Post Your Jagmasters!

Robb. · 05-10-2010, 08:16 AM

Hey Guys,
I really like the Jagstangs ever since i saw Kurt Cobain using his Jaguar.
Also i think at some point i may Buy one and mod it, like change pups (depending if they are good or not ect) and adding a chrome controll plate because that is a really cool vibe kinda thing.
so anyways please all those Jagmaster owners, coud you post up your Jags, maybe add a little story to it ect..

I would, if i had a Jag xD

Papa Joe · 05-11-2010, 04:45 PM

http://www.squier-talk.com/forum/squier-duo-sonic-jagmaster/15-my-jagmaster.html
http://www.squier-talk.com/forum/squier-duo-sonic-jagmaster/731-changin-pups-my-jagmaster.html
http://www.squier-talk.com/forum/squier-duo-sonic-jagmaster/766-my-new-jagmaster.html

kurdt · 05-12-2010, 01:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Robb.

Hey Guys,
I really like the Jagstangs ever since i saw Kurt Cobain using his Jaguar.
Also i think at some point i may Buy one and mod it, like change pups (depending if they are good or not ect) and adding a chrome controll plate because that is a really cool vibe kinda thing.
so anyways please all those Jagmaster owners, coud you post up your Jags, maybe add a little story to it ect..

I would, if i had a Jag xD

i don't have any pics, but i have a jagmaster with a dimarzio super distortion in the bridge position, a gfs tremelo assembly, and vintage style tuners and its a great guitar

Robb. · 05-13-2010, 01:03 PM

awesome papa joe and Kurdt.
also isnt the super distortion part or cobains spec?

KCSquierFan · 05-29-2010, 12:05 AM

Here is mine - it's a 2008 VM Jagmaster.

peskypesky · 05-29-2010, 01:04 AM

if i bought a Jagmaster, i'd have to put some P90s in it quickly...like this

ozboomer · 05-29-2010, 08:53 AM

Just something to keep in mind with a Jagmaster...

The scale length on a Strat, for example, is 25.5 inches (648mm)... but it's only 24 inches (610mm) on the Jagmaster; I tried playing a Jagmaster (and a Jaguar, for that matter) again recently... and having played Strats and Les Pauls for years, I just can't cope with the shorter scale length...

Just a thought...

wickedtools · 05-29-2010, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by peskypesky

if i bought a Jagmaster, i'd have to put some P90s in it quickly...like this

Now that is a "GAS" moment

Papa Joe · 05-29-2010, 12:54 PM

This took care of my GAS on my Jag.Love these pick ups...

peskypesky · 05-29-2010, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by ozboomer

Just something to keep in mind with a Jagmaster...

The scale length on a Strat, for example, is 25.5 inches (648mm)... but it's only 24 inches (610mm) on the Jagmaster; I tried playing a Jagmaster (and a Jaguar, for that matter) again recently... and having played Strats and Les Pauls for years, I just can't cope with the shorter scale length...

Just a thought...

hmmm....thanks for pointing that out. i guess i'd better play one before i buy one. like this one that's on CL here in NYC:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/msg/1765279509.html

KCSquierFan · 05-29-2010, 02:48 PM

Papa Joe,

What pickups did you go with on your Jagmaster? I know you had posted it at one time, but I am too lazy to go back and look.

Thanks,
Jim

Papa Joe · 05-29-2010, 06:48 PM

Those are Guitar Fetitish Nashville Vintage Retrotrons..

KCSquierFan · 05-30-2010, 03:32 PM

Great, thank you sir!

Jim

Robb. · 06-02-2010, 11:05 AM

Verry Nice Guys, and i totaly agree with the shorter scale thing, but jazzmasters,Jags and jagmasters look so damn sexy i think, athough im strat man at heart

peskypesky · 06-02-2010, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by ozboomer

Just something to keep in mind with a Jagmaster...

The scale length on a Strat, for example, is 25.5 inches (648mm)... but it's only 24 inches (610mm) on the Jagmaster; I tried playing a Jagmaster (and a Jaguar, for that matter) again recently... and having played Strats and Les Pauls for years, I just can't cope with the shorter scale length...

is it possible to put a Strat neck on a Jagmaster?

Robb. · 06-03-2010, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by peskypesky

is it possible to put a Strat neck on a Jagmaster?

Im Not certain but i think you can, the heel is the same size as some of the squier models, i think its called a crossover neck or something...

Telepicker · 06-03-2010, 08:39 PM

You can put a strat neck on it. The Jagmaster neck is a 24" conversion neck, so the bridge placement is ok for a real 25.5" neck.

Beach Bum Scott · 09-23-2010, 08:51 PM

I was really wanting a Jagmaster too but all my other guitars are the longer scale like my Strat then I read this....

