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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster or Jaguar with Alternative Pickups

Post by epizootics » Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:42 pm

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Man, that's beautiful! What the hell is that finish?
Thanks! That's what's called a "happy accident" finish! The theory is that the Behr Sage Green stain/sealer reacted weird with the finish or the buffing and caused this checkering effect. Lomic Guitars did up this body for me and I think he has an idea of how to re-create this effect. Here's his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lomic_guitars/
That's really cool. Accidents don't usually turn out this nice. Did it happen straight away or was it something that happened over time? That's a pretty unique, organic look, something like snake scales. He might have stumbled onto a secret trademark here :)

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by molul » Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:52 pm

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Guess this is a good place for posting pics of my new guitar, a JM with strat pickups :)

It has a Sustainiac drive, a killswitch and a mystery bridge. Body and neck have a satin finish (body is transparent red alder).

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster or Jaguar with Alternative Pickups

Post by thephza » Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:16 am

epizootics wrote:
Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:42 pm
thephza wrote:
Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:15 am
epizootics wrote:
Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:52 pm
Man, that's beautiful! What the hell is that finish?
Thanks! That's what's called a "happy accident" finish! The theory is that the Behr Sage Green stain/sealer reacted weird with the finish or the buffing and caused this checkering effect. Lomic Guitars did up this body for me and I think he has an idea of how to re-create this effect. Here's his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lomic_guitars/
That's really cool. Accidents don't usually turn out this nice. Did it happen straight away or was it something that happened over time? That's a pretty unique, organic look, something like snake scales. He might have stumbled onto a secret trademark here :)
It took some time for it to develop like this. It started off pretty subtle and much smoother looking. I'd say that it got pretty close to it's final state within 30-60 days? Lots of people have commented on how reptilian it looks now.

That all said, I need to experiment with that guitar a little more. I don't care for the lighter gauge strings that I put on it. I thought they'd be great for the Multibender bridge, but it just feels a little flimsy. On the flipside, I actually love the heavier flatwounds that I put on this other build (which in retrospect, would have fit in on this thread with the Tele-neck pickup in the behind-the-bridge placement:
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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by thephza » Mon Oct 05, 2020 10:17 am

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It has a Sustainiac drive, a killswitch and a mystery bridge. Body and neck have a satin finish (body is transparent red alder).
Killer build all around!!! Love the color and how you have the controls all laid out. How hard was the Sustainiac install?

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by molul » Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:42 am

Thanks! Hehehe. Well I asked a luthier to do all the job for me. I would have messed it all ^_^U I would love learning how to build a guitar like this in the future but I would need to have a lot of money, so if I fail it wouldn't hurt that much xD

What I can say is that these pickups work great with Sustainiac. I started with Sustainiac and a jazzmaster pickup in mind, but Alan (the Sustainiac creator) told me it would likely not work very well. Also, after fully testing a friend's jazzmaster I realized I prefer the strat tone, but I wanted to move to a JM body and tremolo, and I couldn't be happier of the result ^_^

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by smjenkins » Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:54 am

Here's a few more:

Jazzmaster Jr with a Novak narrow-range pickup in dogear mount:
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AndrewDoesHair double bound JM body with a JM neck pickup and a P90 JM-mount in the bridge position:
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Competition Telemustangmaster with a Mustang pickup in the neck:
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Double bound thinline JM from Paul Rhoney with TV Jones magnatron in the neck and powertron in the bridge:
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Basic bitch JazzBlaster with Novak WRHBs:
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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by smjenkins » Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:58 am

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This. So much this. Love these two.

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster or Jaguar with Alternative Pickups

Post by smjenkins » Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:02 am

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Nep-Tone lipsticks mounted on custom Tele bridge pickup-style baseplates a friend made for me.
The grain on that body though.

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster or Jaguar with Alternative Pickups

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:54 pm

molul wrote:
Sat Oct 03, 2020 12:52 pm
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Guess this is a good place for posting pics of my new guitar, a JM with strat pickups :)

It has a Sustainiac drive, a killswitch and a mystery bridge. Body and neck have a satin finish (body is transparent red alder).
I completely love this guitar: the color, the pickups, everything. I was wondering about the Sustainiac. Is it like an E-bow, or more for just feedback? How much of a pain in the ass were the Sustainiac people to deal with? After seeing this, I had an idea for a guitar and would love to include one, but their website makes them sound like they are kinda dicks and wasn't sure if it would be worth it or not.

