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Drive your sound with raw humbucking power. Fender's new and innovative Blacktop guitar series expands the sonic horizon of classic Fender Stratocaster, Telecaster, Jazz master and Jaguar guitars by powering them with high-gain humbucking pickups. The Blacktop series delivers on modern player demands for a thick and heavy sound. These guitars drive a wide array of deep, rich and aggressive tones that match the intensity of any playing style. Sleek and supercharged, the Blacktop Jazz master HS has a Duncan Designed single-coil Jazz master neck pickup and a humbucking bridge pickup, with other distinctive touches including skirted black amp knobs, a Jazz master tremolo tailpiece and a lean control layout featuring a tonally convenient single three-way toggle switch. Other features include an alder body, maple neck with 9.5"-radius rosewood freeboard, 22 medium jumbo frets, gloss polyester finish and chrome hardware.
- A hot vintage AlNiCo humbucking bridge pickup and Duncan Designed Jazz master single-coil neck pickup offer an exceptional range of aggressive and glassy tones.
- A 22-fret freeboard with medium jumbo frets and a 9.5" radius is made for intensity playing.
- Black pickguard, pickup covers, and skirted amp knobs offer a modern, more-aggressive look, and a stock 3-way switch offers simplified control.
Fender Blacktop(TM) Jazzmaster® HS Electric Guitar, Black, Rosewood Fretboard Reviews
Fender Blacktop(TM) Jazzmaster® HS Electric Guitar, Black, Rosewood Fretboard Reviews
| 8 of 9 people found the following review helpful  Good sound, HORRIBLE hardware - unplayable guitar., By This review is from: Fender Blacktop(TM) Jazzmaster� HS Electric Guitar, Black, Rosewood Fretboard (Electronics) Here's a warning for anyone interested in a Jazzmaster: DONT get this guitar.Jazzmasters are notorious for having horrible bridges. When people have described the Jazzmaster Bridge problem when talking about this guitar, they said that the saddle screws rattle and buzz, and that this can be fixed by applying a drop of threadlocker. Upon receiving the guitar, I realized the lousy bridge design created many more problems than just a buzz. When I first opened the guitar, I noticed the action was set rather high. I like my action almost as low as possible, and have my Mexican Strat set up as so. I looked at the bridge, saw that the saddles were raised pretty high, and thought, "I can probably lower this action to play almost as good as my strat". So I played the guitar through my amp for an hour, and it sounded PRETTY good. There was a horrible buzzing from the saddles, but it didn't really matter at the time because I expected them to do that, and... Read more 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  Bridge problems plague this guitar, By This review is from: Fender Blacktop(TM) Jazzmaster� HS Electric Guitar, Black, Rosewood Fretboard (Electronics) I played one of these at a music store and can confirm problem 2 in Drad's letter: "the strings will slip out of the groove on the bridge." For example, merely bending the high E string caused it to slip out of its groove on the bridge. I got the impression that strumming this guitar aggressively would make even heavier strings leave their saddles. I also noticed that the saddles moved (i.e., wiggled) quite freely--not good! I did not buy this guitar primarily because of these very obvious bridge problems. I decided against it without even plugging it into an amp. There's a lesson here, aside from "Beware of THIS guitar": Don't assume that a guitar made by a reputable company is a good guitar. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful A great start, By Justin (New York, NY) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Fender Blacktop(TM) Jazzmaster� HS Electric Guitar, 3 Tone Sunburst, Rosewood Fretboard (Electronics) A good guitar, especially to be used as a base for mods, or for a new guitar player. I had to take out the bridge HB because it sounded pretty bad. The bridge JM pickup actually sounds wonderful. Neck is very playable and is great. There is no tremolo lock or secondary/rhythm channel on these, unlike normal jazzmasters. The bridge is also a bit of a step up from the mandatorily-replaced classic jazzmaster bridge, but is still prone to buzzes and such without a proper setup. |
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