@@gilbertotoledo1421circuits are still missing on both models You have to go back to like 2015 for the jazzmasters with the soap bars and rhythm circuits
My first jazzmaster was one of those classic player specials from 2018 with the rhythm circuit and jazzmaster-shaped pickups; it's really disappointing they haven't included the rhythm circuit since then
Fender produces what people buy, same as Gibson. Every time Gibson releases models that aren't the traditional ones, they are an abysmal failure. I think Fender and other guitar manufacturers have learned from Gibson's mistakes, in trying to re-invent the wheel
I love jazzmasters with the original pickups but as someone who usually plays heavier styles of music I do appreciate the jazzmasters having humbuckers.
The thing is, here in the U.K. the Player II Teles are around £679, and that’s for a Made in Mexico… or I can get a fairly similar Fujigen T shape guitar for £549 and save myself £120 for a guitar made in their factory, which has made Ibanez, Yamaha, Epiphone, Gretsch and Fender guitars in the past for the Japanese market. It’s a tough one because if I was going to buy a Fender, I’d want a Made in USA Fender, in which case you’re looking at £1000+, otherwise I might as well buy a Squire
I think we pay for a name often. I've had 5 strats US , Squire and Mex. I couldn't tell the difference. My next will be a sire. Less $ and comes with alot more.
With no rhythm circuit it's still not a proper Jazzmaster to me. No way I'm paying that much for a Jazzmaster or Jaguar that's missing such a key feature. I'd much rather get the more accurate Squier version and upgrade it than pay more for a Fender that's missing a bunch of stuff.
@@OttophilI get that some people want a variation of the model with different contemporary specs, but those are modern variations with familiar body shapes. Those guitars are cool and they've made a few different varieties but there are tons of people who would really like a more affordable Fender branded base model with the traditional specs. Others like the strat and tele get traditional base models, but not the offsets.
No one has ever used that rhythm circuit ever. Yall just love to complain. If you've ever used a jazzmaster on stage or even recording, you'd know how inconvenient the placing is and how it shreds the skin off your fingers. It's a PLAYER series not a collector's series. These are a godsend when you actually perform and don't care about tradition or any sentimental things
Honestly, this is the truth. You can hold off until you find a $300 Classic Vibe or 40th Anniversary Squier, upgrade the pots and pickups and you’ve got yourself an instrument that will compete head-to-head with a Fender. Cheers
@@CHlEFFIN I would ( and have) put my vintage vibe tele, and/or vintage modified p bass up against ANY Mexican or even USA fender equivalent. Both are basically stock outside of a new bridge on the bass and a new pickup switch on the tele.
Are there any comparable offset guitars with a rhythm circuit? Seeing Fender release their JMs/Jaguars without their key feature is pretty discouraging, but the only lower-priced brands I'm currently aware of that have one would be from Tagima and Squire.
I have a fender player II strat andits honestly my favorite feeling instrument I've ever played to this day. Mine is in tequila sunrise (I love that color name lmao) and has brought be a lot of joy
Agreed I’m with you but for Jazzmasters it’s so annoying But won’t buy one now bc - AM vintage ii - played one great but not worth the price and don’t love the colours AM PRO II - no tradition rhythm circuit AM Performer - no traditional bridge Vintera II - played one feels awful and don’t like the colours Vintera I - pau ferro no Player I and II no rhythm circuit and pau ferro in I MIJ - Basswood body ewwww Please fender give the offset lovers what they want in a era of indie and shoegaze music and no proper JM or jaguars It sucks
I have the Player 1 HH Jazzmaster and it’s a solid axe. Pickups are great, it gets really twangy with the coil splits, love those pickups. The pau ferro looks really cheap but IMO it’s quite stable and adds a lot of rigidity to the neck, my fretboard has a banana yellow hue, it looks awful, but plays well. I like a lot the forward vibrato unid. My only big complaint is that the mustang bridge and the humbuckers have different string spacing.
