Stereo Jazzblaster

[red_riviera]

Hi guys, I've been lurking a while and soaking up some good information.  I just finished this project at the weekend and thought you might like to see how it turned out:


"Fender Stereo Jazzblaster"



This took bloody ages... honestly, it would have been easier to invent a time machine, go back to about 1972 and convince Leo Fender to actually make something like this.

Body from a Squier Jagmaster, which I stripped & treated with tung oil before polishing. 

New Jazzmaster rock maple neck, to which I fitted block inlays and finished with vintage tinted nitro lacquer and '65-style decal.

Fender Corona neckplate, graphite nut, Sperzel staggered locking tuners and Schaller straplocks.

Total rewire, including full shielding and stereo output:

GFS Vintage Split humbucker pickups (which can be coil split and put out of phase via push-pull pots on volume & tone knobs - I used Fender amp knobs)
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LR Baggs piezo bridge also gives electro-acoustic sound (selected via the mini 3-way switch and independent volume).







This is going to be the guitar I use in my looping rig, so I can get electric & acoustic sounds.

More pics [url=http://"http://www.flickr.com/photos/35229453@N00/sets/72157604662190760/show/"]HERE[/url]

[fuzzking]

hmm nice! not a fan of block inlays, but this guitar is sure to find some admirers here!

[zhivago]

very cool and very original looking

[eupat]

very nice 
i heard good things about the GFS Vintage Split humbucker.

[northern_dirt]

hmm looks interesting..

Kinda looks like the 2 projects I have going on pushed into one

[ugly casanova]

wow that wiring seems very cool. awesome amout of possibilities

[Stratelejazzuar]

sweet! i like the finish on the neck 

the jazzblaster/piezo factor makes me think "koyl"... 

[aen]

WOW, thats awesome!

[analogsystem]

That neck is Killer!!!!!

The only thing I'd change would be to get the Fender Wide Rangers (RIs are fine) because I look the look of giant pickups in jazzmasters/blasters.

How do the GFS splits sound?

[red_riviera]

Thanks for all the positive comments! 

How do the GFS splits sound?

Well, i've got a Fender Wide Range pup in a Tele 72RI Custom and I have to say that the GFS Vintage Split sounds pretty much identical... I have 500 Meg pots in both guitars so it's a fair comparison.  After checking both sets of pickups on a meter, they were all within 0.2 k of each other, whcih I think would mean that GFS have got their specs pretty accurate.

Another benefit of the wiring is that if you use a mono cable, the mag pickups work perfectly, but the piezo is earthed.  This means that the mini 3-way switch will then function as a killswitch 

[the older brother]

Odd and cool!

I'd put opaque finish on that veneer body - I really like the neck.

You could use a Rick-O-Sound box on that one - cool.