Fender Jazzmaster Traditional MIJ Pickguard

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Fender Jazzmaster Traditional MIJ Pickguard

Post by Sanguine » Sun Dec 22, 2019 10:26 am

Hello, good people!

After a year of heavy usage my scratchplate started to crack so I'm in for a new one.

Has anyone dealt with changing a pickguard on this particular series of MIJ jazzmasters (pink paisley or blue flower)?

P.S. I already tried one of them cheap Chinese pickguards supposed to fit Japanese Fender but it doesn't.
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Re: Fender Jazzmaster Traditional MIJ Pickguard

Post by ChrisDesign » Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:18 am

Sorry. I’ve only seen them on ali express, and they are worthless. Buy an American one and, if needed, drill new screw holes.
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Re: Fender Jazzmaster Traditional MIJ Pickguard

Post by timtam » Mon Dec 23, 2019 1:39 am

MIJ fits that specify that's what they fit are available (others say MIA only). Look for those providing hole-to-hole spacing diagram and check against what you have. Traditional JM may or may not be different to other MIJs.

You can also send a tracing of yours to custom pickguard vendors and they will tell you if the templates they work to will fit yours. Some will send you a scaled PDF to check.
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Re: Fender Jazzmaster Traditional MIJ Pickguard

Post by andy_tchp » Mon Dec 23, 2019 2:41 am

Allparts generally fits Fender Japan instruments.

American guards are a bear to fit properly; the thimble holes are placed differently (yes, really) and require quite a bit of elongation, and there are shape differences overall where the transition from the upper section to the thimbles is.

How bad is the crack? I'd be attempting a fix with superglue (and some very light wet-sanding if the join line is particularly obvious) given it's a paisley model - replacement guards are unobtainium for those AFAIK unless you luck out and find one on Stratosphere.
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Re: Fender Jazzmaster Traditional MIJ Pickguard

Post by MKR » Thu May 27, 2021 10:45 am

I want to resurrect this thread... Recently i came across a youtube video of a guy who swapped his blue flower pickguard with a mint green one. Looked good. I commented on his video asking a bit about the pickguard and he said he got it off reverb (stratosphere). This to me seems like a cheap jazzmaster pickguard should fit fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x62wc_1 ... Nqsm-e-duu

i don't know, but if anyone has any more clue about what type of pickguard fits these paisley / blue flower models, i would love to find out more.
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