how good are jagmasters?
 

Okay, I want a JAZZMASTER, but the cheapest one I've found was like $800. So, I'm going to go ahead and say no to that.

But I can get a new Jagmaster for $250... is it worth getting? I'm currently using a Squire Strat and I thought it was a good guitar until I picked up a Jazzmaster. Obviously, a Jagmaster is a lesser model, but I'm just looking for something with a good clean sound with a lot of flexibility and ease of use...

Any thoughts on this....

they're alright. i would buy it if i were you.

I guess if people were wondering about my playing style, I tremolo pick a lot, play lots of single notes, just generally play really fast... I want a guitar that is easy to hold and bend the strings around and make fucked up noises on... haha. That's all.

Oh, a problem with the fake Strats is that it goes out of tune REALLY easily... not even when I'm using the whammy bar.. just playing a few riffs really fast on a single string will make it go out of tune... meh.

yeah, it'll work.

I always thought Jagmasters looked really naff. Accept no substitutes for a Jazz/Jag, is all I'm saying, just because a guitar looks like them doesn't mean it'll be any good.

Adam:
You are in a semi-successful band. Surely you can gig a bit more and get a Jazzmaster? No compromises, dude!

Hahaha. Well I have $9000 in the bank so it's not that I don't have any money. I just am a cheapass, haha.

Wire us some :|
I'm getting all of Hot Water Music's albums on LP while they're still existing.

fuck that, get an SX SJM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SX_SJM

http://www.rondomusic.com/product1024.html

SX SJM... sounds intriguing. Thanks!

I'd rep... but I've spread too much in 24 hours as USUAL.

I wish jazzmasters weren't so pricey.

adam, i think a jagmaster would do fine for what you want to do with it. Its less sensitive than jazz/jags and i guess the pickups are better for what youre looking at.

I'd be more supportive of the Jagmaster if it had a Jazzmaster style trem and pickups.

i offer you a beat to hell barely working jazzmaster for $600 plus ridiculous shipping costs.






....no. i'm kidding. you can't have my guitar.

i wouldn't because the squier trem hardware would really suck and it wouldnt even be worth a replacement. I can barely handle my CIJ trem and stop it from breaking.

my friend just got a jazzmaster, you can play anything on it and it sounds sweet, even when my mate turned the reverb effect on his amp to full. Surely you have to get a jazzmaster in your guitar collection, especially with all that money in the bank.

I have a Jagmaster, it's my main guitar... I love the shit out of it. And for the record, I play fast too with my band... not so much single notes, but it's so fuckin' playable. Really fun (and awesome sounding) guitar... I'd say do it, I can't really think of anything wrong with the guitar. Actually, that it goes out of tune easily with the whammy bar is a bit of a bummer, but I got past that. I don't use it often, anyway, only to make fucked up sounds.

Hmm.

I think I'll go with the SX SJM actually. It's $100 cheaper. ;)

ONE DAY, I'll upgrade to a great guitar.

buy a american deluxe strat with deluxe mechanics, these bastard never get out of tune! not kidding, NEVER no matter how hard you hit it, even with the whammy bar at full force

you bitch, if I had $9000 in the bank it'd be gone tomorrow and I'd be dead.

haha.

I am saving to eventually buy a decent house.

And honestly for living at home and not having too many bills and working for 3 years, that's a pretty small sum of money :(

living at home means: by your parents?

I live with my mom and stepdad, yes.

I pay to live here but it's not as much as like renting an apartment or house...

yeah for sure, but didnt you mentioned you wanna sell a house???

I own a house my aunt left me when she died but it's a shithole and it's currently being rented out. I'm going to sell it as soon as those people move out.

you could go live in that house you wanted to sell/rent/whatever

Roof's falling in, no furance, sewage system needs replaced, bug infestation..... and it's being rented out currently.

Though I think they're moving out by winter because of the no furnace thing.

i've lived in worse. suck it up, sonny.

tha sounds like pure punk rock! do it, now :)

I actually considered buying on of those SX guitars. The jazz/jag looking model can be had for about $150ish on ebay and the strat/tele models about $100. They seem to be good for the price.

compared to the prices here you get the crappiest guitar ever for that price
seems to be the best time to import one

it's selling for about €150 here, i am going to check it as well.

you cant expect much of it then...

get a used guitar. dont ever buy new.

used guitars are cheaper and sound better. usually play better too.

jazzmasters are awesome. But so are mustangs. Jazzmasters/mustang+bigg muff=sex. as in immaculate conception sex.