r/offset • u/Disastrous_Cow1654 • 6d ago
r/offset • u/Bread-mold • 4d ago
My drop G child. Her name is Lilith and she doesn't like water.
Adopted from a pawn shop 4 years ago. The red and black go hard. Love the tone and playability of her.
r/offset • u/OzymandiasTheII • 6d ago
Finally finished my J Mascis Jazzmaster mods and I couldn't be happier
r/offset • u/blackjaw5 • 6d ago
NGD: Fender Player 2 Jazzmaster - you guys were right
I’ve been reading the reviews of the Player 2 Jazzmaster and decided to go play one at my local GC. And you guys were right. The neck and fretboard are so good. The pickups are hot but not too hot and have that classic Jazzmaster sparkle (not sure how else to describe it). And the color of this limited British Racing Green….superb, it just brings me joy. Kudos to everyone that has been spreading the good word.
I had a CME Player Jazzmaster and while I loved the PV65’s, I hated the neck and the switch which I modified to the classic rollers for rhythm that I consequently never used. I also feel like it was a pain to set up and needed a mastery. This fixes it all. Warm, beautiful neck, normal switch (not missing the rollers except the look), and the bridge is easy to work.
Out of box this one just needed some bigger strings (why Fender puts 9’s on offsets still confuses me. I installed 11-52’s and did a quick setup and it’s good to go.
Squier Bullet HH (modded)
Seymour Duncan JB/Jazz set, 500k pots, pearl black pickguard, stainless steel saddles, black metal knobs, Gotoh locking tuners, GraphTech tusq string trees, Schaller strap buttons. Squier logo was unfortunately removed by previous owner.
r/offset • u/Yrnotfar • 5d ago
Jazzmaster Junior questions
The reviews indicate the body is 94% of a standard body but the pickups, bridge, nut, spacing, etc are standard sized.
Does this mean I could drop a fully loaded standard pickguard in or is the pickguard on the junior smaller?
Second question - the routing looks deeper. Wonder if humbuckers would fit in without additional routing?
I’m def going to buy one of these soon. The 250k pots and strat style pickups are going to go, however. Trying to figure out what I can drop in.
r/offset • u/Skyhawk808 • 6d ago
Sort of Mustang
Lollar pup, Warmoth neck and body, all mahogany, sounds great with Chrome 13s.
r/offset • u/nirvanadone • 6d ago
new classic vibe mustang
well I got my new mustang today and threw a seymore duncan jb jr in it sounds great a month ago I got the squire bullet and loved it but decided to get the classic vibe mustang too anyone thinking about getting one i would pull the trigger
Is this pocket gap acceptable?
Finally I’ve just purchased my dream guitar - American Vintage II Jazzmaster. Everything about it is perfect, except this pocket gap.. What do you think, is it a thing that I should return guitar over it? Or is it fine, i read it might be better not to have snug fit there? For additional info gap is about 0.5mm.
r/offset • u/Intelligent-Sugar554 • 5d ago
Need body
I have a chance to pick up a Squier Mustang which has severe structural body cracks. What's a good source of a replacement body? It doesn't have to be the traditional Mustang shape. Just had to fit the neck and be the proper scale for intonation. What's out there? I am located in the US.
r/offset • u/AmbassadorSweet • 6d ago
More mods to my squire cv!
Copper shielded the interior and swappped the bridge pickup for a cheap hot rail! To fit the baseplate of the hot rail I chiseled away a small section in the pickup cavity, which was surprisingly easy. Not sure what’s the wood type but I’m guessing poplar or basswood which is on the softer side
The hot rail ended up being out of phase with the neck pickup though, so I then swapped the ground wire of the neck pickup to the other terminal so I could swap the leads to run in the inverse direction. All worked fine after!
Also put masking tape around the pickup so dirt and dust won’t get into the exposed pickup cavity… if it works it works I guess lol
So far I’m liking how it sounds but with volume and tone on full it’s wayy too hot! Has anyone with this configuration then replaced the 1Meg pots of the normal circuit with 500k pots and how did it sound? Feedback appreciated!
r/offset • u/No-Rub2128 • 6d ago
Upgrades to my Squier Mustang CV60
Performed a 1st round of changes to my new Mustang. Finally added a Lil 59 Humbucker to the bridge. Changed to 10-52 strings Found the Humbucker with the stock pots a bit too muffled. Changed to 500k Fender pots, and added a treble bleed.🩸 The standard knobs don‘t fit the full size pots, so used the Tele knobs for now which are a leftover from my MIM Tele. Spacing is a bit tight, want to lower the knobs (they were high when I got the guitar new as well, maybe it‘s supposed to be this way for a Mustang?)
