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Thx very much for sharing. I'm currently at the same stage assembling a Jazzmaster body from Warmoth as your video. It has the exact same misalignment with the pickup cavaties as yours did. Luckily before finishing, I found a video on YT that pointed out the problem with the Warmoth JM bodies and was able to correct the cavity routs with a router. Getting to assembly with this problem fixed was a big relief. I applaud you wiring the electronics from scratch. After studying the circuits I elected to get a pre-wired harness from 920D. Thx again for sharing.

Im trying to lift my bridge ....and the alan key dont fit....is there a certain size...mine normally fits... any ideas people

My Jazzmasters trust rods are in the pick guard 😢

Great video, I shimmed and polished the neck and raised the bridge on my squire jazzmaster. I also raised my pick ups to where I liked it. It not only sounds great but also the fret action is way better.

I too found out the hard way regarding the Jazzmaster routing by Warmoth. Unfortunately I didn't know when I bought it during the sale this past Christmas. I am going to make the pickup routes bigger with a template I have ordered.

hey so i wanna build a jazz master too what size drill bit is needed for the pickup mounting i cant find anything on it

Seems your appinion to replace DIN connection nest to Jack is too fast. Espeshial cable may connect this guitar to the joystick port of your computer soundkard

Iván Rakitic

You ever get this thing working?

Great series, really helpful. Love the colour.

Always build your guitar before painting!

It's nice to see the Ruski's repurposed a garden gate spring into a tremolo spring. If it works, it works

The weird jack socket is a din plug socket. We used to use them quite a lot in the past in stereo systems to link parts together here in the UK

It is a blue/white sheel pickguard or it is black/white ?

thanks for this, was the capo also on for the action measurement on the 17th fret?

Thank you!

And this use to be the best Soviet guitar,

You did a great job on that guitar. It looks and sounds great.

Легенда ☝️

Nice!!

You should measure the neck relief rather in the playing position

Very good. It's worted to file the pivot plate. I did it with my squier 40th anniversary jazzmaster. All tuning issues went away and the whole system became death silent. It's not worse them the AVRI which is installed in my usa jazz

URAL must be like the Russian Yamaha. Makes bikes and guitars

If you treat stuff that's entrusted to you that badly, then you're a complete idiot.

If possible, always buy your pickguard from the same company that made the body. There are no real standards. Fender has parts made in a number of places and there are subtle variations even in their branded products.

Great job!

Making a lefty one, thanks

awesome i am building jaguar kit from china lovely wood amazing but i had to trem to fit the roller switch since the american pods r bigger compare to the chinese are really small no big deal the neck fits perfectly no shim needed upgrade the treomlo plate from wd music plus pickguard and bridge and pre wire harnesses from hoagland custom oh ya worth every nickel and wilikison humbucker pick ups plus vintage machine heads will be staining a root beer sunburst with a custom black pick guard from wd music my jazz master from solo a bust planning to upgrade it as well and i fix the damage neck zero customer service from solo stay away from that company keep on BUILDING

Wow dude, you got a rare unmolested specimen, except for the replaced tuners.. which is actually good, since the original tuners are just hands down unusable. You are lucky to have the internal electronics, no matter how weird it is, still in the original shape. At this time and age, not many of those guitars survived endless attempts to “improve” the internal wiring by eager teenage “experts” gutting the damn thing and replacing the pickups and everything else with some home brew abomination or another. I’d highly recommend to put the original DIN socket back and use a pigtail adapter instead to connect the guitar to an amp. The neck definitely needs some work and the truss rod on these usually does nothing, but if the neck is fixed and refretted carefully and properly, you’ll get a unique and interesting guitar.. no, it’s not your another Strat or Yamaha or anything else, and it’s not supposed to be. Make it playable and enjoy it for what it is. Search for some Soviet 60-70s music on youtube - that’s what this thing is for. Or maybe some American 40-50s music too.. Not your metal or shred stuff.

i like it mate would prefer it if you laminate your necks though i would buy one

mate make your necks with laminated wood it makes them more rigid if your not using a truss rod

Hi, I got my first JM recently and followed the instructions of this vid, so far everything was fine but yesterday while recording my high e string started playing same notes on different frets. Figured out it had something to do with the saddle / neck relief and now i regret adjusting the neck relief with the key that i got with the guitar. I didnt know how to fix it so i tried by tightening the screws on saddle but accidentally popped my high E string. So i thought that its not really a problem and i can replace my high E string later, as I didnt need it to finish the recording of the song. However during recording the same thing happened to B string. The saddle is slightly tilted and kinda more sinked in on the side thats closer to the circular tone and volume knobs. I found on reddit that I could lif the saddle up with my hands and put some duck tape on it so it doesnt sink in but im not sure wether to do that or not as I believe there is some tension thats making it sink into the bridge and the duck tape might help for a while but make something worse in the long run. I tried to lift the saddle up with hands and it seems like it just need a bit of leveling or like to put it in in a certain angle which I did, and it kinda worked and my B string doesnt play same notes on the frets anymore. However if I play the guitar with tremolo bar or even without it it slightly sinks in agan and tilts to the left again and the same thing repeats. Does this have something to do with the neck relief? If so, Is this fixable? I spent all my saved money for the JM, so I really hope this is fixable.. do you think so? Or do you think i overtightened the nut in the neck and its beyond home repair? I dont know anything about the guitar hardware diy fixes or anything do you think I need to find some guitar repair shop? Sorry for too many questions, but could you please help? I tried many forums but without any solutions... thanks in advance

Excellent job, sorry for my bad English, but, what's the name of the tool that you use with your drill to guide the hole straight?

Nice pickguard (and matching sheets!)

Great attempt at what must be one of the toughest solos out there

Great post. Thanks! (I put a StewMac neck shim in my Jazzmaster and got my action shredder low with no buzzing or fretting out. It's amazing!) 😃

Excellent build series. Bravo.

Great videos, super valuable insights into real life finishing. Well done. Your guitar looks amazing.

It turned out looking much better than I thought it would! Nice job 👍

Sick dude

do you set the nut?

Greetings from Jackson County Ohio. Great video!!

I really enjoyed your video. I hope you make more. You’re a natural when it comes to explaining things. Good job! Thanks

I'm getting ready to wire together an MJT Jazzmaster build and this helps. I like the idea of grounding the pickups to the jack instead of to the shielding in the body like in Fender's diagram. Question: Did you just solder the ground wire from the trem plate to the shielding in the cavity? I didn't see where you had connected the other end of that wire.

thanks for this video! I was looking to upgrade the circuit on my Squier Classic Vibe and this helped a lot, I really appreciate it!

You need too use a grain filler! Like bondo or apoxy

Это не только музыкальный инструмент но и оружие для ближнего боя.

Can you do a tutorial?

Thank you very much

Really helpful thanks man. Just bought my first JM and gonna give it a set up. Yours looks gorgeous. Great job 👏🏻