old guitar day: making my vm jaguar (even more) unresellable

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old guitar day: making my vm jaguar (even more) unresellable

Post by Lobsterdeth » Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:30 pm

hi folks i acquired this vm jaguar hh for very cheap a couple years back and usually never played it cause i hated the fuckin bridge and the pickups on it just look at this thing (not my picture i forgot to take a picture of the one i got before i took it apart lmao):

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fuckin awful man look at those stacked knobs and the owner of danelectro is a homophobe i don't want his fuckin bridge on my guitar, the original owner had swapped out the neck pickup for a gibson paf that is now lying somewhere in my closet, i got it for like 140 bucks off him, the worst part is that he sanded the squier logo off like a fuckin poser what a nerd lmao
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this is how it turned out:
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i switched the bridge pickup for an old (and i do mean old) dimarzio fast track 2 i had lying around forever, not even bothering to cover the holes in the pickguard, i also took out the strat-style input jack and also did not bother covering it up, and got rid of those awful stacked knobs and went with a single knob config cause i'm too smooth brain to operate guitars with lots of controls in em

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fast forward to today!! i finally got off my gotdang ass and decided this guitar needed some tlc (tables ladders and chairs baybee) and i got a set of pickup adapter rings from guitarfetish (7 bucks for plastic wtf) and a wilkinson tele bridge with the brass saddles and shit cause sadly no other bridge matches the post length of those ugly fuckin danelectro bridges, i didn't bother filling those holes either but i finally got around to filling the old jack route hole in the best, most classy way known to man: anime girl stickers

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the neck pickup is a billy corgan signature bc-1 which he stopped using after his fight with fender or whatever i don't care if he's an annoying loser that picks fights with everybody that makes him gear i still love siamese dream and gish and shit and of course the biggest upgrade of all: a black speed knob lee ranaldo style baybee, that's where the real tone comes from

it sounds pretty great man i love dimarzio and thank you all for reading my blog

fun fact: the same anime girl also covers the holes left by the removal of the rhythm circuit on my avri jm!! real ones will know
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Re: old guitar day: making my vm jaguar (even more) unresellable

Post by F15hface » Mon Apr 21, 2025 3:50 am

One of these was my first electric guitar. It currently has a bullet mustang neck and no electronics. I’ve been meaning to replace the bridge for ages, knowing I can whack on a hard tail like that certainly sounds easier than the conversion to a jaguar bridge I was considering. Looks cool!

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Post by LVC » Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:48 pm

For a drop-in (but pricier) solution, have a look at the Jeff Senn DRB2 bridge.


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Re: old guitar day: making my vm jaguar (even more) unresellable

Post by Lobsterdeth » Mon Apr 21, 2025 2:49 pm

F15hface wrote:
Mon Apr 21, 2025 3:50 am
One of these was my first electric guitar. It currently has a bullet mustang neck and no electronics. I’ve been meaning to replace the bridge for ages, knowing I can whack on a hard tail like that certainly sounds easier than the conversion to a jaguar bridge I was considering. Looks cool!
it was easier than i expected, apparently knowing how to use a measuring tape pays off
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For a drop-in (but pricier) solution, have a look at the Jeff Senn DRB2 bridge.


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ah fuck man
at 100 bucks that ain't too bad
oh well i already done what i done
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Re: old guitar day: making my vm jaguar (even more) unresellable

Post by LeftyJ » Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:35 am

Trev Wilkinson has a fart fetish, you sure you want to support that guy? :D

J/k, cool mods and a very cool guitar!

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Post by sonicmander » Tue Apr 22, 2025 10:10 am

fuck yea we got the anime jagblaster
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Post by Lobsterdeth » Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:02 am

LeftyJ wrote:
Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:35 am
Trev Wilkinson has a fart fetish, you sure you want to support that guy? :D

J/k, cool mods and a very cool guitar!
thanks fam you just made me remember that awful fucking harley quinn fart fetish comic dc comics unironically published and now i wanna puke
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Post by Steadyriot. » Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:20 am

Hell yeah team Anime Girl!
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Never noticed these have the full-sized Jazzmaster style pickguard. That's a pretty cool move from Fender actually. Like the mods that you did to it. Fuck that strat jack.
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Re: old guitar day: making my vm jaguar (even more) unresellable

Post by Lobsterdeth » Thu Apr 24, 2025 2:15 pm

Steadyriot. wrote:
Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:20 am
Hell yeah team Anime Girl!
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Never noticed these have the full-sized Jazzmaster style pickguard. That's a pretty cool move from Fender actually. Like the mods that you did to it. Fuck that strat jack.
they used to be called jagmasters before so i figure that's why they had/have the jazzmaster-type guards, but the bridge post holes are too wide for regular offset bridges if not i woulda probably used one instead of the tele bridge
heck yes tomie :?
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