Same complaints here but overall it’s great, I got mine used and the fretboard was dyed so it looks and somehow feels like ebony but is still pau Ferro, maybe you could try that bc it looks decent
The vintera 2 I don't think has jazzmaster pickups. They have jazzmaster covers on hot strat pickups. In the past some squier like the 40th anniversary and the vintage spec us were the only ways to get stock jazzmaster construction pickups.
I've had a player tele since 2019. I threw a vintage bridge and tuners on it and I love it. If it wasn't for the fact that it doesn't have a nitro finish I'd probably never have bought another guitar.
I made my friend, who is a guitar major, play blindly a Larry Carlton Sire Strat and my Vintage 2 Strat and he thought the Sire felt and sounded better. I didn't tell him what the guitars were going to be- I just told them they were Strats or S type guitars.
I plan on getting a sire s10 soon. I've had strats for 30 years. We will see but for the price I thought I'd give it a shot and it looking good I can always just hang it on the wall
@@41663 dude you're going to be blown away. Asian guitars are not how they used to be. Actually, as a band teacher, any instrument that is made in China or Indonesia is actually decent nowadays. Even brass, woodwinds, and percussion. You can get a great trumpet for $500.
That’s interesting I never considered Fender to be unique for their maple, but I suppose since Gibson never uses 🍁. I always preferred rosewood fenders funnily enough
@Skiz13435 Thankyou for your honest reply ! "Food for thought" the first electric guitar's were 1930's jazz units (hollow) with lap steel pickup's, no maple here ! Rickenbacker was the first to market ! Epiphone and Gibson were soon to follow with there absolutely beautiful hollow guitar's, please remember that Leo Fender was not a musician but an self engineer, in designing the 1948 ESQUIRE mk. 1 he needed something different and very stable for a replaceable neck and no truss rod , he felt the hard maple would work, NOT !! 1950 was the beginning of the truss rod era. in Fender necks. as we R today the Fender maple is still with us . I own many Fenders all R maple even my 1954 strat and my blue flower Tele, no major manufacturer except Fender use maple on most of there units !
@@martinhiggs7027 and thank you for the informative reply! I have noticed that, it does seem most brands do not use maple, really. Hell a lot of brands don’t use rosewood anymore either, which makes me prefer maple. Unless it’s real nice dark dark rosewood I prefer a maple. For me it’s nothing like a sunburst fender, tortoise Pickguard with a rosewood fretboard. Doesn’t matter the model. Those 60s models are supremely classy. Granted I play the hell out of a 52 tele avri with a modern day roasted maple neck on it. So yknow 🤷. Something about the new lighter pau farros and less than optimal rosewood cuts that brands are using doesn’t do it for me, although I understand why with it being an almost extinct species now, I don’t find the alternatives particularly appealing as to anything vintage spec’d.
@Skiz13435 Skiz absolutely strong reply my friend ! any early 60's Strat with a Rosewood fret board is a dream guitar period !! especially the interior wireing "pots-caps" not just pickup's make the sound ! there's nothing like a hot sweaty maple neck in the 2nd set !
I bought a top of the line tele a couple years ago. Fell apart. Switch was bad pick, one pickup didn’t work, then I put a tiny, TINY, Nick in the body and half the finish fell off. This was a brand new Telecaster, a ‘56 repo model, most expensive T Fender had for sale at that time.
I picked up a strat not too long ago their 70th anniv cheap model like 6 something to replace my strat from childhood (first ever guitar) that was stolen from me . Also picked up a 12 string green jazzmaster on their site for the hell of it only like 4 something and it’s totally different
Pau ferro is denser and smoother,and can easily be made darker, I don’t get the criticism,looks good to me.not like these are reissues of vintage models.
My fellow guitar nerds, I am at a crossroads for a new guitar. I'm looking into either an Ibanez or Jackson. Something I could use for say heavy rock but also for like calmer tones.
I bought a used Jackson Dinky at GC for a few days and it felt amazing but the fine tuners were stripped so I went back and exchanged for a used Ibanez RG that is still fine but I think I liked the Dinky more
"Yaaaaay, the Jazzmaster has now correct pickups!" Still no rhythm circuit... And he's calling that an improvement... You're calling the Player II series an improvement while it's a downgrade and Squier has better sounding, more accurate instruments for cheaper? LOL. Every actual Jaguar owner would see the Player II Jaguar as an absolute crime + a total downgrade.
