"Why did you do it? Why did you do this thing to me?"

Discussion of vintage Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Bass VIs, Electric XIIs and any other offset-waist instruments.
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Post by bdf83 » Mon Oct 26, 2020 1:06 am

The $1600 asking price is complemented by the $1600 shipping rate...

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Post by zhivago » Mon Oct 26, 2020 7:52 am

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Post by R_T_Hermit » Tue Oct 27, 2020 8:27 am

Seems to me if ya put in that much effort, you’d go ahead and simulate a 12 string head for the mandolin part. Just sayin’. :derp:
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Post by tune_link » Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:15 am

adamrobertt wrote:
Thu Oct 22, 2020 1:50 am
s_mcsleazy wrote:
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Someone call The Hague over this war crime... :fp:

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https://reverb.com/item/36081213-fender ... inish-1964
this one comes up every so often, the dude sometimes tries to sell it on facebook saying it's worth like $5k
What I don't get about hack jobs like this one is like... if you have a Jaguar, but you want a Les Paul, just fucking sell the Jaguar and buy a Les Paul. Why hack up a perfectly good guitar to turn it into something completely the opposite of what it actually is, especially when the thing that you want already exists? No no, let's bust out the router and have a fucking custom vibrato plate made!
I'm REAL perplexed by the vibrato plate here. I mean, whatever the orig Jag body was...it looked to be a hard tail and ...why would you ever put a plate on that has no purpose whatsoever?! There's not trem cavity under that right? It's just "I got a weird hair up my ass and decided to bolt an unnecessary piece of metal here for no reason."

Also the number of knobs...got me like ???

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Post by will » Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:24 am

tune_link wrote:
Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:15 am

I'm REAL perplexed by the vibrato plate here. I mean, whatever the orig Jag body was...it looked to be a hard tail and ...why would you ever put a plate on that has no purpose whatsoever?! There's not trem cavity under that right? It's just "I got a weird hair up my ass and decided to bolt an unnecessary piece of metal here for no reason."

Also the number of knobs...got me like ???
offsets with hardtails are a recent thing. Old Jaguars and Jazzmasters all had a tremolo - so it is blocking off a rout.

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Post by tune_link » Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:27 am

will wrote:
Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:24 am
tune_link wrote:
Tue Oct 27, 2020 9:15 am

I'm REAL perplexed by the vibrato plate here. I mean, whatever the orig Jag body was...it looked to be a hard tail and ...why would you ever put a plate on that has no purpose whatsoever?! There's not trem cavity under that right? It's just "I got a weird hair up my ass and decided to bolt an unnecessary piece of metal here for no reason."

Also the number of knobs...got me like ???
offsets with hardtails are a recent thing. Old Jaguars and Jazzmasters all had a tremolo - so it is blocking off a rout.
OH they did this to a vintage Jag!?!?!?!?! Shiiiiiiit this was bad enough when I thought that was one of the modern Jag bodies. That's my bad for not going to the link.

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Post by gusgorman » Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:43 am

zhivago wrote:
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Post by will » Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:53 am

I'm pretty sure that there is the Jazzmaster/Mandolin version of this earlier in this thread...

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Post by crianlarich » Wed Oct 28, 2020 12:39 am

But this one is 10000% better!
with two maple fretboards it would be about the sexiest thing I've seen on here.
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Post by sumlin » Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:16 am

will wrote:
Tue Oct 27, 2020 11:53 am
I'm pretty sure that there is the Jazzmaster/Mandolin version of this earlier in this thread...
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Post by mgeek » Wed Oct 28, 2020 5:38 am

I've got a soft spot for those old Western Swing type customisations, even if they used an April 1956 Musicmaster to do it with, honestly I'd be more excited to get that than an unmodded one.

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Post by venompstinger » Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:02 am

what's left of a quite rare guyatone lg180t

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https://www.jauce.com/auction/t766481383

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Post by MrFingers » Thu Oct 29, 2020 5:32 am

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264754366975

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Used: An item that has been previously used. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. " :w00t: :D

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Post by Ceylon » Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:45 am

venompstinger wrote:
Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:02 am
what's left of a quite rare guyatone lg180t

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https://www.jauce.com/auction/t766481383
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Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Oct 29, 2020 7:07 am

Ceylon wrote:
Thu Oct 29, 2020 6:45 am
The most offensive thing is how they spelled Echoes wrong.
It's pronounced EE--KO--HEEZ ;)
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