"The Jagmaster was brought back into production in 2002-05, this time made in China and featuring a 25.5" neck (21 frets)."

A while back I found a '02 Silver Sparkle Jagmaster that still had the plastic on the pickguard for 125.00 at my local Guitar Center "SCORE"!!!

Now I just need to figure out what to replace those 'buckers with, I thinking of havin a pickguard made with a Strat style single coil set up so I'll have a Stratomaster or a Jazzocaster.

Acidhouse · 09-24-2010, 12:35 PM

I got this one at a yard sale last spring. My wife went yardsale'ing and saw a bunch of guitar equipment. I bought the guy out for about $240.00. The Jagmaster was $75 and I was told it didn't work. I feel pretty confident that I can get a guitar to play again. I cleaned it up, shot the electronics with "Dust Off" and found a that the ground wire had become unsoldered so I simply resoldered it back. I took this picture in the middle of cleaning it up. It has strings on it now. I thought about selling it figuring that I could make a decent profit on it but my wife won't let me and tells me it's the prettiest guitar I own. Since she is the one who found it, I am more than happy to keep it.

jakeisjake · 09-27-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Beach Bum Scott

I was really wanting a Jagmaster too but all my other guitars are the longer scale like my Strat then I read this....

"The Jagmaster was brought back into production in 2002-05, this time made in China and featuring a 25.5" neck (21 frets)."

A while back I found a '02 Silver Sparkle Jagmaster that still had the plastic on the pickguard for 125.00 at my local Guitar Center "SCORE"!!!

Now I just need to figure out what to replace those 'buckers with, I thinking of havin a pickguard made with a Strat style single coil set up so I'll have a Stratomaster or a Jazzocaster.

jazzmasters have the longer scale...and fender just released a line of them called blacktops that are $450...a little bit more than a jagmaster, but not much.

Muddslide · 10-02-2010, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Beach Bum Scott

A while back I found a '02 Silver Sparkle Jagmaster that still had the plastic on the pickguard for 125.00 at my local Guitar Center "SCORE"!!!

I really like those sparkle-finish Jagmasters. Wish I'd bought one when they were in production. I don't see 'em much any more.

Also, wanted to say I love your surf music/beach bum collection. Looks great on that wall. I've been on a huge surf kick the last couple of months.

MatthewK · 10-03-2010, 05:33 AM

Just to clear up the scale length issue:
- the early MIJ Vista series Jagmasters were 24" scale with a "proper" 24" neck (actually from leftover Jaguar parts)
- second series Jagmasters (MIC I think) are 25.5" scale like a Strat
- third series are 24" scale again, but this time using a conversion neck, so a 25.5" neck would bolt on
You can't put a standard 25.5" neck on the first Vista series ones, the bridge is in the wrong place and it won't intonate.

Muddslide · 10-03-2010, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MatthewK

Just to clear up the scale length issue:
- the early MIJ Vista series Jagmasters were 24" scale with a "proper" 24" neck (actually from leftover Jaguar parts)
- second series Jagmasters (MIC I think) are 25.5" scale like a Strat
- third series are 24" scale again, but this time using a conversion neck, so a 25.5" neck would bolt on
You can't put a standard 25.5" neck on the first Vista series ones, the bridge is in the wrong place and it won't intonate.

Thanks for that info. I had wondered which, if any, Jagmasters could take a 25.5" replacement neck. I knew some had come with that scale neck, but I have been considering trying to find a cheap (maybe used) Jagmaster and swapping out the neck...I thought it might cause problems with the intonation due to bridge placement.

Euthymia · 10-07-2010, 05:21 AM

Looks like we have a lot of silver sparkles in here. This is Lux Interior, my 2002 Jagmaster. The electrical tape stripes are supposed to be temporary until I can do something better. I put a DiMarzio PAF in the bridge and a Seymour Duncan PAF-esque thing in the neck.

Muddslide · 10-07-2010, 05:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Euthymia

This is Lux Interior, my 2002 Jagmaster.

What a great tribute as far as the name goes. I miss Lux Interior every day (RIP.)

With the possible exception of Iggy, he was the greatest frontman ever in rock and roll. IMO, of course.

Beach Bum Scott · 10-07-2010, 03:24 PM

Thanks Muddslide!!!
Thats one of the walls of my Tiki Bar basment.

If your diggin the Surf sound check out surfguitar101.com.

Robbmonster · 10-08-2010, 12:05 PM

Here is 'Big Bursta'

The mods:

Swapped out the bridge pickup (which I simply did not like) and repleced it with a bridge pickup from a Squier Tele Custom.

The middle pickup is a neck pickup from a Squier 51. One day I might replece it with a gold Lace Sensor or a GFS Pro Tube Lipstick pickup.

