Page 1 of 2

Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 8:15 am
by haledixon
ive got a nice stock avri jaguar and wanted something different, so i just took delivery of this jaguar - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=010 - and had my first experience changing out pickups... was replacing the unidentified bridge duncan with a Super Distortion (which also came in the neck) - my first experience soldering anything. im exchanging the neck pickup for an Air Norton and at least the soldering for it doesn't look quite as challenging. so right now it has a super dist in the neck and bridge and sounds like a monster. big ballsy sound and lots of sustain (at least compared to jag p'ups).

so who here uses humbuckers in their jags or jms, and what kind are you using?

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:27 pm
by i love sharin foo
I built a Jazzmaster using Telecaster Deluxe pickups  :) It sounds really nice with them. What kind of baffled me at first though, is that it still  sounds like a Jazzmaster, just quite a bit thicker with a more mellow treble response. I'm really enjoying it.

Here is a photo:

Image

Justin

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:33 pm
by haledixon
the bit about it sounding still like a JM... with just the neck pickup on mine the tone is nothing like my stock jag, but add the bridge p'up an the tone brightens up and gets jangly again... neck + bridge HBs are a beefier approximation of my stock jag's neck p'up.

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:53 pm
by aen
I've got one in my scumbag

Image

It's a bit too muddy on it's own, but the higher out pt is great fro playing swells, and driving finnicky effects.

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:54 am
by mVI
Here are mine with HB's and some of the others:

Image

-Mike

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:14 am
by flatfiver
Is that a synth pickup on the turquoise quilt-top JM?

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:29 am
by mVI
flatfiver wrote: Is that a synth pickup on the turquoise quilt-top JM?
Yes it was taken out of a GK strat and put into the JM

-Mike

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:42 pm
by Green angel
mVI wrote: Here are mine with HB's and some of the others:

Image

-Mike
Black Jazzmaster with matching headstock  :-*
It's a custom shop?

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:56 pm
by mVI
Which Black one ? The one with Humbuckers is a warmoth body and neck the other one is a 64

-Mike
Green angel wrote:
mVI wrote: Here are mine with HB's and some of the others:

Image

-Mike
Black Jazzmaster with matching headstock  :-*
It's a custom shop?

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:53 am
by Green angel
I was speaking about the 64' one, it's my dream!!  ???

Are you satisfied about the warmoth one?

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:43 am
by nealescott
yeah me too...  8)

Image
Image

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:00 am
by FireAarro
nealescott wrote:
Image
:-* :-* :-* :-* One of my favourite Jazzmasters. Was my MSN display pic for a while, it's that good. What is it exactly though? And where did you get those knobs?

EDIT: Okay, maybe my favourite.

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:01 am
by chrisjedijane
they're fender amp knobs, aren't they?

Neal, those guitars are great :D

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:04 pm
by StevenO
I love that jazzblaster, looks really nice.

Re: Humbuckers, REPRESENT!

Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:20 pm
by Mad-Mike
i dunno if single size hums are ok here, but heres a few closeups up my cool-railed CIJ...

then (dec 2K5)
Image

now (nov 2k6)
Image