NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by Arthon » Fri Feb 24, 2017 5:33 am

enkindler wrote:As an update I like the bridge and will just use that guitar as is, and I am very happy with it.

On a side note the loaner black Jazzmaster was traded for as my friend never plays it. I wanted a hotter pickup for some of my fuzz pedals so I am building up a Loller jazzmaster P90 pick guard for it and started a thread on the mods sub forum to track it.

Some may be sacrilegious to modify a custom shop guitar, but everything I am doing is reversible and so far it sounds awesome but it will need some tone stack changes to really shine.

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by mcjt » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:47 am

I think Fender spied on OSG back in the day.... here's another one on eBay--

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by 2after909 » Fri Feb 24, 2017 4:37 pm

Congrats. Lovely guitars. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems to me that even moderate trem use might cause the strings to saw right through those big brass saddles on the rsd bridge.

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by tammyw » Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:35 pm

Well, it's still a rocking type bridge, so it should move with the strings rather than the strings rubbing back and forth over it.
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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by mackerelmint » Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:37 pm

Oh! The rsd bridge. Why not just jab a stick in my eye, fender?
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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by mekhem » Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:54 pm

I had a chance to play one of these today and :w00t: wow was it a good Jazzmaster. Dead quiet, i mean completely hum free. Great pickup separation and usable volume and tone sweeps*. Not sure I care for the black pickup covers though.

The RSD, as mentioned, is really good for palm mutes and maybe it helps with sustain (What are we doing with all this sustain?) but notes and strings just leap out. I am trying to swing a way to A/B it with the FCS "L series" Jazzmaster I have to compare the sound and feel but well see about that.

One thing I noticed right away - It is a very bright sounding guitar, I am going to say maybe even Tele like in the bridge position. Not sure if that's the wood, this pickup or the RSD bridge, likely a combo of all 3, but that is one thing that just pops.


* I don't have the term to describe it seems to be opposite normal tone behavior. Normal being that 80 percent of your tine sweep is between 10-7 on the sweep and very little change after that. This felt opposite in that it was small adjustments from 10-4 and a big drop from 4-1. Wired wrong maybe but you can contain the brightness of the bridge pickup.

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by krossfader » Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:37 pm

These are without a doubt my favorite-looking guitar currently on sale. I'm curious about the neck - is it a "baseball bat" JM or something slimmer?

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by mekhem » Mon Mar 06, 2017 7:18 pm

krossfader wrote:These are without a doubt my favorite-looking guitar currently on sale. I'm curious about the neck - is it a "baseball bat" JM or something slimmer?
Slimmer - AV62 sized. .820 - .980 (1st - 12th)

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Re: NGD: FCS Limited Edition 1958 Jazzmaster

Post by cmd2kx » Mon May 21, 2018 4:34 am

mekhem wrote:
Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:54 pm
I had a chance to play one of these today and :w00t: wow was it a good Jazzmaster. Dead quiet, i mean completely hum free. Great pickup separation and usable volume and tone sweeps*. Not sure I care for the black pickup covers though.

The RSD, as mentioned, is really good for palm mutes and maybe it helps with sustain (What are we doing with all this sustain?) but notes and strings just leap out. I am trying to swing a way to A/B it with the FCS "L series" Jazzmaster I have to compare the sound and feel but well see about that.

One thing I noticed right away - It is a very bright sounding guitar, I am going to say maybe even Tele like in the bridge position. Not sure if that's the wood, this pickup or the RSD bridge, likely a combo of all 3, but that is one thing that just pops.


* I don't have the term to describe it seems to be opposite normal tone behavior. Normal being that 80 percent of your tine sweep is between 10-7 on the sweep and very little change after that. This felt opposite in that it was small adjustments from 10-4 and a big drop from 4-1. Wired wrong maybe but you can contain the brightness of the bridge pickup.

I have the same run jazzmaster and found it to be supremely bright! The bridge is brighter and twangier than any tele I've ever played, I do wonder if the RSD Bridge and or Ash body have anything to do with it. The tone knob sweep is the most useable one I've ever come across. With most guitars I keep the tone knob open - with the CS 58 Jazzmaster I find myself keeping the tone knob at 50% most of the time; even when using the neck pickup!

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