what shall be the new title? sppunk is around right now.

monkeyfritters, are you from japan or do you just buy japanese-fenders constantly?

maybe we should think of a really great new title before we change it

the sweater-guitar connection

and then we could start shooting a weekly public access TV show, too

Can we get some acoustic love?
http://www.acousticguitar.com/Media_...3-300-0206.jpg

I've played for about seven years but I'm basically self taught and haven't advanced as much as I should have in that time.

monkeyfritters i was wondering the same thing about the jag. i heard there are certain years for the japanese jags that are wired by hand and are actually very playable. outside of that i was looking at vintage pre cbs jags and i just cant afford it. hows it holdin up? hows it sound?

im down for that.
sounds good! mods can you change it to "The Sweater-Guitar Connection"?

i try to anyway

With the lace sensors it is an amazing guitar. Fender Japan builds better guitars than Fender USA post 1975 (mexico and korea are heinous) however japanese pickups and electronics are pretty lame. Jaguars need to be set up well and they need some little mods like the bar i added below the bridge to create more tension on the strings but once you set them up they are tough to beat.

my friend was housitting and i found this in the house. it had been totally abused and clearly hadnt been played in years. the strings were rusted over.
http://www.freedomguitar.com/images/...b-25012293.jpg

i think they stopped making them in the 60s so that thing must be worth a fortune. it still played like a dream too. it sounded incredible even with the rusted strings. i was this close to stealing it.

it sounds beautiful. the original japanese wiring was fairly shitty (although they did a great job adding shielding and grounding to the original jaguar design), I rewired my jaguar from top to bottom when I installed the laces. i would get a japanese jaguar... the pre CBS ones are too expensive and riddled with defects (most notably the pathetic bridge). plus, i think j mascis bought them all up already. those things are for collectors.

another friend of mine has a ripoff no-name brand jag, but he's made some slight adjustments to it (lowered the bridge, can't remember what else). he generally plays quieter stuff tuned a half step down, and it usually sounds pretty nice.

i think i might just end up buying a body and parts and putting a jag together myself. the old bodies and necks and stuff are hard to fit though and i cant find them anywhere. i just built a strat and its completely customized with a gibson humbucker, strat middle pickup and a hotrail in a fat strat set up. its all american parts and it only ended up costing around 450, which should have been the price of the pickups alone. i think thats the way to go these days when you cant ever tell what kind of wiring job theyre doing.

im excited to see noyens HH, those are beautiful

try to find an 80s squier japan on ebay. they were made in the exact same factories by the exact same workers using the exact same materials but since they say squier on the headstock they arent as collectable as the fender japans. that way you can get an amazing guitr and then just put in whatever pickups you like. thats what the other guitarist in my band did and his strat is sweet as shit.

wait a minute, that totally doesn't make sense at all. if all that was different is the head says squier instead of fender, why wouldn't they sell them all as fenders and make the extra $200+ per sale?

the fender logo only adds 200+ in todays market with collectors. back then fender japan was only for sale in japan and Squier japan (usually having "JV" on the neckplate/ in the serial number) was exported to places like europe.

because they weren't thinking right

also because made in japan fenders didn't really sell that well in comparison to american made, by which i mean they weren't really very demanded

the squier name hadnt been dragged through shit by the koreans at that point.

yeah korean squiers are the lowest of the low

do unto me now. what has been done to you

classical guitar i got when i was 17
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7...0214007bf8.jpg
acoustic art & lutherie
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/8...0214008fn9.jpg

ah so

you teh buckethead?

you bet! ;)

this thread title never got changed to "The Sweater-Guitar Connection" what the hell happend

I have sent out the request to higher ranks.

praying's not gonna help