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A few weeks ago I won a (used) Jim Root signature #fender #jazzmaster. Lucky me! I have only just had the time to give it a bit of a setup.

I think I’d be a bit annoyed if I’d bought this instrument from new (£1600 from Fender).

* There’s a clear mark on the fretboard at the 10th & 11th frets where it looks like the fret was to be cut (in the wrong place)
* I think the nut is cut too low on the high E string leading to first fret buzz on the open string
* Fretwork is mediocre quality - similar to my RG550, but way below my other Ibanez guitars and even my Charvel.

Fender players - is this normal QC for Fender? I’ve never had a Fender guitars before.

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Something unusual today. Not really a "creative" effort on the photo front, but I wanted to share it anyways.

I adore form & function when it's done well. The Fender Jazzmaster guitar, introduced in 1958, is a beautiful example of that. I'm not a guitar gear nut, but I am a guitarist and a lover of design, particularly of the years on and around my birth year, 1962. The space age shape of the body and pickguard, the curved vibrato arm (which is a delight to use), the "extra" rhythm circuit switches and, of course, the famous pickups (not really my thing to be honest, but the ones in mine - a Classic Player Special from 2008 - are of the non-traditional variety, more like P90s).

I can well imagine that most folk will be like "yeah, whatevs" when they see my Jazzmaster photo. It's not much of an interesting shot or subject to most. I get that. But I love this thing/object/machine. It literally makes me happy every time I pick it up to play. 🖤

#FenderJazzmaster #Jazzmaster #Guitars

🫧🌪️ New drop in the garden of noise! 🌸💿

"Velvet Blues" is another live-coded trip with my partner osc()_peterson ( @superdirtspatz ),
with visual support from @hpunq

This time, we dove into dreamy indie pop washed-out textures, hazy home-recorded chords, ambient layers, and chaotic vibes.

full song =>
youtube.com/watch?v=Pd5ECRVNcy

#livecoding #creativecoding #audiovisualart
#dreampop #breakbeat
#experimentalmusic #ambientmusic
#drums #bass #filter #jazzmaster #sunsetskygaze

// "velvet blues" @by osc_peterson x mot4i x hpunq

Combining spring vibes from blooming forests, the refreshing breeze of northern sea shores and a healthy dose of urban minimalism, osc()_peterson (@superdirtspatz), @mot4i and @hpunq teamed up in #flok for adding a few crunchy jazzmaster chords to dreamy fm clouds. Sparse visuals from the depths of lake Lerna.

Thank you @froos @ojack @mushkr

#drums #bass #filter #jazzmaster #sunsetskygaze

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Born this day in 1909 Leo Fender. Founder of Fender Musical Instruments. In 1950 the company released the Esquire, a thin body, fast neck electric that wouldn't feedback when played at volume of dance halls. Adding a second pick-up in '51 we had the Broadcaster which became the Telecaster. Still one of the most popular electric guitars for any genre.

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4/n The #guitar in the pictures above is a Squier thinline 70s style that came with #Widerange #humbuckers. I won't go into the WR pickups now except to say that those fitted on squiers and reissue fenders are not true WR pickups, and they sound like a rather boring and generic chinese humbucker, which is what they are under the unusual cover.

The WR pickups are larger than a standard humbucker - in fact they are the largest guitar pickup I am aware of.

This presents an opportunity in that it gives me more space for my own design if I make one to fit a WR space.

So here's my design adapted to fit in a WR space. I have made the bobbins wider and a little shallower which will tend to warm the pingy #fender tone a little. I have also used the extra space to accomodate using the thicker 0.071mm wire on both bridge and neck pickups as this lowers the resistance, and I assume also the output impedance and capacitance. My neck pickup in the posts above above wound with the thicker wire sounds good so I thought I'd use it for these as well.

I made the mounting frame so that it fills the gaps to avoid losing plectrums or other objects in the hole.

This pickup has not been tried yet. I have made a bridge and neck set.

I am using alnico 2 magnets for the neck and alnico 4 for the bridge as a warmer alternative to the typical alnico 5 magnets used on fender pickups.

I expect the tone is somewhere between that of a #stratocaster and a #jazzmaster.

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Up next is the guitar of mine that is probably my favorite, but don't tell the others: REY (of the #StarWars Sequel trilogy fame; she was named in December of 2015 so you do the math).

Rey is a Squier Vintage Modified #Jazzmaster and is the guitar that really began my love affair with #Fender offsets. I replaced the stock pickups with a Fender Pure Vintage '65 set and honestly it might be one of the best decisions I've ever made. This guitar does all the alt rock/indie punk stuff I could ever ask for as well as basically everything else I can throw at it. This was another impulse layaway purchase, but I don't regret a single thing. It does make me feel a bit tiny to play, but that's not always a bad thing :3 The body is just so massive compared to my other guitars, and the Fender scale length doesn't do it any favors in that department. I've thought about other upgrades, but I've always decided against them because Rey is perfect the way she is <3

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Hardware, cnt'd:
Stringjoy Signatures Bass VI Balanced Medium Gauge (24-90) Nickel Wound Guitar Strings
StewMac Black Humbucker Mounting Rings
Schaller Non-Tremelo Roller Bridge
StewMac Dome Knobs
D’Addario Planet Waves Elliptical End Pins
Electrosocket Jack Mount
Gotoh Battery Box

Finish:
Z-Poxy Finishing Resin as grain filler
SprayMax 2K Clear Gloss