Re: Modded my Jazzmaster (humbucker content)

garyptaszek · Post by **garyptaszek** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:28 am

Been really disapointed with my Jazzmasters live sound. The stock pickups in CIJ's are pretty piss poor...

I want to get some new JM pups. Seymour D' Quarter-Pounders or some Curtis Novak JM-90s.

for now though I've stuck my trust ol' Bareknuckle Nailbomb in it. Mounted and screwed straight to the body.

Lookin forward to next band rehursal...

ugly casanova · Post by **ugly casanova** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:39 am

looks cool. i know what you mean with the cij pickups. they work for my recordings but in a live enviroment they're pretty weak.

garyptaszek · Post by **garyptaszek** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:03 am

with pup ring... oh yes

stoked

Stratelejazzuar · Post by **Stratelejazzuar** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:06 am

nice! definitely sweeter with the ring!

ohm-men · Post by **ohm-men** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 10:30 pm

It fits the bill imo. It looks great and probably lives up to your expectations. + it looks out of the ordenairy which is a big + in my book as well.
The Pu ring looks great.
I might give that setup a try myself one day.

And for the neck, you can easely fit any singlecoil fender spaced pu under the existing JM cover. I used to play a CIJ JM for quiet a while with some aftermarket Strat pu's (bridge and middle pu's to replace the stock ones. Sound improved a lot and they just fitted under the stock pu covers.)

m3dicated · Post by **m3dicated** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:35 am

Looks really sweet, specially with that ring.

garyptaszek · Post by **garyptaszek** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:41 am

yeah Im feeling it.
The nailbomb is such a great pickup. I've used it in about 5 different guitars and it has a way of mixing the guitars natural tone with itself.
It still sounds bright in the JM but with some serious punch in the lower ranges.

ohm-men · Post by **ohm-men** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:52 am

The brightness is due to the 1Meg pots in the JM. You can lower those to 500K pots and put a 0.22Pfu cap in it. THen you'll get a less brigth output. It couls also work to tame the stock neck pu.

m3dicated · Post by **m3dicated** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:14 am

^ Question about the 1meg pots, kinda off-topic, i know, but.. Does the 500K pot sound the same as 1Meg pot rolled halfway down?

ugly casanova · Post by **ugly casanova** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:12 am

did you need to do any modifications to the pickguard? i think i am going to make that to my cij jazzmaster too because i never use the standart pickup anyway..
did you screw the mount ring into the wood? where did you get the screws for that?

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:03 am

looks good, you should age the neck pick up cover to match the worn down look of the humbucker

sexy andy · Post by **sexy andy** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:13 am

looks surprisingly good

garyptaszek · Post by **garyptaszek** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:38 am

ohm-men wrote: The brightness is due to the 1Meg pots in the JM. You can lower those to 500K pots and put a 0.22Pfu cap in it. THen you'll get a less brigth output. It couls also work to tame the stock neck pu.

Incorrect... I have previously replaced the pots and caps because the stock ones are fucking balls... it was still too bright and weedy with these changes.
A savage mod was inorder...

Killamangiro* wrote: did you need to do any modifications to the pickguard? i think i am going to make that to my cij jazzmaster too because i never use the standart pickup anyway..
did you screw the mount ring into the wood? where did you get the screws for that?

I used some short screws, kinda like pickguard screws but thinner, to mount the pickup to the body. Then I used 2 screws, similar to the Jazzmaster pup cover screws, to mount the pup ring to the body.
Just make sure you pickup right over hangs the pickup route on the pickguard

garyptaszek · Post by **garyptaszek** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 11:40 am

sexy andy wrote: looks surprisingly good

thanks, cant wait to see what it sounds like at band practise

ugly casanova · Post by **ugly casanova** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:10 pm

would it be theoretically possible to mount the pickup to the ring and then mount the ring to the body?