Hi guys! I love Jazzmasters and Jaguars and other offsetty Fenders. My offsets are a Geddy Lee signature Jazz Bass and a recently acquired AVRI '62 Jaguar from the 'Bay. It's olympic white with a 1967 tort guard. It's a fantastic guitar, playability and feel is great. It came with a buzz stop, I took it off and I think I prefer the sound without it. The only real problem I've had with it is that the tremlock button keeps shaking itself loose, I've just taped it in place for now. Also, taking off the neck to adjust the truss rod is a bit of a bother... on my Jazz Bass my dad installed a spokewheel truss rod adjuster (like on MusicMan instruments), I'm considering doing that to the Jag too. What's stopping me though is having to cut a bit off the '67 pickguard, the guitar also came with a new mint green and new tort guard but the '67 does look nice and I'm scared it might shrink if keep it off the guitar (even though it's not nitrate, I read in another thread here someone's non-nitrate guard shrunk a bit?). Or I could sell the '67 guard and use one of the others. What do you think I should do?
What do folks around here think of the AVRI Jag pickups? How do they compare to boutiques like Novak? Also, can the rhythm circuit be wired to give both pickups in series? I'm wondering if that would produce a more useful tone than the standard rhythm circuit.
I listen to all sorts of music.
I generally play bass, but am spending more and more time on guitars now (much easier to write music on a guitar). I'm bassist in a band which often sounds a bit too much like the Mars Volta. You can check us out here [url=http://]http://www.myspace.com/ursamajorsound[/url]. I have some other bands which are waiting to be started but finding drummers can be a tricky task.
Anyway, looking forward to some good times here
. Pics will come soon, promise.
Times change. Remember when dog Jimmy used to go white and chalky? Now it grows hair! We got used to it. We'll get used to poly. -blueavenger