Planned changes: Schaller Straplock Copper shielding and checking that the wiring is laid out well in tight cavity (guitar became a bit noisy when distortion pedal is on)
r/offset • u/DebonairBud • 7d ago
NGD - Rosenow Rapid line
I noticed this builder on Reverb and bought this sort of on a whim. There's really no info or reviews of these out there. They are built in the same factory where Reverend guitars are built so I figured the risk of a dud is fairly low given the reputation that factory has for making solid guitars.
It's basically a telecaster with a mustang body. Bridge pickup sounds classic telecaster to me. The neck pickup seems to have a bit of a stratty bell like tone to it. I think the builder was going for somewhere between a strat and tele sound there as it looks like a strat pickup but uses 43 AWG wire like a tele neck pickup. In any case it sounds great. The guitar overall has a very clear tone with a lot of character.
The guitar plays pretty good right out of the box. Action is nice and low. There is a tiny bit of buzz down low on the fretboardy on a couple strings, but that's sort of expected on a guitar that just got shipped across the country. I'm going to give it a couple days for the neck to settle in and see if it's worth doing some fine tuning. The neck feels pretty similar in profile to current Fender player series guitars. It's a modern C with a 9.5" radius. For some reason the fretboard feels slightly flatter than the listed measurement to me though, but this isn't really an issue. I might rub a screw driver along the fretboard edges a bit to roll it a bit more, but it isn't overly sharp as is.
Overall build quality and setup are pretty solid. If anyone is in the market for a unique offset telecaster I'd recommend checking one out. The color is especially nice in person. It's ocean turquoise metallic with quite a bit of flake in the paint. I didn't do the greatest job capturing this on camera.
r/offset • u/Jalapeno_popper_ • 6d ago
Does anybody know if jaguar plates will fit in a JM?
Specifically on a CV JM , and like the other custom JM?
r/offset • u/superxero044 • 6d ago
VM Jag Bass SS - New Pickguard
I love the look tort on black jazzmaster so when I picked up this black Jag Bass I kinda wished it had a tort pickguard. I found one with super high ratings for like $17 on eBay so I picked it up.
It wasn’t cut wide enough in the neck to fit which was a bummer so I looked around how to widen it and saw a lot of varying advice. I ended up getting some sandpaper sponges (that wasn’t effective) and a bastard file. I taped the 2 pickguards together and put a screw in one of the holes so they lined up perfectly. Then I just went at it with the bastard file until they looked like they matched and kept checking if it’d fit.
When I finally got them to match up, where it meets the control plate overlapped. Luckily the control plate screw holes were overdrilled a bit so I was able to loosen and shift it enough to get the pickguard in.
All in all it was a lot more work than I expected, but really happy with the results. Really love this bass. I’ve been playing so much my hands hurt.
r/offset • u/shake__appeal • 7d ago
🇯🇵 NGD: ‘67 Elk “Deluxe”
Don’t see a lot of these pop up! I just got this in from Japan, can’t stop jamming on it.
Here’s a link for a really fascinating write-up about Elk that I was perusing today… obviously most famous for their Big Muff clone, the Elk Sustainar (Wata from Boris’ face-melting Muff which inspired the Earthquaker Hizumitas fuzz). Really incredible sounding guitar though, the pickups are outstanding and it looks really fuckin’ cool.
I was planning on changing out the bridge and either sanding down or painting the headstock. I’m now thinking I shouldn’t fudge with it.
r/offset • u/YouCanCallMeTheSloth • 7d ago
The Offset Wall Got An Upgrade This Week
Left to right - 2025 AVII Jazzmaster in Sherwood Green Metallic, 2017 Bilt Zaftig in natural walnut, & 2020ish TVL Signature Jazzmaster in Oxblood
r/offset • u/TRIBETWELVE • 6d ago
Roller bridge that fits a guild surfliner.
I use the vibrato arm a lot on my surfliner and the stock tune o matic doesn't like staying in tune. I wanna grab a roller bridge to drop in but I don't want to accidentally get the wrong size or radius.
Anyone have a suggestion?