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Dave W:
Have you ever thought about sharing your ideas and experience with
Jaguars/Jazzmasters with Fender and coming up with a better
mousetrap? Perhaps a Jaguar/Jazzmaster with some updated features
for the new century? All the ingredients are there: you work for
Fender, you play Jaguars, and you are a gear head's gear head. I'd
buy one in a heart beat :)
The Super Turbo Deluxe Dave Wronski Slackmaster!
Merry Christmas!
BN
--- In , dave wronski <stickmandw@y...>
wrote:
>
> All US reissue Jazzmasters have 2 or 3 shims. Jags up
> to four shims. The reason Jags have more is to get the
> height to clear the mute. If you take the mute off,
> you can lower the bridge, and remove some shims. The
> neck pockets are too deep on these reissues, I've set
> up probably hundreds of them, and it's just the way
> they are.
> When you decide how many shims to use it will be
> determined by first having the saddles high enough so
> the strings clear the back of the bridge. The strings
> cannot hit the intonation screws, it will rattle. If
> you don't use a Buzzstop, you need to get the bridge
> up
> high enough to get a little bit of back pressure
> against the saddles. I think Buzzstops are needed on
> all my guitars, except my '63 Jag for some reason. If
> you use a Buzzstop, the ultimate thing to do is
> replace the three round head screws on the tailpiece
> with flat headed screws so the strings will not hit
> the screws. You must first counter bore the holes to
> fit these, and
> use a bit that will not cause the chrome to peel.
> Lack of sustain is caused by loss of energy in the
> movement of the string due to rattle.
> -dave
> >
> > Just for the record, my US Jaguar had 2 shims.
> > I'm actually thinking about taking mine out. I think
> > the shims are for
> > light string gauge players. I've got 12's on the
> > Jaguar, and the angle
> > over the bridge is so steep already that the strings
> > were hitting the
> > back of the intonation screw heads (before I
> > reversed the bridge). I
> > wonder if you would notice a change in the
> > tone/sustain if they were
> > removed?
> >
