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Drive your sound with raw humbucking power with the sleek and supercharged Blacktop Jazzmaster HS electric guitar. Delivering a wide array of rich and aggressive tones for any playing style, the high gain humbucking pickup meets the demands of today's guitarist.
Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster HS Electric Guitar Special Features
- Humbucking/Single Coil Pickup Configuration
- Simplified Controls/Switching
- Black Skirted Amp Knobs
Featuring a single-coil Jazzmaster neck pickup and a humbucking bridge pickup (both Duncan Designed), skirted black amp knobs, a Jazzmaster tremolo tailpiece and a lean control layout which features a tonally convenient single three-way toggle switch. Other features include an alder body, maple neck with 9.5 inch radius rosewood fretboard, 21 medium jumbo frets, gloss polyester finish and chrome hardware.
Fender Blacktop Jazzmaster HS Electric Guitar Specifications
- Body: Alder
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Plate: Vintage Style 4 Bolt
- Nut Width: 1.650 inches (42 mm)
- Scale Length: 25.5 inches (648 mm)
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Radius: 9.5 inch Radius (241 mm)
- Frets: 21, Medium Jumbo
- Position Inlays: White Dot Position Inlays
- Neck Finish: Gloss Urethane
- Pickguard:
- 3 Color Sunburst: 3-Ply Black
- Black: 3-Ply Mint Green
- Pickup Configuration: Humbucking/Single Coil
- Bridge: 1 Duncan Designed Humbucking Pickup
- Neck: 1 Duncan Designed Single-Coil Jazzmaster Pickup
- Controls: Master Volume, Master Tone
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Toggle:
- Position 1. Bridge Pickup
- Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups
- Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Bridge: Vintage Style Adjustable 6-Saddle Bridge
- Tailpiece: Floating Tremolo Tailpiece
- Hardware: Nickel/Chrome
- Straplocks: Vintage Style Strap Buttons
- String Nut: Synthetic Bone
- Switch Tip: Black Switch Tip
- Tremolo Arm/Handle: Vintage Jaguar/Jazzmaster Tremolo Arm
- Tuning Machines: Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
- Truss Rod Nut: 3/16 inch Adjustable Hex Nut
- Strings: Super 250L's, NPS (.009-.042 Gauges)
- Control Knobs: Skirted Amp Knobs
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| Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? |
| This was my first Mexican Fender product, and I have been surprised how nice it is. Everything feels solid and looks great. My stock bridge was crappy, though, so I changed it. |
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| How has it stood up over time? |
| I have had it about 1 1/2 years. I wouldn't expect any issues. |
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| Your general opinion of this product. |
| The one -- and only -- thing that has been a problem with the Jazzmaster is the stock bridge. The strings didn't sit well on it and it just felt kind of cheap. I changed it to a modified Mustang bridge from Warmoth, and it made this one of my go-to guitars. |
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| Playability and Feel |
| How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? |
| The neck feels like a typical Strat to me (which is a good thing). The controls are simple and effective. The volume knob is far enough away that I don't hit it by accident when I'm playing. I'd rather have the toggle in a Gibson-like position (like my JA-90 Tele), but that's just personal preference. |
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| Tone |
| Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? |
| The sound surprised me. The neck pickup is articulate and full, the bridge humbucker has more drive. I have about 20 guitars and I was trying different ones to find the right sound for a new band. When I brought the Jazzmaster, the band agreed, right from the first song, that this was the right guitar. I often change the pickups on my guitars -- not on this one, though. |
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| How did the stain or paint job look? |
| It's a good-looking guitar. I have the sunburst. Mine was a B-grade because of a little sloppiness on the headstock finish, but no one but me has ever noticed (and it took me a little while to find the blemish), so I'd expect the full-priced ones to be pretty good. |
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| How was the action out of the box? |
| Mine was playable out of the box, but I always tweak my guitars. |
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