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That is a stunningly gorgeous color scheme!! Totally in love with that :? :? :-*
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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster or Jaguar with Alternative Pickups

Post by molul » Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:16 pm

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I completely love this guitar: the color, the pickups, everything. I was wondering about the Sustainiac. Is it like an E-bow, or more for just feedback? How much of a pain in the ass were the Sustainiac people to deal with? After seeing this, I had an idea for a guitar and would love to include one, but their website makes them sound like they are kinda dicks and wasn't sure if it would be worth it or not.
It's like an ebow, with it's normal and harmonic mode (and an extra "middle" mode that I barely use). Sometimes you can make more than one string ring at the same time but after a while it always goes to the thickest one. To me it's much better than an ebow because you don't have to drop any device to play normally again.

The Sustainiac people are not dicks! Lol. Alan was really helpful answering my questions for like a month and a half, but their website really needs an update. On the other hand, when I ordered the kit, I did it through a local dealer in Spain because I couldn't fully figure out what to order on the official website (the dealer knew exactly what to ask me and I saved a bit on customs tax).

If you have any doubt, feel free to PM me ;)

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster or Jaguar with Alternative Pickups

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:55 pm

molul wrote:
Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:16 pm
Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Sun Oct 11, 2020 4:54 pm
I completely love this guitar: the color, the pickups, everything. I was wondering about the Sustainiac. Is it like an E-bow, or more for just feedback? How much of a pain in the ass were the Sustainiac people to deal with? After seeing this, I had an idea for a guitar and would love to include one, but their website makes them sound like they are kinda dicks and wasn't sure if it would be worth it or not.
It's like an ebow, with it's normal and harmonic mode (and an extra "middle" mode that I barely use). Sometimes you can make more than one string ring at the same time but after a while it always goes to the thickest one. To me it's much better than an ebow because you don't have to drop any device to play normally again.

The Sustainiac people are not dicks! Lol. Alan was really helpful answering my questions for like a month and a half, but their website really needs an update. On the other hand, when I ordered the kit, I did it through a local dealer in Spain because I couldn't fully figure out what to order on the official website (the dealer knew exactly what to ask me and I saved a bit on customs tax).

If you have any doubt, feel free to PM me ;)
Glad to know that they are friendly and helpful! It might've just been the website that needs a major update (and pictures of the Sustainiac driver and subsequent options). I've got an Ebow and I use it quite a bit. I thought the idea of having one guitar where it's built-in might be really cool. Here's what I was thinking:

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Jazzcaster with a P-90 in the bridge, Sustainiac in the neck, and a behind-the-bridge, non-tremolo JM tailpiece plate (like from Faction). I don't know if it's possible (I'll email the Sustainiac guys if I decide to pursue), but I thought having a on-off switch AND a momentary on-off switch for the Sustainiac would be cool.
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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by molul » Sun Oct 11, 2020 11:10 pm

Not sure about the p90, but Alan told me that the jazzmaster soap pickup wouldn't be powerful enough to power the Sustainiac drive, so I went with the humbucker strat pickup approach (and I'm so glad I did).

Oh, another advice: don't go with the other sustain system, the Fernandes Sustainer. It's kind of an old Sustainiac model, licensed back in the day (late 90s I think). The current Sustainiac is the best option.

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Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:22 am

I'm pretty sure that P-90s have a bit higher output than JM pickups, so I'm not too worried about that. I'll definitely hit those guys up to chat at some point.

The Fernandes Sustainer always seemed pretty cool, but I heard it was kind of a pain in the ass as you had to use the entire system, i.e., you couldn't use other pickups. I never used it, but at that point, I went with the Ebow.
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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by Tweedledee » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:57 am

smjenkins wrote:
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This. So much this. Love these two.
That's so kind of you to say! :)

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Re: Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups

Post by smjenkins » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:02 pm

Tweedledee wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:57 am
smjenkins wrote:
Sun Oct 11, 2020 10:58 am
Tweedledee wrote:
Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:29 pm
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This. So much this. Love these two.
That's so kind of you to say! :)
A bit off-topic, but I see your pic of dual short scale CFM offsets and raise it with a pic of dual 25.5 scale CFM offsets. CFM AF. :)

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