Ha! I year you. I just played this one yesterday after tinkering with the pickup height a bit and I think I’ve finally achieved both good balance and great tone for both pickups at the same time. If anything, that neck humbucker is rolling its eyes at the number of Stones tunes I keep playing!
Post pictures of your Jazzmaster/Jaguar/Mustang with Alternative Pickups
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Stones tunes - I should have known! HB neck and Tele bridge... It's a combo I have in my Customaster
Thought I posted about it in this thread already, but I found on that guitar that a treble bleed on the neck pickup bole control was absolutely the key both to unlocking single-coil tones, and to balancing the pickups
Thought I posted about it in this thread already, but I found on that guitar that a treble bleed on the neck pickup bole control was absolutely the key both to unlocking single-coil tones, and to balancing the pickups
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CME limited edition Olive Player JM. Oiled the hell out of the pau ferro fretboard to darken it up and dropped in a jazzblaster conversion pickguard I had laying around. The olive looks sharp with mint.
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i think this is cool as fuck BUT the mint looks a bit odd to me. but at the same time, the only other colour pickguard would work would be matte black and then you'd be getting into military cosplay territory
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I agree that mint on a green guitar can look weird. It's almost like it's creamier / whiter since the typical green contrast isn't there. My pciture doesn't do a great job of capturing the actual look of the body and pickguard color in-person. This pic of an olive Tele with a mint guard from Reverb is more accurate to what it looks like IRL.
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Agree 100%. I think that's a fantastic look/configuration.
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Looks badass! Did you have to do any rerouting of the body to get it to fit WRHB pickups? I have a CME sunburst JM and was considering converting it to a jazzblaster. Thanks!
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I did not route the body but....
I got a conversion jazzblaster pickguard that had the neck pickup moved towards the bridge to accomodate WRHBs with standard JM routes. That said, I did not anticipate that the WRHBs and their mounting screws would require a deeper pickup pocket. So, I took out the dremel and cut off the extra screw length below the pickup. This got the guitar assembled and the bridge pickup was at about the right height. The neck was still too high so I used the adjustable pole pieces to move the magnetic field further from the strings. Not going to lie, it's a bit hacky.
Here's the reverb shop I got the pickguard from. Send him a message if you want a pickguard like I used here.
https://reverb.com/shop/neagle-luthier
I got a conversion jazzblaster pickguard that had the neck pickup moved towards the bridge to accomodate WRHBs with standard JM routes. That said, I did not anticipate that the WRHBs and their mounting screws would require a deeper pickup pocket. So, I took out the dremel and cut off the extra screw length below the pickup. This got the guitar assembled and the bridge pickup was at about the right height. The neck was still too high so I used the adjustable pole pieces to move the magnetic field further from the strings. Not going to lie, it's a bit hacky.
Here's the reverb shop I got the pickguard from. Send him a message if you want a pickguard like I used here.
https://reverb.com/shop/neagle-luthier
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Thanks for the insight! Sounds intimidating given my limited skills… If you had photos of your process, I’d love to see them. The finished product looks great!
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Silly Rabbit, don't you know scooped mids are for kids?
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It's been a while, but I think I had to route out just a bit where the humbucker mounts went into the body.
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Bootstrap Luke Surfer in the neck and Extra Crispy in the bridge.