* Laughs in US Strat * But as an aside - does this mean that rosewood has recovered as a species? I thought the move to pau ferro was due to environmental concerns? I still intend on getting a Tele, but at the moment I'm split between getting either a Squier Vintage model, a Fujigen or a Player II - if I'm being honest, the former 2 have had a slight advantage over the player II when I tried them instore.
Those Strats with Pau Ferro boards are now going to end up being sought after lol. Especially by SRV fans. It's a better (and more expensive) wood than rosewood. And what Tele player wants a rosewood neck anyway?
I put a ton of work into stripping my Player neck , rolling fretboard, converting the tuner holes so I could have vintage looking tuners, spraying with nitro etc.. I tried and failed to significantly darken the Pau Ferro tho.. Son of a bitch, now they come out with Rosewood, and replacing the neck is the cost of another guitar. So bummed…
I'd rather have pau ferro than rosewood. My guitar with a rosewood fretboard seems to have its strings get disgusting extra fast and I think it's the wood.
i had a player 1 jag and it was the biggest piece of dog shit i ever played. bought it brand new from the factory, and the saddles were already gone to shit. At least with the player two they upgraded the bridge which should help but you’d be better off buying a squire classic vibes jag anyways. Save yourself the money and shoot for squire, or save yourself some money and buy an american made jag. I personally own a Kurt Cobain Jag and am the happiest man alive. did it cost 1.5grand, yeah, but was it worth the wait, yeah.
i have a player series strat, and it is genuinely the worst guitar with the worst QC that i’ve ever owned. The frets stick out so much they cut your hands, jagged edges everywhere, no sustain on the guitar at all. oh and it was $1300 AUD
THEY BUTCHERED THE JAG! It’s a discount JM Jag now. Like fender that JM jag is great and probably the best jag in your line up but come on. 2,500 for a good jag? This is BS
Every jazzmaster and jaguar player I know is supremely disappointed with this shit
Why?
@@gilbertotoledo1421circuits are still missing on both models
You have to go back to like 2015 for the jazzmasters with the soap bars and rhythm circuits
My first jazzmaster was one of those classic player specials from 2018 with the rhythm circuit and jazzmaster-shaped pickups; it's really disappointing they haven't included the rhythm circuit since then
@@autumnonawhim I got my first in 15ish, I eventually routed it and put in all the right stuff. Still cheaper than the pro series 😂
Ohhhh. I was trying to figure out why the offset crowd was knocking these. Thanks for pointing that out, that is a big miss for Fender 🙃
Oh look, it's Fender releasing the exact same instruments again. Can't wait to put them next to my slash les paul 😂
Lol I know right
Not buying anything (brand new) from fender or gibson at this line rn
Ew a gibtard
@@wAiEr1009 I don't own a Gibson. In fact, I don't even play guitar. I play bass.
Fender produces what people buy, same as Gibson. Every time Gibson releases models that aren't the traditional ones, they are an abysmal failure. I think Fender and other guitar manufacturers have learned from Gibson's mistakes, in trying to re-invent the wheel
I love how Fender is adding a straight humbucker pickup at the bridge of some strats.
Cool. I’ll go back to my Squier now.
I just put in Seymour Duncan's into my squire
@@sallevadorradman1938 and it sounds awesome i heard!!
@@jackjerfstroem1072 CV's are better than Players ;) JMJM are crazy for the money.
Pau Ferro doesn't look cheap just different. I love the red tint.
I love jazzmasters with the original pickups but as someone who usually plays heavier styles of music I do appreciate the jazzmasters having humbuckers.
Noooooo the jazzmaster with the humbuckers was my favourite!
fr those were badass
Just get a Jaguar at that point
@@thelemonadeguy6035what? A Jaguar also doesn’t have humbuckers traditionally.
