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WTB: Hodson Jazzcat (no, really!)

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Just wondering if anyone has one of these they want rid of... any body condition so long as the back of the neck is clean and with minimal fretwear...
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  • davejmdavejm Frets: 3
    Forlorn bump :)
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  • ebay? They are about £150 arent they?
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  • They show up on ebay as being within 5 miles of here. So I dropped them an email to ask if I could come and have a look and play some guitars but sadly no reply. That puts them in the 'plenty of other ways to risk 150 quid' category for me. Harsh, maybe. But I'm old and i don't care..
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  • davejmdavejm Frets: 3
    edited January 2014
    Yeah, (another oldie here, too - Howdy ;) ) I emailed them and messaged them via eBay and similarly got no response a week or so ago - I've played their Surfcat and it wasn't too bad at all so I was thinking of getting the Jazzcat (pref used and cheaper, needless to say) and upgrading it...
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  • GuyBodenGuyBoden Frets: 744
    edited June 2020

    davejm said:
    Just wondering if anyone has one of these they want rid of... any body condition so long as the back of the neck is clean and with minimal fretwear...

    A bit late but, yes, I have a Hodson Jazzcat for sale. It has seen very little use, no fret wear. It has an oil city P90 pickup in the neck. A great inexpensive guitar, low action, alder body 25.5 scale fender type neck. I might take some pictures and post it in the for sale section.


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  • JerkMoansJerkMoans Frets: 8781
    6.5 year necro bumpage. Is this a new record? Outstanding skills, @GuyBoden ;
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 18543
    Wow, resurrection shuffle indeed.
    Just read the Hodson blurb '... sofisticated...'  hope the proof reader was sacked.
    They seem to be very good value guitars though, even in 2020  ;)
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  • GuyBodenGuyBoden Frets: 744
    Wow, resurrection shuffle indeed.
    Just read the Hodson blurb '... sofisticated...'  hope the proof reader was sacked.
    They seem to be very good value guitars though, even in 2020  ;)

    Yes they were good value guitars, I bought it because I wanted to try the Jazzmaster shape, also it sounded good and played very well for a an inexpensive guitar. I've been thinking about taking some pics and selling it for a number of years, but haven't quite got around to it yet. Maybe tomorrow.
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  • davejmdavejm Frets: 3
    Hey Guy - just had to thank you for the consideration and delving this far back. In the meantime I bought a couple of Squier JMs (the Mascis isn't so bad...) so I'm out of the market, but I have to say that that old Hodson Surfcat has proven to be the real favourite - a slim and shallow neck profile on the maple neck and 6 years on still stays as straight as a die. Not only that, but the stock pickups on it are so inexplicably classic Strat sounding (no, really - it nails Chilton's Big Star Strat sound) that I unreservedly recommend that Surfcat model to anyone. No reason to think this Jazzcat won't similarly be a more than decent gtr since at the time they must've come from the same production source. All the best, sirrah.
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