'64 FENDER JAZZMASTER (SUNBURST)
   
Used by Thurston: 2003-2011

  • 2003 -- GABDEG (Teenage Riot, Sugar Kane)
  • 2004 -- F#F#F#F#EB (I Love You Golden Blue) & CGDGCD backup (New Hampshire)
  • 2005 -- F#F#F#F#EB (I Love You Golden Blue)
  • 2006 -- DD#A#D#GG (Incinerate, Rapture?, Sleepin Around, Jams Run Free, Pink Steam, Or)
  • 2007 -- DD#A#D#GG (Incinerate, Rapture?, Jams Run Free, Pink Steam, Or)
  • 2008 -- DD#A#D#GG (Incinerate, Rapture?, Jams Run Free, Pink Steam)
  • 2009 -- DD#A#D#GG or DDAF#AD backup (used for much of Seattle July '09 set when the green Jazz crapped out)
  • 2011 -- GABDEG (Sugar Kane, Teenage Riot)

    NOTES:

  • Following the theft of his black Jazzmaster in 2012, this has become Thurston's primary post-Sonic guitar.
  • '64 (or '65?) Fender Jazzmaster
  • Sunburst body
  • 2 soap bar pickups
  • Tortoise Shell pickguard
  • Rosewood fretboard
  • 1 toggle switch, rhythm circuits removed
  • 1 knob
  • Trem bar
  • Gauges for DD#A#D#GG: .052 .048 .036 .026W .017 .017

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