@JoshBattershell yeah but they very often do now whereas the P90s are what makes a Jazzmaster a Jazzmaster
@@thelemonadeguy6035 jazzmasters don’t have p90’s. They have jazzmaster pickups. They’re not the same design and don’t sound anything alike
The thing is, here in the U.K. the Player II Teles are around £679, and that’s for a Made in Mexico… or I can get a fairly similar Fujigen T shape guitar for £549 and save myself £120 for a guitar made in their factory, which has made Ibanez, Yamaha, Epiphone, Gretsch and Fender guitars in the past for the Japanese market.
It’s a tough one because if I was going to buy a Fender, I’d want a Made in USA Fender, in which case you’re looking at £1000+, otherwise I might as well buy a Squire
The Fujigen guitars are in general a better made guitar. The one downside is the bodies are typically made out of basswood, though not all
I think we pay for a name often. I've had 5 strats US , Squire and Mex. I couldn't tell the difference. My next will be a sire. Less $ and comes with alot more.
that's how fendah gets ya
With no rhythm circuit it's still not a proper Jazzmaster to me. No way I'm paying that much for a Jazzmaster or Jaguar that's missing such a key feature. I'd much rather get the more accurate Squier version and upgrade it than pay more for a Fender that's missing a bunch of stuff.
The Squier has basically the same specs anyway lmao
I hate “proper” jazzmasters. Give me a hardtail with humbuckers and toss that rythm circuit in the trash.
@@OttophilI get that some people want a variation of the model with different contemporary specs, but those are modern variations with familiar body shapes. Those guitars are cool and they've made a few different varieties but there are tons of people who would really like a more affordable Fender branded base model with the traditional specs. Others like the strat and tele get traditional base models, but not the offsets.
@@Ottophil okay, then don't get a traditional Jazzmaster. Get a Jazzmaster shaped guitar with your specs.
No one has ever used that rhythm circuit ever. Yall just love to complain. If you've ever used a jazzmaster on stage or even recording, you'd know how inconvenient the placing is and how it shreds the skin off your fingers. It's a PLAYER series not a collector's series. These are a godsend when you actually perform and don't care about tradition or any sentimental things
I like a maple finger board myself. The dark goes good with some colors but not at all with others. 😮
Don't worry, Squier is still making better playing, better sounding instruments at a lower price point.
100% true.
Honestly, this is the truth. You can hold off until you find a $300 Classic Vibe or 40th Anniversary Squier, upgrade the pots and pickups and you’ve got yourself an instrument that will compete head-to-head with a Fender. Cheers
@@CHlEFFINdont upgrade the pickups. The 40th jazzmaster has real jazzmaster construction and usable pots
@@CHlEFFIN I would ( and have) put my vintage vibe tele, and/or vintage modified p bass up against ANY Mexican or even USA fender equivalent. Both are basically stock outside of a new bridge on the bass and a new pickup switch on the tele.
Agree! I have a 40th Jazzmaster and I just love it. It gets more use than my Player Strat
I like the Pau Ferro on my Vintera Jaguar 60s Modified HH in Sonic Blue. I think it suits the guitar.
The bridge on the Squier Classic Vibe Jazzmaster is better than the one on the Player ll. And the CV has all the proper circuitry.
Are there any comparable offset guitars with a rhythm circuit? Seeing Fender release their JMs/Jaguars without their key feature is pretty discouraging, but the only lower-priced brands I'm currently aware of that have one would be from Tagima and Squire.
I have a fender player II strat andits honestly my favorite feeling instrument I've ever played to this day. Mine is in tequila sunrise (I love that color name lmao) and has brought be a lot of joy
I just want a normal goddamn Jaguar. Why the hell have Fender decided every Jaguar has to be some weird thing or signature
Agreed I’m with you but for Jazzmasters it’s so annoying
But won’t buy one now bc -
AM vintage ii - played one great but not worth the price and don’t love the colours
AM PRO II - no tradition rhythm circuit
AM Performer - no traditional bridge
Vintera II - played one feels awful and don’t like the colours
Vintera I - pau ferro no
Player I and II no rhythm circuit and pau ferro in I
MIJ - Basswood body ewwww
Please fender give the offset lovers what they want in a era of indie and shoegaze music and no proper JM or jaguars
It sucks
@@jakfazari2104 Get a Squier, or a Player 2 and put in the rythm circuit yourself, only thing you gotta do is some routing and soldering.