Replaced the toggle switch with a 3-way rotary switch from a Squier 51 and added an old chicken head knob.

Replaced the caps with Orange Drops.

There was meant to be a second tone pot added, with the combo meaning the first one would handle the bridge pickup, and the second one would handle the middle and bridge pickups, but my luthier forgot to do it, and I had already been without the guitar for so long I decided not to press the matter...

Telepicker · 01-15-2011, 11:29 PM

Here's my Jag with GFS Retrotrons installed. I'm really liking the sound.

1935streetrod · 01-15-2011, 11:59 PM

Just got mine this week from a fellow member. It came with split coils on the humbuckers and sounds good. I'm already eyeballin' some GFS Pro-tube lipstick buckers, cause' I just can't leave em alone!

stratphobic · 01-16-2011, 12:20 AM

08 Jagmaster. kluson style tuners, rhythm circuit, DiMarzio super distortion, steel trem block and steel bridge saddles

Robbmonster · 01-16-2011, 02:29 AM

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Originally Posted by 1935streetrod

Just got mine this week from a fellow member. It came with split coils on the humbuckers and sounds good. I'm already eyeballin' some GFS Pro-tube lipstick buckers, cause' I just can't leave em alone!

Great looking Jag!

Is that a replacement pickguard? I've never seen one that look quite like that before.

GukkanGwnarkill · 01-23-2011, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ozboomer

Just something to keep in mind with a Jagmaster...

The scale length on a Strat, for example, is 25.5 inches (648mm)... but it's only 24 inches (610mm) on the Jagmaster; I tried playing a Jagmaster (and a Jaguar, for that matter) again recently... and having played Strats and Les Pauls for years, I just can't cope with the shorter scale length...

Just a thought...

I agree, I used to own a Mustang and it was the same way. I'm not sure of the scale length but it just seemed TINY!!

Robbmonster · 01-23-2011, 01:26 AM

Gotta agree. My hands are tiny little rat claws, but I once tried playing a Mustang and it was just incredibly uncomfortable. It's meant to suit kids and 'players with small hands' but it seems it's based more on what you are used to.

I've never have any problem with playability on my Jagmaster. Maybe something to do with the conversion neck.

Robb · 01-27-2011, 01:33 PM

Hi,

I first bought a Jaguar 1964 many years ago and I somehow couldnt plat that guitar,
something about the think vintage neck I guess and the crappy original trem bridge, so I sold the "thing" and then missed it's body shape and contour.

I missed it so much that this year I wandered around E-bay and I spotted this wonderful Jagmaster Vista series made in Japan from 1996 (the neck butt is actually stamped)
witch is to my opinion the best of both worlds, thin Japanese neck ,Strat bridge, silent
humbuckers and finally the shape I loved so much.

Here's a pic of my new old flame...

http://www.robbsend.com/pb/wp_018434c3/wp_018434c3.html
(you may click on the picture to view a larger image)

Robb

Hugh · 02-19-2011, 01:16 AM

Finally got one after like a year of gassin. Used 2010, but minty w/the film still on the pick guard. It was hanging next to a new one and the only way I could tell 'em apart was the price tag.

On the way home, my fuel pump went out on the truck lol. So my pups upgrade will have to wait. grr

billmag · 03-07-2011, 01:57 AM

Here's my completed project (just this weekend) - 2001 Silver Sparkle. Replaced the pickups with GFS Surf 90s which reqiured work on the pickguard (widening of the HB slots), added GFS flat metal pickup rings, reworked a GFS solid steel trem block to fit in the tremelo cavity, and added rolling string trees. Sounds and plays great!

Telepicker · 03-07-2011, 07:36 PM

Woot! Beautiful.
Did you retain the existing pots with those Surf 90's? I put some Surf 90's in mine but had to put in 250K pots to tame the beast. The 500K's were taking the paint off the walls.

1935streetrod · 03-07-2011, 07:56 PM

Just did the "Papa Joe" mod on my Jagmaster by installing a set of GFS Nashville humbuckers with split coils. I'm liking the look a sound much better!
Thanks for tip Papa Joe!

Beach Bum Scott · 03-07-2011, 07:58 PM

Very nice Billmag..
Those are the pu's I plan on switching to when I get around to it.

Didn't know I have to rework the pickguard but thats cool as I plan on putting a Strat middle between them anyway.

billmag · 03-07-2011, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Telepicker

Woot! Beautiful.
Did you retain the existing pots with those Surf 90's? I put some Surf 90's in mine but had to put in 250K pots to tame the beast. The 500K's were taking the paint off the walls.

Thanks. Yeah I left the 500Ks in there as recommended by GFS. Maybe down the road I'll put in a push-pull volume pot for the series pickup sound. That should definitely get add more sonic boom.