r/Jazzmaster

This is my “Custom Shop killer”. My favourite guitar in the whole wide world. It’s gotten a few mods and upgrades over the years:

- Bone nut
- Hand-aged vintage style tortoiseshell pickguard
- Seymour Duncan Antiquity II pickups
- Staytrem (7.25” version)
- Full rewiring with cloth wire
- AVRI vibrato unit
- D’Addario NYXL strings
- “Eyeglass” case

I know many of you don’t appreciate relic’d guitars, and that’s ok. I do like them a lot and this one has given me almost a decade of joy and excitement no other model could.

Don’t like the pickups in my squier cv

Was thinking of buying a new guitar with humbuckers and possibly selling my jm but decided to maybe just get a new pickguard build with something like these in and swap in or out depending on what I want to play

I have a boss katana gen 3 and want to play Sam fender/oasis/eagles kinda stuff

Or if I was to do something else,I could buy a Harley Benton for the same money ish

Hi,

I have a new guitar, probably around 3/4 weeks old. Its not my first or only Jazzmaster, but this is the first time I've encountered an issue like this.

So, the trem arm has probably been popped in and out around 3 times until the other night: to mess with it for two seconds post-unboxing, and then putting it in properly the first time, which was an in-out-in job.

Then for some reason two nights ago I took it out, I honestly don't even know why. I noticed that it didn't click back in, but thought nothing of it. Then when I was playing last night I noticed that it was much looser than usual, swining around like mad, and that there was buzzing coming from it.

I was going to change strings anyway, so I took off the cavity. The washer that holds it in had come loose, and the arm sank while I was doing so; but it also looks like maybe the arm no longer fits properly in the collet -- I can't get it to "click" in, and it will fall out if I move the arm.

Does anybody have any experience with this, or any ideas how to go about fixing it?

I don't really have the option of taking to someone for repair at the moment.

Pictures and video: https://imgur.com/a/KEdgOFc

UPDATE: I ordered the Olympic white.

They both look amazing and I can’t decide. Olympic white is classy, timeless, and maybe a little boring. Tahitian coral is eye catching but I worry the novelty might wear off sooner than later.

OH MY GOD ITS THE BEST!!!

Very pleasant experience start to finish. I placed my order April 23rd and she arrived may 8th! I couldn’t pass up the opportunity this time around when fender was offering all available upgrades for free

I found this band in middle school when I was looking through my mom’s collection of ripped cds lmao. They’ve stuck out to me ever since. Very catchy songs. Can’t believe I found a backing track to this even if it is their popular song!

I’m sure many will be opposed to this mod but for anyone who wants to lock their tremolo in place, I figured this out and the result is lock solid. The best part is it’s invisible and you can change it back anytime you’d like.

I basically bolted the pivoting part of the tremolo to the plate that is mounted to the body of the guitar. I used washers and spacers so the two are parallel to each other.

I've been saving for my first Fender (and also first jazzmaster) guitar, and I've looked up to the Vintera III mid 60's Jazzmaster in color blue, does any one have some thoughts on it? The pros and cons of it, considering I am planning this guitar to be my first jazzmaster & Fender is it a good choice?

It looks really beautiful but I'm concerned it may not be the best choice out there 💔.

Will be reading any comments about it!

40th anniversary Squier jazzmaster. I recently switched out the neck with a player II neck which has an extra fret (but that shouldn’t matter right?) and now the saddles are almost maxed out to get proper intonation. Bridge is centered and straight up. Seems weird. Might have to take out the spring on the low E to get it right on. Anyone have an idea?

Edit: this has been solved. Here’s my reply to someone who said to shim neck to raise bridge.
Yeah I think this is the issue. Not sure why I didn’t put this together. The neck doesn’t NEED to be shimmed because it’s set up perfect as it is besides the saddles being a bit far back BUT when I switched necks I noticed the new one sits lower in the pocket so I had to do a full adjustment of the bridge height (and pickups) so yeah the bridge is now lower which is making the string just a bit shorter. SOLVED. thanks to everyone who chimed in.

This is my Classic Player Special. I put on a Staytrem, made the tremolo hardtail, locking tuners and a SD JB in the bridge as well as a lot of control deletes.

Finally almost complete, a Jazzmaster for F# standard and Drop E.

Everything is finally just so…all my instruments can be ran simultaneously into my pedalboard into my DAW for silent recording,or i can mic the cab and run a line out of the super crush when volume is applicable.

Came with the MIJ trem and all. Just replaced the anodized pickguard with a tort.
Upgraded pots to one meg, and went switchcraft on the selector and input. Next I’m dropping in a Wilkinson’s roller bridge, and for a whopping $50 of upgrades, I have the best guitar I’ve ever played. My Gibson and Jackson MIJ DKMG haven’t been touched

I can’t believe how good squier did on this model. It’s reevaluated how I look at getting new instruments.

When I saw this available on the Fender website, I had to buy it. My Squier FSR Classic Vibe 70’s Jazzmaster. The lake placid blue is just stunning