Discussion of vintage Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Bass VIs, Electric XIIs and any other offset-waist instruments.
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dadsoda
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by dadsoda » Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:30 pm
After hearing about my JM purchase, my Grampa sent me a cool photo of him with his first! Here is what he said in the email.
"Anyway, how do you like your Jazzmaster? Mine was a see through white that we (my bandmate and I) custom ordered. In 1961 I paid about $350 about $2,900 in today's $. Here's a pic of my Strat and Jazzmaster. My 58 Strat cost about $275 or $2,400 in TD$ and my 63 or 64 Jag, black with gold hardware, cost about $400 or $3,300 TD$. Don't have pic of the Jag which is too bad, it was beautiful.."
Love, Grampa and Grandma
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MattK
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by MattK » Sat Nov 09, 2019 12:46 pm
That’s truly awesome, hope I have grandkids who can say that about me some day!
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amv
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by amv » Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:53 pm
Holy fuck do you have cool grandparents.
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mcjt
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by mcjt » Fri Nov 15, 2019 9:07 am
Das cool, man
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Danley
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by Danley » Fri Nov 15, 2019 9:12 am
Totally awesome - he must be gigantic - or else why does the guitar look so tiny?
King Buzzo: I love when people come up to me and say “Your guitar sound was better on Stoner Witch, when you used a Les Paul. “...I used a Fender Mustang reissue on that, dumbass!
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JVG
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by JVG » Mon Nov 18, 2019 7:15 pm
Haha yeah the angle makes it look like his head is bigger than the guitar body!
Great pic though!
J.
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aliendawg
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by aliendawg » Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:55 pm
That's so cool!! It makes me wanna live to be a grandpa so bad. I just hope life doesn't happen and I have to sell all my stuff before they get the chance to see it
"With the resurgence of offsets it seems like we're also seeing a resurgence of people who don't know what to do with them" - 601210
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dadsoda
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by dadsoda » Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:44 am
aliendawg wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:55 pm
That's so cool!! It makes me wanna live to be a grandpa so bad. I just hope life doesn't happen and I have to sell all my stuff before they get the chance to see it
That is what happened to him when he had my dad! I know he still has a '57 Chet Atkins Gretsch and some home built strats.
Making it my goal to never sell my JM!
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by jfine » Sat Nov 23, 2019 4:05 am
I’m a great-grandpa without ever having been a father. I married a lady with (at the time) three teenagers, and thirty years later they’ve got kids of their own, and their kids have kids. Out of all of them, only one of the grandkids plays, and he plays acoustic guitar. I suppose one out of five grandkids isn’t bad—actually, his brother, who’s in his senior year at college, has just taken up guitar, so maybe he’ll do something with it—or maybe the great-grandkids will; they’re a little young yet (the oldest is almost five).
