What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by hulakatt » Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:06 pm

javier-san wrote:
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hulakatt wrote:
Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:53 am
johnnysomersett wrote:
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See, I don't even consider a hardtail as a JM/Jag 😂

But, fuck rules
I just think a JM/Jag with a bridge like this looks like a dog without a tail.
Which can be very cute

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Of course! I just see it and expect it to keep going on a bit.
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by JackFawkes » Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:47 pm

What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?
Only a letter or two...
I'll show myself out :D

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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by Chippertheripper » Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:23 pm

I don’t know that I’m willing to make a hard rule as what qualifies as what anymore.
I have a pretty minimalist JM, with just a volume knob, a pickup switch, and a couple wide ranges.
I’d let anyone call it one or the other with no offense to either name.

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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by JSett » Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:40 pm

I think we all seem to be in agreement that the only definite requirement is the specific inclusion of Wide Ranges. Other than that, *cough*, fuck rules
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by tammyw » Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:56 am

I don't agree with that. I'll call any Jazzmaster with humbuckers a Jazzblaster, and I'm sure I've seen plenty of other people around here do the same in the past.
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by jvin248 » Wed Jun 22, 2022 3:35 am

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I'm wondering what the mix of pickups and switching you're including in the build?

I have a JazzmasterJunior -- single bridge chrome-covered humbucker with lightning wrap bridge.
It's a pine body, fabric top, with flamed-maple binding. When I build another, I'll use non-flamed-maple binding as the flamed grain cracked a lot during install even using steam bending techniques.


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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by JSett » Wed Jun 22, 2022 8:23 am

tammyw wrote:
Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:56 am
I'm sure I've seen plenty of other people around here do the same in the past.
I've mostly only ever seen people relatively new to the offset world using it for HH Jazzmasters (there may be exceptions). For the vast majority of people here I think they would attribute the term to a WRHB-equipped JM as per the original inventors of the modification and term.

Plenty of people can be wrong. But who cares? I do, a little, sure... I'll admit that. I think definitions shouldn't be so loose that they begin to lose their point entirely (which is to define something to someone else). A HH JM and a WRHB JM are two very different sounding guitars.
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by hulakatt » Wed Jun 22, 2022 1:07 pm

jvin248 wrote:
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I'm wondering what the mix of pickups and switching you're including in the build?
Novak JM-PAFs and traditional wiring. I really like and use the rhythm circuit a lot.
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by tammyw » Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:30 pm

johnnysomersett wrote:
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I've mostly only ever seen people relatively new to the offset world using it for HH Jazzmasters (there may be exceptions). For the vast majority of people here I think they would attribute the term to a WRHB-equipped JM as per the original inventors of the modification and term.

Plenty of people can be wrong. But who cares? I do, a little, sure... I'll admit that. I think definitions shouldn't be so loose that they begin to lose their point entirely (which is to define something to someone else). A HH JM and a WRHB JM are two very different sounding guitars.
I'm still going to side with the plenty of people you think are wrong, over the consensus of less than ten people chiming in on this thread. I don't think I've seen that vast majority expressing that position you assert, (and I do some serious lurking around here) but I could be wrong.

Also, I don't consider a WRHB that much different from other humbuckers in general. I have the new Fender CuNiFes, and I have the Ranaldo sig with the imitation WRHBs. I also have about 90% of the Seymour Duncan catalog, and plenty of others. Different humbuckers cover a huge breadth different tones, and WRHBs are just somewhere in there leaning in a particular direction.
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by beauzooka » Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:59 pm

WRHB + JM = Jazzblaster

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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by JSett » Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:21 pm

tammyw wrote:
Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:30 pm
Then we shall agree to disagree, like grown-ups :)
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by averic03 » Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:26 pm

s_mcsleazy wrote:
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i still consider a jagmaster as any jaguar/jazzmaster shaped guitars with a hardtail/strat trem. i consider a jazzblaster as a jazzmaster with widerange pickups. by my definition, my main drop d guitar is a jazzmasterblaster
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This is awesome, what is it? Is it a partscaster or some kind of squier/fender?

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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Tue Jun 28, 2022 2:13 am

averic03 wrote:
Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:26 pm
s_mcsleazy wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:04 pm
i still consider a jagmaster as any jaguar/jazzmaster shaped guitars with a hardtail/strat trem. i consider a jazzblaster as a jazzmaster with widerange pickups. by my definition, my main drop d guitar is a jazzmasterblaster
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This is awesome, what is it? Is it a partscaster or some kind of squier/fender?
it's one of the affinity jazzmasters (the older hardtail models)
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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by UlricvonCatalyst » Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:23 am

What I really want to know is what separates a Ghettoblaster from a Ghettomaster.

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Re: What separates a Jazzmaster from a Jazzblaster?

Post by sal paradise » Tue Jun 28, 2022 6:08 am

UlricvonCatalyst wrote:
Tue Jun 28, 2022 5:23 am
What I really want to know is what separates a Ghettoblaster from a Ghettomaster.
I’m not sure that’s a culturally appropriate word in this day & age
I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion?

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