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Just got this little (and I mean little) beauty this week \ud83d\ude42
\nI’ll never buy a strat, but I’ve been eying JM \/ Jags for over a year. Most of the ones I consider are big money – big money for me.
\nI discovered the 1532T about a year ago in old catalogs. I love the more extreme offset shape compared to Leo’s original JM and Jaguar designs.<\/p>\n
After getting the guitar I discovered the pickups and hardware and maker are the same for the Epiphone ET270 made in Japan and the 1803T Japan.<\/p>\n
I don’t know anything at all about these pickups. I can’t really find anything aside from them being ‘single coil’ or ‘Trapezoid”. I even found a 70s Aria catalog that says single coil only.<\/p>\n
So far I am 4 hours from my amp so can’t plug it in.
\nWhat I can tell you is this: It weighs nothing. Lightest guitar in my collection (14) by a landslide. Thinnest as well. It’s only listed as 1+ 1\/8″ thick by Aria catalog. That even seems generous.
\nAlso Aria catalog page lists it as 24.75″ scale as do some online people but it isn’t – it’s 23.6″ nut to saddle so very very short. I play mostly 24.75″ scale and this is a very noticeable adjustment.
\nOn to the neck. It’s lacquered beautifully and feels good for moving the fretting hand on it’s surface. It’s a thin neck, thinner than I would ever prefer, but it’s also not thin \/ flat like an Ibanez or Jackson but has a little contour in it like a very thin soft V almost shape if that makes any sense.<\/p>\n
With the very short scale and the super low action of the strings as I got it, it makes fretting the string the easiest action I’ve ever seen and effortless. It has a open – about fret 8 or 9 buzz on the G string but other than that no other buzzing. I think perhaps the 9th fret could be too high??? – Fixable with filing??<\/p>\n
In photos I’d seen the headstock looks plain stupid to my eye. JM and Jags looks more beefy and better. But in person it actually looks quite nice. This is not a big guitar overall. In photos it looks bigger visually. So far I am quite happy with it. I’m not sure it will become a daily player as I have the heavyweight champ neck thru Washburn A20V which is the finest guitar I own and I think may ever own, but this is a fun, easy to grab and toss around guitar with really cool looks and unique vintage vibe. (and no I did not want the new ‘retro’ re-issue made somewhere other than Japan).<\/p>\n
Anyone know the proper name to these pickups or what they are? The pickup heights seem low in the body so might raise them a lot, and needs a tuner bushing on the e string and a big cleaning.
\nI am also really wanting one of gold sparkle pickup guards that I saw one person had done online to theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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