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OzziePete
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I was doing a mock up on the Warmoth Body Builder program for the Jazzmaster and noticed this anomaly. As at today it is still an option a customer could order and then find out later they might have 'painted themselves into a corner'.
The Jazzmaster Body Builder will allow for the customer to order a top routed Jazzmaster body with mini humbuckers.
But the Jazzmaster Pickguards that are made by Warmoth (a Fender Jazzmaster pickguard will not fit a Warmoth body - and any aftermarket pickguard builder would base their JM pickguard around the Fender model rather than the Warmoth) will not allow a JM pickguard to be routed for mini hums. I have asked Warmoth to rout such a pickguard, at least a couple of times over the years, and the answer has always been no.
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=16231.0
Once you realise that, you then have to engineer your own way around the problem.
One way that Warmoth could prevent this problem, would be to only allow mini humbuckers to be selected on this body IF the rear rout option or Split Jazzmaster option is chosen. There is no need for a pickguard then, or - in the case of the Split JM - the pickguards do not need routings for pickups.
The Jazzmaster Body Builder will allow for the customer to order a top routed Jazzmaster body with mini humbuckers.
But the Jazzmaster Pickguards that are made by Warmoth (a Fender Jazzmaster pickguard will not fit a Warmoth body - and any aftermarket pickguard builder would base their JM pickguard around the Fender model rather than the Warmoth) will not allow a JM pickguard to be routed for mini hums. I have asked Warmoth to rout such a pickguard, at least a couple of times over the years, and the answer has always been no.
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=16231.0
Once you realise that, you then have to engineer your own way around the problem.
One way that Warmoth could prevent this problem, would be to only allow mini humbuckers to be selected on this body IF the rear rout option or Split Jazzmaster option is chosen. There is no need for a pickguard then, or - in the case of the Split JM - the pickguards do not need routings for pickups.
