Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Discussion of vintage Jazzmasters, Jaguars, Bass VIs, Electric XIIs and any other offset-waist instruments.
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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by rbrcbr » Wed Jan 19, 2022 10:23 pm

Yeah, seen that recently. Truly a bummer.

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by graceless » Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:26 pm

I paid...$3.5kUSD ...in April...for a 1965 in much better condition, off the wall at a guitar center. No way is a 3x hike justifiable for a couple years

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by cestlamort » Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:38 pm

graceless wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:26 pm
I paid...$3.5kUSD ...in April...for a 1965 in much better condition, off the wall at a guitar center. No way is a 3x hike justifiable for a couple years
but does your 1965 feature
a Brazilian rosewood fretboard, flat pole piece black bobbin pickups, a nitrate tortoise pickguard, and clay dot inlay on the fingerboard. With a particularly vibrant and saturated three-tone Sunburst finish, this guitar embodies golden era Fender quality, and will satisfy serious players and discerning collectors alike.

There's an unmistakable acoustic resonance and clarity with this Jaguar, and the warmth and string to string balance of the acoustic signal translates well through the pickups. The top of the line Fender model when introduced in '62, the Jaguar has a particularly wide range of tones available to the player, while living up to its reputation of being able to out-twang a Tele and deliver sparkling, glassy cleans like no other Fender can. This is also one of the warmest sounding Jaguars we've ever encountered, with a distinct breadth to the tone and heft in the bass register.
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That "heft in the bass register" is worth it alone.

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by andy_tchp » Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:43 pm

So it sounds like a Jaguar. Wow.
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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by Unicorn Warrior » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:50 pm

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by smjenkins » Thu Jan 20, 2022 7:50 pm

Sounds like some seriously hefty heft. $10k is a STEAL!

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:44 pm

cestlamort wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:38 pm
a rosewood fretboard, uncompensated pole piece pickups, a fake tortoise pickguard, and fibreboard inlay on the fingerboard. With a common three-tone Sunburst finish, this guitar is old

There's an jangly unplugged sound to this Jaguar, and the sound translates into the pickups thanks to physics. introduced in '62, the Jaguar has a wide range of tones available to the player, while living up to its reputation of being not as well-received as the Tele and able to deliver normal Fender cleans like this particular model was designed to do.
This is a bassy sounding guitar
Fixed it.
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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by cestlamort » Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:16 pm

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10 This is a one owner guitar. 
20 Until somebody buys it. 
30 This is still a one owner guitar. 
40 Goto 10
a 1982 joke for a 1962 guitar.

"Edgy humor from the dawn of the computer age, as may have been done on a TRS-80 personal computer... From the era of Oregon Trail, Taipan, and other games, this joke is as beige as the Apple Iic. You can almost hear the reverberations of the 20-sided dice rolling in the next room..."
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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by JSett » Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:20 pm

cestlamort wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:16 pm

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10 This is a one owner guitar. 
20 Until somebody buys it. 
30 This is still a one owner guitar. 
40 Goto 10
a 1982 joke for a 1962 guitar.

"Edgy humor from the dawn of the computer age, as may have been ended on a TRS-80 personal computer... From the era of Oregon Trail, Taipan, and other games, this joke is as beige as the Apple Iic. You can almost hear the reverberations of the 20-sided dice rolling in the next room..."
Like the old secondhand car joke:

One careful owner...

...and 5 others that didn't give a f*ck
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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by Tiny C » Fri Jan 21, 2022 12:45 pm

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:44 pm
cestlamort wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:38 pm
a rosewood fretboard, uncompensated pole piece pickups, a fake tortoise pickguard, and fibreboard inlay on the fingerboard. With a common three-tone Sunburst finish, this guitar is old

There's an jangly unplugged sound to this Jaguar, and the sound translates into the pickups thanks to physics. introduced in '62, the Jaguar has a wide range of tones available to the player, while living up to its reputation of being not as well-received as the Tele and able to deliver normal Fender cleans like this particular model was designed to do.
This is a bassy sounding guitar
Fixed it.
This is hilarious! I think I've gone from being really annoyed by M&M, to admiring them for the comedic value of their write-ups. It's like a Mad Libs book where every blank says "3-syllable adjective" underneath.

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by graceless » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:09 pm

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:44 pm
cestlamort wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:38 pm
a rosewood fretboard, uncompensated pole piece pickups, a fake tortoise pickguard, and fibreboard inlay on the fingerboard. With a common three-tone Sunburst finish, this guitar is old

There's an jangly unplugged sound to this Jaguar, and the sound translates into the pickups thanks to physics. introduced in '62, the Jaguar has a wide range of tones available to the player, while living up to its reputation of being not as well-received as the Tele and able to deliver normal Fender cleans like this particular model was designed to do.
This is a bassy sounding guitar
Fixed it.
this post is absolute hall of fame material

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by andy_tchp » Fri Jan 21, 2022 4:51 pm

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:44 pm
cestlamort wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:38 pm
a rosewood fretboard, uncompensated pole piece pickups, a fake tortoise pickguard, and fibreboard inlay on the fingerboard. With a common three-tone Sunburst finish, this guitar is old

There's an jangly unplugged sound to this Jaguar, and the sound translates into the pickups thanks to physics. introduced in '62, the Jaguar has a wide range of tones available to the player, while living up to its reputation of being not as well-received as the Tele and able to deliver normal Fender cleans like this particular model was designed to do.
This is a bassy sounding guitar
Fixed it.
Outstanding :)
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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by Mechanical Birds » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:23 pm

That is fucking criminal

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Re: Cheapest way into a vintage offset?

Post by rbrcbr » Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:43 am

johnnysomersett wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:44 pm
cestlamort wrote:
Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:38 pm
a rosewood fretboard, uncompensated pole piece pickups, a fake tortoise pickguard, and fibreboard inlay on the fingerboard. With a common three-tone Sunburst finish, this guitar is old

There's an jangly unplugged sound to this Jaguar, and the sound translates into the pickups thanks to physics. introduced in '62, the Jaguar has a wide range of tones available to the player, while living up to its reputation of being not as well-received as the Tele and able to deliver normal Fender cleans like this particular model was designed to do.
This is a bassy sounding guitar
Fixed it.
This is so fucking funny, I lost it at "the sound translates into the pickups thanks to physics" lmfaooooo

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