How are those VM Short Scales?

[hazelwould]

How are the pups? Setup? Quality? Stay in tune?

I'm mainly looking at the Jaquar and Jazzmaster.

[skullservant]

I had the Jazzmaster for a few months and only sold it to get another more expensive guitar.
I really miss it though. The pickups were pretty great (always feel like the bridge pickup could be higher output but that's just me and Jazzmasters)
It stayed in tune really well, and the quality was nice and sturdy. I converted mine to a Baritone which was awesome
I would definitely buy another

[foomanfat]

The Jaguar is really nice, aside from the pots. I also put a Mastery on it, so not much experience with the stock bridge.

[skullservant]

Ah yeah I guess I should mention I went from the stock bridge, to a Mustang, to finally a Mastery

[univalve]

The squier jmascis is incredible good. We have a separate thread somewhere...
And i think someone from the shsrk tank posted a Long review with pics about The squier jazzmasters when they were new. And dark Axel has one

[theavondon]

I do love my VM jazzmaster, but I sure do hate the bridge. I also have one of those double hum jags, and it plays dreamy.

[DarkAxel]

Heeeeyyy



yeah, I've got a Jazzmaster, tried a Jag and the Mascis. to me it's like this

the Mascis is more of a "ready to rock" instrument out of the box (hypothetically), it might be more "plug and play", but it just doesn't feel right to me (mainly because of the bridge)
The VMs are more of an "empty canvas" and "great base for anything you can imagine" type guitars.

MY jazzmaster has new bridge saddles and zero fret (went for Graphtechs) and a bridge pickup rewound to SD Antiquity spec. To me, those are pretty much the weakest points. Of course a Mastery would be the way to go, but i'm not paying half of the guitars value for a new bridge, i'm doing pretty good as is

Mind you - the VMs are closer to the original than most modern fenders due to the tremolo placement!

It will probably take a little patience and modding spirit, but after that, the guitars are rad as hell. I love my Jazzmaster to bits, it makes me want to play guitar all the time, it makes me inspired. It makes me hate every other guitar, because NONE of them sounds and feels right to me anymore. It makes me write songs. It makes me grow as a musician and as a player. Sure it's not the easiest guitar to play, it's not a shredder's guitar... it's a guitar that takes some attitude and effort, but if you have these, you can take that relatively cheap guitar and make shitloads of amazing music with it