Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster Special Electric Guitar  

This is a beauty  it plays so easy . The neck is smooth . Pickups  are  great sounding. It was set      up fine when I took it out of the box and all I had to do was tune the G string.     I have the blonde model   looks great.

You know its going to be a good guitar if it sounds great  unplugged. Nothing but quality.

This guitar is a great buy . Get one now before they are all gone  . You won t   be sorry. It is very well built.

No worries here . If your looking at  buying this guitar  only you know what kind of music you play and  love to play if this guitar fits your style don t   wait any longer get it  now  you will love it.

Pros: Great looking / Well made / Good Playability / Easy to set up (Factory set up terrible out of box)

Cons: Limited Tone with many dead spots. There are a few good sweet spots. Knobs are clunky. Neck is a bit wide for my style.

All in all....a good guitar for the money. If you want a nice platform to put in your own choice sound pick ups....this would greatly improve this guitar and make it a great gigger.

It compares to higher priced guitars and is well made and sturdy. Gig machine. Holds tune well if played hard.

For the money...it is a good buy and if it is going to be a starter guitar, it is a great choice.

If this guitar had some better pick ups...it would be outstanding. I have some 60s jazzmasters and don't use them for gigs.....This one fills the bill with some mods.

I've had this guitar for a couple of weeks now and it's time to write this review.

To begin with I have been playing the guitar for about fifty years and currently own quite a few.

The style I have focused on in the last ten years has been mostly jazz but I did drift into finger style acoustic in the Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, Tommy Emmanuel style.

Years ago I owned a fender jazzmaster and really liked it, so that model has always had a place in my heart.

When I started getting the xmas e/mails, I was looking through all the deals when I came upon the

Squire Modified Jazzmaster, and my interest was piqued. I read almost all the reviews from every source and finally after about a week of thinking about it, I ordered one.

Now about that Jazzmaster, after I took one look at it,and before I even plugged it in, I did a complete set on it. I have a certain feel and action that I like and have done my own set ups for years, so I lowered the strings and make some adjustments to the truss rod, and plugged this baby in to take it for a test drive. The guitar played like a dream through an old tweed, nice and clean with great tone.

After an hour or so and a few more tweeks on the set up this baby was as nice as my old jazzmaster.

I got my old strat out of the closet just to compare the playablity, and there wasn't a nickels worth of difference between how the jazzmaster felt and the my old strat, sound was another story, my old strat has been sitting so long that the pots are real noisey, the jazzmaster has a real fat clean tone that I have really been enjoying.

The only thing that I guess I was cocerned about is the bridge. The  info that I had read talked about

how the radius would always be maintained because all the saddles set on the bridge plate so you just raise or lower the bridge plate by one of two adjusting screws on each side. To do this you end up with the bridge cocked at about 30 degrees on the bass side which just looked wrong. To top it off the whole bridge system is anchored with just a big honking wood screw driven right into the body of the guitar. Not only that but the threads of the big honking wood screw show from the bottom view, because they don't even drive the screw allnthe way in because it throws off the alignment of the bridge plate. I will never understand why they chose such a flimzy way of anchoring the bridge.

What I chose to due instead was lower the bridge all the way down and adjust the string saddles to the right heighth, this of course effected the 9.5 radius so I made the final adjustment with an under string radius gauge.

All in all this is a good guitar with great tones, for the money it is a steal. My resevations as to the bridge system not withstanding you can't buy a better guitar in this price range and I would recommend it to anyone who wants the looks, feel and sound of a Jazzmaster.

Finish is flawless

A better bridge design would have earned it a ten.

This guitar is increadable!!! I love the sound of the pickups! The neck is awesome.. Plays like butter!! The action was setup perfect right out of the box!!

Great quality for the price... So far it's holding up well.

You can't beat the price!! Hands downs great guitar for the price!!

Overall this is a great guitar!! Pickups are very nice!! The guitar has several great sounds you can dial up between the two soapbar pickups!!

Pickups rock. Punchy, loud and clear. P-90 like, only better. Harmonics are everywhere. This guitar will rock, or be smooth as silk. The bridge, neck and body combination provide excellent sustain, notes ring for over 10 seconds, with very gradual decay. Neck feels great. Two volumes and two tones, tone controls lightly click to each setting. Nice. Body is fairly sustantial, but not too big. Intonation and setup are somewhat time consuming, or it would be a "10".

Slight knock here, neck pocket has a bit of a gap but it has no discernable effect. Plays perfect, no buzzing and nice close action. Butterscotch Blonde is exactly that, and is slightly see through so some of the wood grain shows up. Great looking guitar.

You'd be hard pressed to find a guitar for the same or even more money that was as good overall. I've paid over a grand for axes that did not have the oomph this one does. Guitar Player Magazine was right to make this an editor's choice.

As I said if the setup and intonation weren't so time consuming it'd be a 10, but make no mistake this guitar has some serious mojo. Les Paul controls on a Fender platform equals the best of both. I can't get over how good it sounds.