I have the Player 1 HH Jazzmaster and it’s a solid axe. Pickups are great, it gets really twangy with the coil splits, love those pickups. The pau ferro looks really cheap but IMO it’s quite stable and adds a lot of rigidity to the neck, my fretboard has a banana yellow hue, it looks awful, but plays well. I like a lot the forward vibrato unid. My only big complaint is that the mustang bridge and the humbuckers have different string spacing.
Same complaints here but overall it’s great, I got mine used and the fretboard was dyed so it looks and somehow feels like ebony but is still pau Ferro, maybe you could try that bc it looks decent
Great fender change!
I have a 2013 FSR Strat with a rosewood board and it’s my favorite guitar that I own. I play it all the time
im waiting the player PLus II ..... I love the the 12" radious...!!...let see what we got there
Any lefty guitars?
That fiesta strat with a rosewood board excites me.
Thanks for covering this
In your opinion are the Vintera 2 Jazzmaster pickups any good? Should I consider a mustang bridge?
The vintera 2 I don't think has jazzmaster pickups. They have jazzmaster covers on hot strat pickups. In the past some squier like the 40th anniversary and the vintage spec us were the only ways to get stock jazzmaster construction pickups.
I've had a player tele since 2019. I threw a vintage bridge and tuners on it and I love it. If it wasn't for the fact that it doesn't have a nitro finish I'd probably never have bought another guitar.
I have a players telecaster and it's a great guitar. Interested about the strat rework and ash tele
Please Bring Back the Standard series 🙏
RAHH THEY MASSACRED MY BOY 😭 (the jaguar)
Just got to try a Series 2 Strat.
Frets were NOT rolled at all, setup was beautiful though
They messed up the jaguar i liked the previous ones more😖
I'm sure that replacing pau ferro, that costs 5 times as much as East Indian rosewood, was high on their list too!
I made my friend, who is a guitar major, play blindly a Larry Carlton Sire Strat and my Vintage 2 Strat and he thought the Sire felt and sounded better. I didn't tell him what the guitars were going to be- I just told them they were Strats or S type guitars.
I plan on getting a sire s10 soon. I've had strats for 30 years. We will see but for the price I thought I'd give it a shot and it looking good I can always just hang it on the wall
@@41663 dude you're going to be blown away. Asian guitars are not how they used to be. Actually, as a band teacher, any instrument that is made in China or Indonesia is actually decent nowadays. Even brass, woodwinds, and percussion. You can get a great trumpet for $500.
I'm just waiting for the Fender Bluesman to come out
Something that makes Fender guitar's unique is the maple neck/fretboard ?
That’s interesting I never considered Fender to be unique for their maple, but I suppose since Gibson never uses 🍁.
I always preferred rosewood fenders funnily enough
@Skiz13435 Thankyou for your honest reply ! "Food for thought" the first electric guitar's were 1930's jazz units (hollow) with lap steel pickup's, no maple here ! Rickenbacker was the first to market ! Epiphone and Gibson were soon to follow with there absolutely beautiful hollow guitar's, please remember that Leo Fender was not a musician but an self engineer, in designing the 1948 ESQUIRE mk. 1 he needed something different and very stable for a replaceable neck and no truss rod , he felt the hard maple would work, NOT !! 1950 was the beginning of the truss rod era. in Fender necks. as we R today the Fender maple is still with us . I own many Fenders all R maple even my 1954 strat and my blue flower Tele, no major manufacturer except Fender use maple on most of there units !
@@martinhiggs7027 and thank you for the informative reply!
I have noticed that, it does seem most brands do not use maple, really. Hell a lot of brands don’t use rosewood anymore either, which makes me prefer maple.
