ICONIC GUITARS JM ELEGANTÉ anyone heard about these yet?

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

Hey you all! Some of you may know about my obsession with double bound offsets... I saw a red one of these in a pedal-video but only the body - and after a week I finally got a hint which guitar it could be... it turned out to be an Iconic Guitars JM Eleganté. It seems to be brand new - it was introduced at NAMM 2019 so maybe some of who were there could catch a glimpse or even tried it out?!

Gold is not my kind of colour - nor is it red (like in the video) but they seem to make it right. At least the Block Inlays and the Mastery Bridge and Vibrato look very promising! ;-)

https://goo.gl/images/k1RPp6

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Why do guitar makers think people want the switch on the upper bout, when most of the history of the Jazzmaster involved trying to disable the switch on the upper bout? At the end of the day I'd be pretty whatever about it if it came on a guitar I was already into, but just... meh.

[timtam]

Found this demo ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RdG5TMISlM

Has newly-designed Porter pickups ...
https://iconicguitars.com/blogs/news/vi ... d-for-2019

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Why do guitar makers think people want the switch on the upper bout, when most of the history of the Jazzmaster involved trying to disable the switch on the upper bout?

Because that's where it is on a Les Paul.

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

Why do guitar makers think people want the switch on the upper bout, when most of the history of the Jazzmaster involved trying to disable the switch on the upper bout?

Because that's where it is on a Les Paul.

it totally depends where you're used to have it... Jazzmaster's position is okay for me to - but I was a Les Paul and Hagström Viking Player for many many years - and when it came to modding my newly acquired Jaguar - I put the toggle instead of the Rhythm switch...quite naturally -

1) because I tend to switch a lot in between pickups within a song - I tried to do those fast changes with the slide switches too... just wouldn't work nearly as good!
3) due to the limited space in the diamond plate's cavity (SD P-Rails require a lot of cables!)
3) surely also because it's where it is on the Les Paul

Every time I tried to play a Strat for instance - or the Ibanez and Yamaha counterparts that were available in our first rehearsal room back then (I was 16 or 17) - I always randomly switched in between positions because I found it stupidly placed...