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Half Spaghetti and Bold Black Logos = Chin Scratch.
Jumbo Frets and Hideous CBS era Headstock = Not for me.
I think it's a perception rather than a fact that is rolled out a few times a year, when it's time for the usual guitar publications to copy and paste what they said the previous years.
Not against the Strat Trem on a JM but it leaves too much unused space below the Trem.
Not a fan of the satin in the custom colours, not sure it works.
Apart from the shape, the trem and the pickups are the whole point of the Jazzmaster. Do away with those and you have to wonder what the point is.
I said maybe.....
I thought the best compromise was the American Professional JM. Retained what I would say is the core look and feel, even if they did try and make it sound like a strat with those pickups.
The trem, the pickups and the body shape are the basis of the Jazzmaster and shouldn’t be messed with too much imo!!
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The Pro JM has a voice of its own, yes leans towards a Strat, but wider and more scooped sounding, but still punch, and has that trem. It’s a great voice, that is more Fendery than any Fender I’ve ever had, and if it had been around like this in the 60’s people would have carved some great music on it and it would have its own classic sound associations. But alas, any modern interpretation is just “not like the real thing”. I feel sorry for fender here. I say try the guitars for what they are, not what they aren’t, you never know you may find something you call you own.
Just makes me smile that offsets had their second sun when alternative bands picked them up and put them through so many fx they may have well used a strimmer as a guitar, it was a big F-U to the conventional Strat/Tele/Les Paul brigade, yet the mondern day offset-er is usually the most conservative of the bunch when it comes to changes.