Unless it’s real nice dark dark rosewood I prefer a maple. For me it’s nothing like a sunburst fender, tortoise Pickguard with a rosewood fretboard. Doesn’t matter the model. Those 60s models are supremely classy.
Granted I play the hell out of a 52 tele avri with a modern day roasted maple neck on it. So yknow 🤷.
Something about the new lighter pau farros and less than optimal rosewood cuts that brands are using doesn’t do it for me, although I understand why with it being an almost extinct species now, I don’t find the alternatives particularly appealing as to anything vintage spec’d.
@Skiz13435 Skiz absolutely strong reply my friend ! any early 60's Strat with a Rosewood fret board is a dream guitar period !! especially the interior wireing "pots-caps" not just pickup's make the sound ! there's nothing like a hot sweaty maple neck in the 2nd set !
@@martinhiggs7027 👑
What about the jaguar? 👀
I bought a top of the line tele a couple years ago. Fell apart. Switch was bad pick, one pickup didn’t work, then I put a tiny, TINY, Nick in the body and half the finish fell off. This was a brand new Telecaster, a ‘56 repo model, most expensive T Fender had for sale at that time.
What's the cost difference though?
Fender getting rid of more left-handed options and limiting our color options even more will never not be irritating.
Better solution, squire 70s vibe strat, locking tuners. New Seymour Duncan pickups. All new hardware (completely blacked out) and full require.
I wonder if they will actaully put the frets in correctly this time?
Played some of them, they are soo much better than the player 1 serie, they really upped there game they feel and play like a 2000$ guitar
I picked up a strat not too long ago their 70th anniv cheap model like 6 something to replace my strat from childhood (first ever guitar) that was stolen from me . Also picked up a 12 string green jazzmaster on their site for the hell of it only like 4 something and it’s totally different
I love my double humbucker Strat
Got a Marauder in 2012 with tri-blaster pick-up. Don't see many of them tho.
That was a limited run unfortunately
Just tried the Squire and Fender Jazzmasters recently. The Squire actually sounded better.
ASH IS BACK, BABY
“I don’t mind the feel of PAU FERRO” 🌚 lá ele
I like your videos, but more often than not, I completely disagree with a lot of your opinions. Keep up the good work.
80 new models but once again for lefties its "dO yA wAnT tHe tELe oR thE sTRat ??😀😀"
Bring back the old mustang!!!
Wait what? Soes that mean I can't get the Lead ii or iii I've been looking at? What about the Meteora?
Wish they’d at least routed the bodies on jazzmaster and jaguar for the rhythm circuits so you could at least mod them easier
Pau ferro is denser and smoother,and can easily be made darker, I don’t get the criticism,looks good to me.not like these are reissues of vintage models.
My fellow guitar nerds, I am at a crossroads for a new guitar. I'm looking into either an Ibanez or Jackson. Something I could use for say heavy rock but also for like calmer tones.
I bought a used Jackson Dinky at GC for a few days and it felt amazing but the fine tuners were stripped so I went back and exchanged for a used Ibanez RG that is still fine but I think I liked the Dinky more
Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but in my 17 years of gaming, no one I ever knew wanted to be player two😂
Worst part is the player series weren’t even that affordable anymore. Player pluses we’re around 1029
The new jaguar still a jaguar or does it belong in the paranormal series ?
Does anyone play jazz on a jazzmaster? Or just like shoegaze and post-rock?
That $800+ price tag on the sunburst stratocaster is literally disgusting
Nah pao ferro is goated 😭
"Yaaaaay, the Jazzmaster has now correct pickups!"
Still no rhythm circuit... And he's calling that an improvement... You're calling the Player II series an improvement while it's a downgrade and Squier has better sounding, more accurate instruments for cheaper?
LOL.
Every actual Jaguar owner would see the Player II Jaguar as an absolute crime + a total downgrade.
* Laughs in US Strat * But as an aside - does this mean that rosewood has recovered as a species? I thought the move to pau ferro was due to environmental concerns?
I still intend on getting a Tele, but at the moment I'm split between getting either a Squier Vintage model, a Fujigen or a Player II - if I'm being honest, the former 2 have had a slight advantage over the player II when I tried them instore.
