Jazzblasters

[horseblanket]

Blasphemy? Fantastic? What do you think? Which humbuckers are you using? Why? Very curious.

[horseblanket]

I'll match this resounding silence with a resolve to just do it.
Buying pieces now to match the EGC neck I impulse ordered.
Haven't had humbuckers in a guitar since I was a kid.

[gnomethrone]

Ha. Just follow your heart. I play a blacktop jazzmaster with a humbucker bridge and jm neck pickup. A PAF sounded really nice in the bridge but I finally settled on an old dimarzio super distortion cause palm mutes.

[horseblanket]

That's pretty solid advice. I am going to blindly leap into this because I am mature.

[zeravla]

I've never actually played one but my love for both Jazzmasters and a solid humbucker has made me always want one. I have a beat to shit 2nd hand jazzmaster body laying around and I've been debating either blktri LITS or humbuckers.
Or maybe one of both

But yeah, I think Jazzblasters are rad

[horseblanket]

I just picked up a loaded blacktop jazzmaster HH body on my local CL for a silly low price.
I hear the humbuckers are kinda weak but I am going to give them a shot.
I kinda dislike the racing stripe so I am considering stripping the finish and repainting with Milk Paint - i did a JM before like this before and it turned out great.
Bridge is going to have to go. I may have to mortgage the house for a Mastery.
Now, just have to sit tight and wait for my EGC.

[horseblanket]

BLKTRI Crones sound like thy might be for me - on paper at least.

I've never actually played one but my love for both Jazzmasters and a solid humbucker has made me always want one. I have a beat to shit 2nd hand jazzmaster body laying around and I've been debating either blktri LITS or humbuckers.
Or maybe one of both

But yeah, I think Jazzblasters are rad

[Disarm D'arcy]

I really need to get on drafting an add for my Gibson Les Paul. Stash the money on the savings account, except for a cheap JM with WRHBs

[odontophobia]

Yeah -- I ordered the EGC neck as well. Pretty sure it's going on my JM. As time permits I may look into upgrading the bridge, getting a different pickguard and another set of pickups. I think for pickups what I'm going to look at is maybe some custom humbuckers in JM pickups so I don't have to fuck with routing anything.

[gnomethrone]

I just picked up a loaded blacktop jazzmaster HH body on my local CL for a silly low price.
I hear the humbuckers are kinda weak but I am going to give them a shot.
I kinda dislike the racing stripe so I am considering stripping the finish and repainting with Milk Paint - i did a JM before like this before and it turned out great.
Bridge is going to have to go. I may have to mortgage the house for a Mastery.
Now, just have to sit tight and wait for my EGC.

Yeah the stock blacktop bridge is trash. I went for a warmoth modified mustang bridge and some loctite but I'm a cheapskate.

[horseblanket]

i am following your lead.

[oscillateur]

For the bridge : if you get a MIJ then a normal Mustang bridge will have the good radius by default.
That's what I did for my Jaguar, cheap and efficient.

[horseblanket]

Do you have a plan for matching the radius?
Just kicking ideas around for the moment. My gut tells me it won't be so bad, but you never know.

Yeah -- I ordered the EGC neck as well. Pretty sure it's going on my JM. As time permits I may look into upgrading the bridge, getting a different pickguard and another set of pickups. I think for pickups what I'm going to look at is maybe some custom humbuckers in JM pickups so I don't have to fuck with routing anything.

[odontophobia]

Do you have a plan for matching the radius?
Just kicking ideas around for the moment. My gut tells me it won't be so bad, but you never know.

Yeah -- I ordered the EGC neck as well. Pretty sure it's going on my JM. As time permits I may look into upgrading the bridge, getting a different pickguard and another set of pickups. I think for pickups what I'm going to look at is maybe some custom humbuckers in JM pickups so I don't have to fuck with routing anything.

To be honest I may fork out for the Mastery. The radius on vmjm is 9.5" and the EGC is 12".

Mastery says 7.5" onward. I think Warmoth's modified mustang will do the trick, too, so that's the much cheaper alternative.

[kosta]

Mastery really is the best. Returns to pitch the best of anything I've tried. And rings like a bell. Very flexible and easy to intonate and set up as well.