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Thanks, Brian. My main experience with the JMs and Jags is with the
Japan Reissues, so thanks for pointing out the erroneous info on the
JMs hum-cancelling capabilities.
Yes, the Victorias are sooooper expensive, but they claim to be
faithful to the tweed-era Fenders in terms of components and
point-to-point wiring. They often come up on EBay for reasonable
amounts, althought the reverberatos are mucho expensive.
I found a Holland Amps distributor in Denver and hope to test drive
these amps soon...a full report with appear one day. Very reasonable
for hand-wired boutique amps.
Gavin
--- In , "Brian Neal" <bneal@z...> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gavin Ehringer [mailto:gavinehringer@m...]
> ...
> > the JMs were a little noisier due to their broad pickups
> > and lack of hum-cancelling. Both have "issues" i.e. bad bridge design,
> > a trem that can only be used lightly, and of course, they are
> > expensive and hard to find.
>
> Well I believe JM's are a bit more noiser than say a Strat, but they
do have
> hum-cancelling abilities when you have both pickups on. They neck
and bridge
> pickups are reverse-wound/reverse polarity compared to each other.
They also
> have extensive shielding under the pickguard. Note that this is NOT
true for
> the Japanese reissues (at least the ones from the late 80's to
90's). They
> had narrow strat-like pickups hiding in those wide pickup covers and
both
> neck and bridge pickups were identical.
>
> >
> > A lot of people talk about Mosrites. The true vintage ones are very
> > expensive, as collectors like them. The fact that the Ventures quit
> > using them after their contract with Mosrite ended makes me believe
> > they weren't so hot.
>
> True, they went back to Fender. However Nokie Edwards does play a
Mosrite
> signature guitar these days. It (Bob) Boggles my mind that a company in
> Japan bought the Mosrite name and is cranking out guitars to feed the
> massive demand of Japanese Venture fans.
>
> > Several boutique amp companies make
> > great re-creations of these early amps: Victoria and Holland are
> > especially good. Fender's reissues also get high marks.
>
> Man those Victorias are expensive! Are they worth it? I saw a Victoria
> reverb unit that was something like $1000 plus some change. True it
also had
> tremolo, but jeez...I paid $235 for my Fender reissue unit.
>
> Nice post Gavin!
>
> Someone also mentioned the Reverend Spy. This looked to me like a cool
> guitar, and I think Ferenc has one...? Ferenc? However I don't think
> Reverend makes them anymore.
>
>
>
> Get a guitar you like and can afford. I would look for:
> * single coils
> * a trem system
> * get some heavy strings on it (try some flatwounds)
> * mucho reverb (okay this isn't a guitar feature)
>
> Let us know what you get!
>
> BN