Just about every player series guitar I've played felt like shit anyway, hopefully player 2 is an improvement.
TIME TO BUY A JAZZMASTER
They also killed the Jazzmaster in essence.
i miss the pau ferro, i always wanted a white P bass witha pau ferro pickguard but never had the money to grab one, i love the look though
Those Strats with Pau Ferro boards are now going to end up being sought after lol. Especially by SRV fans.
It's a better (and more expensive) wood than rosewood.
And what Tele player wants a rosewood neck anyway?
Lefty version when?
I put a ton of work into stripping my Player neck , rolling fretboard, converting the tuner holes so I could have vintage looking tuners, spraying with nitro etc.. I tried and failed to significantly darken the Pau Ferro tho.. Son of a bitch, now they come out with Rosewood, and replacing the neck is the cost of another guitar. So bummed…
The original telecaster was pine…
I want a humbucker jag
They sound cheap. but aren’t. Bad marketing. Player 2 series sounds like entry level budget guitars.
Seems like a good time to be a fender fan tbh, shame I just can’t really click with their style for some reason :(
My cv Jaguar is great.
Day 14 of asking for a review of the Yamaha Pacifica 611
No interest unless they swap to stainless steel frets. Once you swap you cant go back.
True that
Maple fretboards are better.
@steveharrison8044 100% my friend ! the maple fretboard is a unique feature by Fender, I own many Fender electric guitars all R maple 🍁
Honestly the fender player jag with the single coil and Humbucker was actually a pretty solid axe. Even with a pau ferro fingerboard.
I'd rather have pau ferro than rosewood. My guitar with a rosewood fretboard seems to have its strings get disgusting extra fast and I think it's the wood.
@@cake_9510 Yeah but even agufish said pau ferro looked kinda cheap but it really comes down to personal preference.
i had a player 1 jag and it was the biggest piece of dog shit i ever played. bought it brand new from the factory, and the saddles were already gone to shit. At least with the player two they upgraded the bridge which should help but you’d be better off buying a squire classic vibes jag anyways. Save yourself the money and shoot for squire, or save yourself some money and buy an american made jag. I personally own a Kurt Cobain Jag and am the happiest man alive. did it cost 1.5grand, yeah, but was it worth the wait, yeah.
i have a player series strat, and it is genuinely the worst guitar with the worst QC that i’ve ever owned. The frets stick out so much they cut your hands, jagged edges everywhere, no sustain on the guitar at all. oh and it was $1300 AUD
YESSS HUMBUCKERSSSSSS
Spending 100 bucks and spending 10,000 bucks you get the same thing when it comes to Fender
NO RHYTHM CIRIUT ON THE JAZZMASTER WHY
All at a nice, new price hike, I assume.
𝕊𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕫𝕖𝕕.
Jaguars and Jazzmasters lack the rhythm circuit. Not only look like crap but you get half a guitar.
Reminds me… I need a new strat.
Would've been better if the player jazzmaster had a fuckin rhythm circuit
Whack. I don’t like rosewood fretboards either.
80 new models and about 5 for lefties. Good grief
THEY BUTCHERED THE JAG! It’s a discount JM Jag now. Like fender that JM jag is great and probably the best jag in your line up but come on. 2,500 for a good jag? This is BS
i can't stand the way rosewood fingerboards look, i need maple, or roasted maple, and i like them to be glossy on the front! (satin on the back)
The jaguar 2 is a disgrace to jaguars
It so much is
same instruments just 200 dollars more 😔
The jazzmaster and jaguar not having the rhythm circuit is a crime. Also glad pau ferro is gone because that was ugly
Fender player overpriced. Look elsewhere for non-USA budget friendly guitars and basses. Sire, G&L. The G&L imports have USA hardware.
Every Player series I ever picked up was set up like complete shite. Frets not finished well & they just didn't feel good.
If your pau ferro is too light then you just don’t play it enough.
Don't do it. Buy an American one. You know I'm right. Just do it. Those are gifts for kids.