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[emergency72]

Originally Posted by Gasss

= cool

you can buy two for just over £300

Damn....one of those would have been nice for xmas

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Gasss

= cool

you can buy two for just over £300

Hmm. I'm quite tempted to get one of those as a backup guitar now.

[Old Gold]

Something with P90s and a hardtail would definately be a plan.

I was really interested in the Fender Tornado too. Not sure about the humbuckers though. If you don't mind their latest image assosciation, LP Juniors are nice and stripped down, although I'd personally miss the neck pickup.

Jazzmasters are really lovely, versatile guitars... although the tuning down would play buggery with the bridge.

[stuartmaxwell]

if ye get a gibson bridge in em, they tune to perfection and rarely deviate from that (so i am reliably informed!)

[GraemeC]

Originally Posted by stuartmaxwell

if ye get a gibson bridge in em, they tune to perfection and rarely deviate from that (so i am reliably informed!)

Fender have no history of poor bridges to my knowlege....

[Old Gold]

Originally Posted by GraemeC

Fender have no history of poor bridges to my knowlege....

It's not that the bridges are bad... it's just that you can't expect a Jazzmaster vibrato bridge to be reliable when tuning up and down a lot. A tune-o-matic bridge would definately be a lot easier, as long as you dont mind loosing the whammy bar.

Jazzmaster /Jaguar bridges suck. The stock jazzmaster holds the strings with just a screw thread, leading them to jump out when any sideways (i.e hard strumming) force is applied.




You don't have to lose the whammy, what Maxi suggests is just changing the bridge and leaving the tailpiece. The easiest solution is to replace the bridge with a mustang bridge which does not require any alteration to the guitar (unlike a tuneomatic bridge).



[the mustang saddle on the right has a much bigger, deeper groove than the jazz/jag saddle]

[Jan Deal]

Stock Jaguar/Jazzmaster bridges are indeed terrible, that is why I bought one of these:



...It copes with down tuning just fine, mine is currently tuned down to C and I have no problems with that.

[GraemeC]

Originally Posted by SpanishArmada

It's not that the bridges are bad... it's just that you can't expect a Jazzmaster vibrato bridge to be reliable when tuning up and down a lot. A tune-o-matic bridge would definately be a lot easier, as long as you dont mind loosing the whammy bar.

I accept that but it was a telecaster we were talking about...

what about a melody maker?

you could be like the dismemberment plan?

or the libertines?