Squier Jagmaster Project

[Mr Bob]

Just completed some upgrades on my Jagmaster, a Chinese 2nd series with longer scale neck.

Have had this one for a few years and decided it was time for a few changes, so it went from this

to this...

Upgrades as follows:

• Bridge sadles swapped out for solid block units
• Pickups replaced with Entwistle HV-58 alnico humbuckers
• Custom made mint green scratchplate
  
• Coil tap for both pups on push-pull volume knob
• series/parallel switch on push-pull tone knob
• Orange drop cap

 

[SoCalJim]

Very cool offset!

 

[Mr Bob]

While it was apart, noticed there was no shielding at all on the massive body cavity, so having lots of capper foil tape to hand I also did a full shielding job on the body cavity - started like this

Ended up like this...

Also gave the frets a polish and treated the fretboard to a few coats of walnut oil while it was stripped down.

 

[Mr Bob]

A couple more shots of the new look... just because you can never have too much candy apple red offset in your life...

 

[Mr Bob]

Very cool offset!

Thanks - had everything except the scratchplate in my parts stash so win-win!

 

[strat_strummer]

Very nice, awesome job.

 

[grizzlewulf]

Very cool, good job! Pick guard looks great.

It's striking to me how similar these are stock to the Affinity HH Jazzmasters, the bridge/trem is about the only real difference. Not sure if the neck profile is super different. But it's the same concept otherwise...offset, 25.5 scale neck, humbuckers. Big swimming pool route.

 

[SteveP4172]

Just completed some upgrades on my Jagmaster, a Chinese 2nd series with longer scale neck.

Have had this one for a few years and decided it was time for a few changes, so it went from this

to this...

Upgrades as follows:

• Bridge sadles swapped out for solid block units
• Pickups replaced with Entwistle HV-58 alnico humbuckers
• Custom made mint green scratchplate
  
• Coil tap for both pups on push-pull volume knob
• series/parallel switch on push-pull tone knob
• Orange drop cap

Looks great, may I ask where you got the pickguard from ? The new mods looks fantastic, congrats !

 

[Mr Bob]

Looks great, may I ask where you got the pickguard from ? The new mods looks fantastic, congrats !

Thanks - the pickguard was from an e-bay seller earlpilanz who makes them to order.

 

[SteveP4172]

Thanks - the pickguard was from an e-bay seller earlpilanz who makes them to order.

Thanks for the link !!

 

[corn]

That looks great. The zebra hums go perfect

 

[Ginsly]

@Mr Bob - Lookin great! I have an '08-ish Jagmaster, and I'm finding it to be quite noisy for a humbucker-equipped guitar. Some of it is EMI in my environment, so I'm setting up to shield the cavity with copper tape like you did. Do you have any pictures of the underside of the pickguard? I take it you also covered that? I'm trying to do this correctly so it doesn't turn into an antenna for MORE noise! Ha.. Sounds like if you cover the underside of the pickguard with foil, the contact that is made when you secure the pots back on is enough to ground the shield- right? Thanks for any tips! I just found this forum, looks like I'll learn a lot.

 

[dpang2836]

@Mr Bob - Lookin great! I have an '08-ish Jagmaster, and I'm finding it to be quite noisy for a humbucker-equipped guitar. Some of it is EMI in my environment, so I'm setting up to shield the cavity with copper tape like you did. Do you have any pictures of the underside of the pickguard? I take it you also covered that? I'm trying to do this correctly so it doesn't turn into an antenna for MORE noise! Ha.. Sounds like if you cover the underside of the pickguard with foil, the contact that is made when you secure the pots back on is enough to ground the shield- right? Thanks for any tips! I just found this forum, looks like I'll learn a lot.

You like picking Old Forums?

 

[Ginsly]

You like picking Old Forums?

Don't know what you mean. I found this thread/forum while Googling about Jagmaster shielding.

 

[dpang2836]

Last Post was Jan 2021. You just need to look at the Date. I noticed you on another old Thread. Better to start a new one vs getting on one a year or 2 old.

 

[Ginsly]

This is the only thread I've posted on. My question is relevant to this exact thread, so why would I start a new one? Hopefully the OP will chime in, and if not I'll just start a new one. Reviving a year-old thread is no biggie. Now a 5 or 10 year old thread.. that's a different story. Thanks for your concern.

 

[Hadronic Spin]

This is the only thread I've posted on. My question is relevant to this exact thread, so why would I start a new one? Hopefully the OP will chime in, and if not I'll just start a new one. Reviving a year-old thread is no biggie. Now a 5 or 10 year old thread.. that's a different story. Thanks for your concern.

@Ginsly , don't sweat it, your golden.

By the way, welcome to ST! If you feel so inclined, hop over to New Member Introductions https://www.squier-talk.com/forums/new-member-introductions.12/ and introduce yourself. No worries if you don't, but if you do, we want pictures!

Regards

Jason

 

[Ginsly]

@Hadronic Spin - Thanks Jason, much appreciated! And @dpang2836 I totally get what you're saying. Once threads get buried they're kinda old news. Figured I'd give it a shot though.

 

[dpang2836]

No Problem! I got rid of the "Mad"! Jason will find you help. You won't get Lost here as much as "Other" Forum. Welcome here also!

 

[Ginsly]

No Problem! I got rid of the "Mad"! Jason will find you help. You won't get Lost here as much as "Other" Forum. Welcome here also!

Haha right on! Glad to be here!