OTM Jazzmaster is here to stay...
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OTM Jazzmaster is here to stay...
I took the plunge on the 1999 CIJ I posted about before. Sure enough it's not Sherwood Green but has all of the charm, and some.
A bit more bangs and bumps than I'd normally appreciate, though I always like to play the heck out of a well set up Jazzmaster instead of babying one. Indonesian guy with a few too many expensive instruments sold it too me, and wouldn't budge on the price (a tad steeper than I normally would have paid for a used CIJ instrument), but I figured an OTM Jazzo with very little fret wear is enough of a rarity to warrant a minor splurge that I could justify with the selling of a few others in the collection. I shimmed the neck up five business cards thick and tweaked the bridge a bit, and the funky saddles/bridge are doing much better than I had anticipated. SD Antiquity IIs are being contemplated as the primary switchout, as I want this guy to sound a lot different from the ol' trusty sunburst, which is practically overwound P90ish in character with those tall Strat bobbins underneath the covers pumping out 13.5k ohms of angry jingle jangle.
Put on the "old sweaty t-shirt" formerly white guard that's been sitting around, and despite its shrinkage that made fitting around pickups a bit of a shoehorn job, it looks much nicer than the all-too-white guard it came with. I have a feeling that both red tort and gold anodized will be just as charming in its stead.
More to follow, blurry iPhone picture collage for now...
A bit more bangs and bumps than I'd normally appreciate, though I always like to play the heck out of a well set up Jazzmaster instead of babying one. Indonesian guy with a few too many expensive instruments sold it too me, and wouldn't budge on the price (a tad steeper than I normally would have paid for a used CIJ instrument), but I figured an OTM Jazzo with very little fret wear is enough of a rarity to warrant a minor splurge that I could justify with the selling of a few others in the collection. I shimmed the neck up five business cards thick and tweaked the bridge a bit, and the funky saddles/bridge are doing much better than I had anticipated. SD Antiquity IIs are being contemplated as the primary switchout, as I want this guy to sound a lot different from the ol' trusty sunburst, which is practically overwound P90ish in character with those tall Strat bobbins underneath the covers pumping out 13.5k ohms of angry jingle jangle.
Put on the "old sweaty t-shirt" formerly white guard that's been sitting around, and despite its shrinkage that made fitting around pickups a bit of a shoehorn job, it looks much nicer than the all-too-white guard it came with. I have a feeling that both red tort and gold anodized will be just as charming in its stead.
More to follow, blurry iPhone picture collage for now...
Glad you guys like it. A quick online search (I'm so new to this color) yielded a zillion poasts on OSG (a hearty tsk, benecol!) and with that everything that looks like every combination and variant of LPB & SGM.
And yeah, the "week old underpants" blotchy yellow tint of the older guard really complements the oceany goodness of the thing, and the matching headstock linked by the rosewood board is really a nice touch to see in person.
Earlier in the day I put the gold anodized guard on and it really looks different to my eyes with changes in light (really can't tell if I like it or not yet). Gonna do a rooftop glamor shot sometime tomorrow morning when I get to work As for the non-aesthetic side of things, so far I'm the most surprised how nice that 10-46s feel/sound with the neck shim, although I'm very much used to banging chords out like a madman on 11-49s. This thing be a keepah either way.
And yeah, the "week old underpants" blotchy yellow tint of the older guard really complements the oceany goodness of the thing, and the matching headstock linked by the rosewood board is really a nice touch to see in person.
Earlier in the day I put the gold anodized guard on and it really looks different to my eyes with changes in light (really can't tell if I like it or not yet). Gonna do a rooftop glamor shot sometime tomorrow morning when I get to work As for the non-aesthetic side of things, so far I'm the most surprised how nice that 10-46s feel/sound with the neck shim, although I'm very much used to banging chords out like a madman on 11-49s. This thing be a keepah either way.
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More Chinese sand in the air means hazy sunshine and odd color tones, depending on the angle.
Gold anodized guard with the greenish blue in the sunlight looks kinda weird too, like I'm going to suddenly sprout a flannel shirt and indie-beard from my unsuspecting pores. Offwhite guard likely to go back on, but it's not like I have a show to impress folks with in the next six months
More Chinese sand in the air means hazy sunshine and odd color tones, depending on the angle.
Gold anodized guard with the greenish blue in the sunlight looks kinda weird too, like I'm going to suddenly sprout a flannel shirt and indie-beard from my unsuspecting pores. Offwhite guard likely to go back on, but it's not like I have a show to impress folks with in the next six months