Thirsty Fretboard, but less Budget that it seemed! | Squier 40th Anniversary Jazzmaster

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Chapters:
0:00 Introducing the 40th Anniversary Squier Jazzmaster
2:25 Giving the thirsty fretboard a clean and tidy, and a much-needed drink
8:22 Don't forget that you can own this guitar!
8:41 Conclusion
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[@gema1831]

Oups, Jazzmaster pickups are NOT P90!

[@lotuselanplus2s]

Just a little love and it looks fantastic. Great vid.

[@howardw3223]

Elaine from HR at the Christmas party! Nice one Josh. Great video.

[@alexcorona]

You’re wrong on the guitar museum , one already exists. It’s in Las Vegas, it was started by Fat Mike of the band NOFX. They have guitars and amps owned by famous musicians and they even let you play them…..

[@thesamaffliction1572]

Is it normal for the wood type that laurel dries very quick? I have one guitar with it and I love the colour and the grain/pores when treated but I find every few weeks it dries up again. I live in a pretty mild flat and don’t gig so it’s not the environment or humidity doing it from what I can tell.

[@LookingForEntertainment112]

I'd love to try those oils, but A$110 shipping for two tiny bottles is a tad excessive. EDIT: The shipping was actually £110 (A$193!) through Crimson Guitars eBay store. Going through the Crimson Guitars Webstore the shipping was a lot more reasonable at £15, thanks to Rikki from Crimson Guitars for his suggestion.

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

We are looking into this. Would you please email Rikki at [e-mail] with this query. DC

[@LookingForEntertainment112]

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Righto, will do

[@markseymour8365]

@@LookingForEntertainment112 I wouldn't buy anything from Crimson Guitars. They took 11 days to ship a simple order when I did, then blamed the delay on everyone apart from themselves. The one thing they didn't do is apologise for being so slow. Nice KZbin image, crap customer service.

[@LookingForEntertainment112]

@@markseymour8365 I ended up ordering from their site, it took two months to get to Aus.

[@markseymour8365]

@@LookingForEntertainment112 Well there you go then. Most things I order online from the UK take around 6 days to get to Thailand. So when a company takes 11 days to even get around to posting a package, it's very frustrating. Search for 'TrustPilot Crimson Guitars' , select 1 and 2 star reviews and you'll see this is just the way they do business - we're far from the only customers to be treated to a long wait. Whilst I'm not an impatient man, I believe that distance selling requires the buyer to make a leap of faith - paying for something before he or she receives it - which is why it's never a good idea to just leave orders waiting in an in tray for a week or two before filling them. Or to take 5 days to reply to an email.

[@vince89503]

I bought a vintage modified squire jaguar not too long ago and... Dryest fretboard I have ever seen. No big issue , but I do wonder what the thought process is on that in Indonesia.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

The Crimson oils and rubs and stuff are all top notch. They just come in haute cuisine portions. Too small to satisfy. I'd rather have larger bottles that make you feel you can pour plenty on it, rather then motel shampoo tiny, which makes you feel you should ration it.

[@motaman8074]

Always thought that when I'd see those tiny bottles.

[@zeffneeson7599]

I use mineral oil get a pretty big bottle for like £8 does the job perfectly and lasts for a very long time 😁

[@motaman8074]

@@zeffneeson7599 excellent idea

[@alexcorona]

Every manufacturer does that, honestly a little goes a long way. If you go overboard you’re just wasting it….

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

@@alexcorona Have you seen how much Ben and the Crimson folks pour on their guitars? Almost like there is infinite oil in those tiny flasks.

[@Furtheronmusic]

Just to say Chris Buck has been rocking one of these (in the Desert Sand finish) on the recent Cardinal Black gigs and he's a man who knows a thing or two about good guitars.

[@andrewbecker3700]

He likes P90s quite a bit and could make even the most mediocre model cry and scream. His Yamaha goldtop is his main squeeze.

