General
If your budget is not big enough to buy a real vintage Fender guitar, Squier is an excellent alternative. The affiliate of the legendary guitar maker has added new classic models to its Vintage Modified series, including this white Jazzmaster. This guitar doesn't just have the looks of the '60s model, it also shares its great sound thanks to the two high-quality Duncan Designed pickups. Its playability has been massively improved thanks to the use of medium jumbo frets and a modern flat fretboard radius of 9.5 inches. This Olympic White edition with red tortoise pickguard is one of four new types of Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster.
The Squier Vintage Modified Jazzmaster's features
Originally designed for jazz guitarists, the two larger single-coil pickups of the Jazzmaster have a warm, sultry, more jazzy sound than those on a Strat or Tele, for instance. Thansk to this, it's clear sound became extremely popular among surf rock guitarists. The Vintage Modified Jazzmaster's pickups were designed by Seymour Duncan and produce a full, sparkling sound thanks to their alnico 5 magnets. The lightweight basswood body gives this guitar a tight, balanced tone. Other special features of this guitar include the vintage-tint maple neck with 21-fret laurel fretboard and classic clay dot position markers, an adjustable bridge with floating vibrato tailpiece, and double tone control.
Versatile dual tone circuit
Like the Jaguar, the Jazzmaster features a dual tone circuit. By using the small square switch you can choose between Rhythm and Lead mode. In Rhythm mode, only the neck pickup is used and the two horizontal disc knobs function as tone and volume control. In Lead mode, you use both pickups and the two white-knob potentiometers as volume and tone control. The Jazzmaster has a three-way pickup switch that allows you to choose between the clear bite of the bridge pickup and the warm sound of the neck pickup or a combination of both. The dual tone circuitry allows you to quickly change between different sounds of the neck pickup, without having to use the tone knobs.
The Squier brand
Ever since Fender introduced their first electric guitar in the fifties, many competing manufacturers have produced cheaper imitations of variable quality. To offer you the same reliability, sound and playability of the original at a reasonable price, Fender started a subsidiary in 1982: Squier, (not to be confused with the Fender Esquire!). Squier's guitars and bass guitars are built under supervision and by specifications of Fender itself, assuring that you purchase an authentic, quality instrument.