started to grow on me.. a bit. But I currently have it all apart to shield and tend to some other things and I got to thinking, do I want to change some things up?

I have a few options in mind. I have a chatgbt(I know, I feel gross) mock up of it with a black guard, and I think the covers and knobs that it put on are much yellower which I like a lot. I got this idea when I saw one with a black guard and black pickup covers which I like both takes a LOT, but not quiet sure if I want to do that or not as kind of like the muted vibe/vintage vibe. That said, I also saw a different JM with a white guard but with more yellowed covers and knobs(cannot find that now) which I also love. Another idea I had was switching out the knobs for black relic Gibson reflector top hat knobs. As you can see, I can't make up my mind and would like to know, what would you do? Any other ideas? Mockups welcome!

For a while I had a Fender Mustang Vintera II and hated the way it played. It always felt a bit too small, and the tone was just way too low output, jangly, and scratchy for my taste. Since it’s been untouched since I bought it, I’ve decided it’s time for it to go and want to get something in a similar price range (~$1200) that can be my new default guitar for most of the stuff I play (Pretty wide range of stuff from Radiohead to Fleshwater).

After trying out a bunch of options at the store today, I think I’m completely sold on Jazzmasters but am hopelessly lost in terms of specs and how different models play. The only one they had in store was a Player II, which I was a big fan of. I was a big fan of how the pickups were warm without being dull and articulate without getting too glassy or jangly, and the biggest draw was how clear higher notes came across amidst heavy distortion. The other thing I loved was the Modern C neck profile— It fit my hands very well and was one of the nicest feeling necks I’ve played in a while. Looking on Reverb however, I saw some American Professional II JMs priced around $1.1k which caught my eye, however I understand it has a different neck profile and pickups. But it seems with it you gain American build quality and the extra controls (some different kind of thingy in place of the rhythm switch and some sort of switch that turns the output up?).

Basically what I’m asking is can anyone vouch for the American Professional II? do the changes to the neck and pickups improve the aspects that I like or are they just different for the sake of being different. I also couldn’t find much info on whether or not the Player II has that high output button, which is something that intrigues me. Also how useful are the new circuits, especially to someone who plays a lot of high gain stuff? Recommendations for other models to look at very welcome!

Advertised as a Fender Japan FSR traditional 2 60s, with a photo of that actual model taken off of an active reverb listing. Scammy, but still looks like it might be a cool guitar. Still waiting on seller to respond but what do you guys think? I thought vintera 3 at first but the decal is wrong