NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

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NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by smjenkins » Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:20 pm

Inspired by this 2011 OSG thread, I decided in 2016 that I needed a jazzbronita: viewtopic.php?t=49747.

I hit up cosmitron67 and he helped me find a pickguard. I then ordered a body from usacg and it took over a year to get to me. When it arrived, the routing for the filtertron was way too big, like 3mm of extra space around the entire thing. I knew if I built it up with a TV Jones pickup it would look weird and always bug me. I didn't know what to do, so I sat on it for a long, long time. About two and a half years ago (still pre-covid), I saw that mojo pickups had a surface mount version of their dual foil pickups that would be the perfect solution. Now we're cooking! So I ordered a dual foil and a neck from Musikraft. Six months later I had all of the parts, but I couldn't find a place that would finish it. I was hoping to make it look like this navy blue metallic render from cosmitron67's blog:

https://neonderthalblog.wordpress.com/2 ... gercaster/

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Finally I found Joe Riggio who hit the perfect shade of metallic blue. The finishing process took another 6-months but finally, this guitar is assembled and is, IMO, the business.

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by RIORIO » Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:43 pm

Good lorddddd :wtf:

So nice!!

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by dc » Fri Jan 14, 2022 9:55 pm

that is badass 8)
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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by marqueemoon » Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:49 pm

Umm... wow.

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by GreenKnee » Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:43 am

Such a cool looking guitar, congrats! I'm a huge fan of the mojo goldfoils, enjoy!

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by IceBlueBoogaloo » Sat Jan 15, 2022 7:18 am

Wow, this is right in the ballpark of something I’ve been wanting to do. Such a cool build!

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by SignoftheDragon » Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:46 am

Simple. Bare. Beautiful.

Ever wonder what would happen if somebody took everything you loved about a guitar, and did the exact opposite? For me, it's this- and it's freaking glorious.

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by hexes » Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:18 pm

SignoftheDragon wrote:
Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:46 am
Simple. Bare. Beautiful.

Ever wonder what would happen if somebody took everything you loved about a guitar, and did the exact opposite? For me, it's this- and it's freaking glorious.
100%. i never use bridge pickups alone, don’t like telecaster esque headstocks, not crazy about hard tail bridges.

but i’d play the crap out of this. it’s beautiful.

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by algeriet » Sat Jan 15, 2022 2:28 pm

Woufff!! That bridge pickup looks so much better than the original idea. Also Riggio's finishing is top notch. I'd love to try one of his guitars someday. His Instagram is filled with good stuff.

Amazing guitar and I'm happy you've finally got it all together as one.

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Post by Maggieo » Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:29 am

Damn! :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by kamillebidan » Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:30 pm

Nice! Did you wire up the dual foil for splitting too or just keeping it nice and full? Great looking and utilitarian, love it.

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by hulakatt » Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:11 pm

That's a monstrously large pickup!
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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by CROSS_guitars » Sun Jan 16, 2022 6:22 pm

Needs white competition stripes right down the middle.

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by PixMix » Sun Jan 16, 2022 9:09 pm

Sooo good! Amazing! I have been wanting to start a single pickup build for ever, this is really inspiring!

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Re: NGD: Jazzbronita, five years in the making

Post by smjenkins » Tue Jan 18, 2022 8:46 pm

Thanks for all the kind words folks. After all the shenanigans, I'm happy with how well it came out.
kamillebidan wrote:
Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:30 pm
Nice! Did you wire up the dual foil for splitting too or just keeping it nice and full? Great looking and utilitarian, love it.
Nope. Just straight up volume and tone on those two pots.

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