Alden Jazzmaster Copy

[Naturality]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALDEN-JAZZCASTER- ... dZViewItem
I'm getting one of these.

[dinosaur]

Interesting copy.  That tremelo looks like it would be rather rough, but at least they have shell pink.

[StevenO]

That's actually vintage white.

[dinosaur]

That's actually vintage white.

Man my laptop screen is way off.

[FireAarro]

I wouldn't do it man... that vibrato looks unusable. Those pickups don't look JM sized either, I think. Just looks kinda cheap, but I dunno.

The frontal picture of the white looks pink, but in the pic of the back it looks white.

[StevenO]

Yeah, this deffinitely isn't a spot on copy, which is understandable. It deffinitely looks better than the SX jazzmaster thing that Rondo is selling.

And yeah, it looks like shell pink. The only reason I knew it wasn't is because it said vintage white.

[i love sharin foo]

And yeah, it looks like shell pink. The only reason I knew it wasn't is because it said vintage white.

Yeah, there's some weird lighting going on in that photo.


Justin

[fullerplast]

Haha... I think it looks pretty cool for the price!

I'll bet a Fender-style neck would bolt right up, but I wonder if an AV trem would fit in there?

Is that a tuna-matic I see?

[FireAarro]

Haha... I think it looks pretty cool for the price!

I'll bet a Fender-style neck would bolt right up, but I wonder if an AV trem would fit in there?

Is that a tuna-matic I see?

Apparently it's some Alden/Wilkinson Roller-Ma-Jig

[fullerplast]

That's the kind of guitar you buy for cheap and spend a fortune on upgrading... to the point where you have more in it than what the guitar you originally wanted would have cost you.

Sounds dumb.... but we've all been there!

Apparently it's some Alden/Wilkinson Roller-Ma-Jig

Ahhh... you actually read the auction. Thanks! 

[Mad-Mike]

Things Wrong

- SLide Switches instead of Rollers (I dunno what they do)
- Pickup spacing is way off, they are both too close to the center
- Trem Bar Too Short
- Same trem as used on Mosrite copies (not bad, just not correct to the guitar style)
- Body shape may be a teensy bit different.
- Pickguard shape off, missing little "tooth/wave" on the upper rhythm circuit section, also, the lead vol/tone/output jack area seems too wide
- pickup selector in the wrong place, needs to be closer to the edge
- Roller Bridge, which might be a better deal

However, if cheap enough, it looks like a GREAT candidate to Jazzmaster-Ize over a period of time.  I don't know how good the pickups are, but I know that pickguard, bridge, trem, and possiblly tuners would be swapped for Jazzmaster parts, and an ALlparts bridge installed.

Of course, I Think a LOT Of those changes are to keep them from being sued by Fender, especially any body changes, sine a LOT of the Jazzmaster and Jaguar designs are patented (the trem, the body shape, the pickups, the circuitry).  From playing a Univox Hi-Flyer before though, I'd say the trem would not be as bad as some might think, actually I like it, and it feels a lot like my CIJ Jaguar's trem.

[Mad-Mike]

That's the kind of guitar you buy for cheap and spend a fortune on upgrading... to the point where you have more in it than what the guitar you originally wanted would have cost you.

Sounds dumb.... but we've all been there!

Apparently it's some Alden/Wilkinson Roller-Ma-Jig

Ahhh... you actually read the auction. Thanks! 

I dunno, I used to do that whole upgrading a cheap guitar thing, only difference is I did it over time, and usually used the cheapest parts I could get my hands on whenever they became so.  So one week it would be stock, about a month later it turns up with a new pickguard, some missing parts, and moved pickups.  Then about 2 months later there's the Jaguar & Jazzmaster Trem/Bridge, and then not much afterward, Rhythm Circuit and Rollers.

[fullerplast]

Those switches are phase switches, and one bypasses the tone controls, if I understand the auction text correctly. 

I still think it's cool... for the price.

I like the Hi-Flyer trem....

[JazzBlaster]

looks good for the price, do they sell em in the us?

[dinosaur]

Well at least other's thought it was shell pink. 

That price is just too much for me.  I would want it to be maybe half of that to mess around with.  Otherwise I would pay the extra for a used CIJ/MIJ.  ...And still mess around with that.