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Had something of a productive weekend, building a pair of gigging strats. Decided to strip back to just what I need, so one pickup, one volume, no faffing around. Necks are Warmoth - one with quartersawn maple and ebony fretboard, the other is maple with a rosewood fretboard - bodies are poplar from GFS. Gotoh hardware on both. Seymour Duncan JB in the yellow one, DiMarzio Fred in the green one, both tuned down to A :yarr:









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[quote name='Bass_Guardian' timestamp='1428363557' post='2740668']
My 1989 Japanese Fender 50's Telecaster
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Love those late 80s early 90s Jap Fenders. Stick some top spec electrics & pups in them and you have one of the best Fenders available.

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Here are a few of mine



My pride and joy: AVRI '62 Stratocaster in 3 Colour Sunburst from 1989. This thing absolutely sings, warm and mellow in the neck position, tight and defined in the middle and nice and hot in the bridge position. Still has the stock 3 way switch, although positioning the switch in between two pickups yields that snappy, funky 'quack' sound. The nut has also been replaced with a graphtech nut to improve tuning stability with tremolo use.


Squier Classic Vibe Telecaster in Butterscotch Blonde made in 2013. Bought to be mainly a backup guitar but works surprisingly well as a number 1 too. Solid as a rock, you can do anything to it and it will be still be in tune. Great little guitar and incredible value for money.


My most recent guitar purchase, a beautiful Cherry Red Epiphone 335 from 2014. Looks incredible and plays nicely too, although it doesn't really get any play time as I'm always playing my Strat. I shouldn't imagine I'll be holding on to it for much longer, which is a shame but I've been looking at a Bass VI and this thing will have to go to make room for one, especially where it's not getting played. Nonetheless, it's still a great guitar.

I also have a couple of modded Squier Stratocasters; I have a really heavily reliced white strat (think CS John Cruz Ultimate Relic) and also another squier strat refinished in Shell Pink nitro. Both of these are just backups for the AVRI and I usually only end up taking one of them to gigs. I occasionally pull it out during the set just to turn some heads with the funky finishes :P but they're more for looks/backups than anything else. I'll post some pictures of those as well at some point. That being said, they don't actually sound half bad and they do a perfectly good job for a song or two whilst someone else is fixing the sunburst one for me.

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Nice to have someone else to fix your guitar for you on a gig!
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Sure is haha. He's a lot busier now than he used to be though and doesn't really have the time to be coming to watch my gigs just waiting until I break a string (which is usually inevitable :P)

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I picked this up the other day:




It's a 2008 Fender "thin skin" AVRI Jaguar. I've wanted a Jag for ages, but somehow kept buying Jazzmasters instead. Anyway, I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket and then this turned up locally. The thin skins are pretty rare. I've read in a couple of places that only 25 of each colour were made.
This particular Jag has a Staytrem bridge added, which is very nicely made and works very well. I suspect I will end up replacing the bridges on my Jazzmasters with them too. The scratchplate is by Spitfire and is just stunning in the flesh. The guy at Spitfire is the only one IMO who manages to do tortoiseshell as good as the vintage stuff. Why the Fender Custom Shop doesn't use his work is beyond me.

It's interesting that the Jag that came up was in Daphne Blue, as my think skin Jazzmaster is also Daphne Blue!


Well, that's one more Fender offset crossed off the list. What I'd like next is a Custom/Maverick, but the chance of finding one are pretty remote, especially at a reasonable price. I did happen to chance upon one in Peterborough, back in either '91 or '92 and it was £495. I'd just bought two Rickenbackers and was totally skint. I really wanted it and have regretted not selling any family members for medical experiments ever since!

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[quote name='Lasermonkey' timestamp='1461203327' post='3032451']
I picked this up the other day:




It's a 2008 Fender "thin skin" AVRI Jaguar. I've wanted a Jag for ages, but somehow kept buying Jazzmasters instead. Anyway, I had some cash burning a hole in my pocket and then this turned up locally. The thin skins are pretty rare. I've read in a couple of places that only 25 of each colour were made.
This particular Jag has a Staytrem bridge added, which is very nicely made and works very well. I suspect I will end up replacing the bridges on my Jazzmasters with them too. The scratchplate is by Spitfire and is just stunning in the flesh. The guy at Spitfire is the only one IMO who manages to do tortoiseshell as good as the vintage stuff. Why the Fender Custom Shop doesn't use his work is beyond me.

It's interesting that the Jag that came up was in Daphne Blue, as my think skin Jazzmaster is also Daphne Blue!


Well, that's one more Fender offset crossed off the list. What I'd like next is a Custom/Maverick, but the chance of finding one are pretty remote, especially at a reasonable price. I did happen to chance upon one in Peterborough, back in either '91 or '92 and it was £495. I'd just bought two Rickenbackers and was totally skint. I really wanted it and have regretted not selling any family members for medical experiments ever since!
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Lovely!

Love my Jazzmaster.

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On the JM and Jag, the upper slide switch engages the "rhythm circuit" on the neck pickup. This has its own volume and tone control, which are the two roller wheels you can see next to it. It's much darker than the standard neck pickup sound, but I've found it useful at times. These controls are independent of the main tone and volume knobs.

On the Jaguar, the three lower switches are, from left-right: Strangle Switch (it's a high-pass filter, which takes out a fair chunk of the bottom-end); bridge pickup on/off; neck pickup on/off.

I have a few more Fender offsets. There's a couple of Japanese Jazzmasters, a Pawnshop Bass VI and a '65 Electric XII. Oh, and a Jazz Bass! Guess what colour that is....



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[quote name='Lasermonkey' timestamp='1461296716' post='3033400']
On the JM and Jag, the upper slide switch engages the "rhythm circuit" on the neck pickup. This has its own volume and tone control, which are the two roller wheels you can see next to it. It's much darker than the standard neck pickup sound, but I've found it useful at times. These controls are independent of the main tone and volume knobs.

On the Jaguar, the three lower switches are, from left-right: Strangle Switch (it's a high-pass filter, which takes out a fair chunk of the bottom-end); bridge pickup on/off; neck pickup on/off.

I have a few more Fender offsets. There's a couple of Japanese Jazzmasters, a Pawnshop Bass VI and a '65 Electric XII. Oh, and a Jazz Bass! Guess what colour that is....




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Wow!

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