[@DOESlab]

His is the aged vintage model, with a few different appointments here and there

[@elderchildren]

@@DOESlab maple fretboard, much better overall i reckon

[@g.koch.]

​@@andrewbecker3700Jazzmaster pickups are no P90 tho..

[@andrewbecker3700]

@@g.koch. No, they're quite different indeed. Way more focused. Jangly some say.

[@ant1sokolow]

Indian Laurel, that Squire tend to use nowadays have always that cold grayish almost chalky surface. Linseed oil may be use as it impart some warming golden yellow hue . It's a bit more tricky to apply than guitar formulas but works very well..

[@Guitarnivore]

The consistency of the laurel fretboards is kind of weird lately. It used to see they were all very dry and rough, but I have a contemporary jaguar with the laurel and you'd swear it was rosewood, it's so smooth. But on this one (I also have this guitar) not so much. I even have a contemporary active jazzmaster that is kind of in between the 40th and the jag. I used to use boiled linseed and I agree it works well, even mixed with a little lemon oil, but I hate the smell of it.

[@GrumpyOldGit60]

Not P90 pickups...

[@wombat6]

I've seen SO many pictures of cheaper guitars that come with laurel boards now. They always have this very light color in the pictures that makes me think they just don't oil them at all.

[@kieronbowker9983]

Never checked out these oils. Big Lemoil fan here. What's the diff?

[@andytraverse]

I binned my lemon oil. Turns out its cheap crap with lemon scent added. Walnut oil from a supermarket is excellent on most fretboards.

[@timc7345]

Had the strings off (not replaced) and didn't check if the frets were level, really?????

[@emptyMan0]

You have possibly opened a can of worms by saying P90s 😀

[@ReVeRbx-fe5wr]

Why would an Indian laurel fretboard need oiling? Sounds to me that oil on this fretboard is not the appropriate approach. Maybe stain it and then wax it

[@Schwig]

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, but lately I've noticed a lot of people have started calling Jazzmaster pick-ups "P90s." Did I just miss a consensus change? Cause I was always under the impression that JM pups and P90s were related by being larger single coils, but distinct enough to have different names? Or maybe a UK vs US thing? Like I said, this isn't aimed at anyone in particular, I'm just trying to make sense of an observation.

[@rivulus]

Maybe because some squier jazzmasters like the jmascis and the affinity have pickups with a jazzmaster bobbin but with steel slugs and two bar magnets glued on either side resulting in a p90 in jazzmaster disguise. Also, a lot of cheap jazzmater clones use p90’s.

[@Schwig]

@@rivulus That seems fair enough.

[@peterellstrom3620]

Sorry to say, but there is a guitar museum in Sweden! You should visit it! 😊

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

we absolutely know about that one, and can't wait to visit.. but that doesn't mean we don't deserve one here too :) Also, we're going to be doing a hell of a lot more online than they do.

[@peterellstrom3620]

Of course you do! And I will visit that one too in the future! Do they do anything online? ! 🤔😁

[@alexcorona]

We have a museum in the US also.

[@chrissilman8495]

What has been going on with the GGG website? It won't load. Been like that for days.

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

We have been having a problem with the website but everything should now be working. DC

[@chrissilman8495]

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars It's still having problems loading some images but it's working. Thanks for the update!

[@jasontotz]

Hi mate, what do you think about the neck pocket angle? Do you think it needs some shimming?

[@sporadicamnesic]

Lol, that comment about Ben using the fret board restorative on his head 🤣. That's why he stole your bottle, Josh!

[@alpeterson]

I’ve emailed the GGG email and gotten no response, but what happened to PayPal as an option on the website? I was entering draws using it and now that option is gone. I don’t use credit cards so losing PayPal means I’m no longer able to participate. Which reeeeeeally sucks because I wanted to buy tickets for a bunch of the GGBO guitars.

[@garagemasterguitars]

PayPal stopped it.

[@PaulCooksStuff]

Paypal T&C's don't allow it to be used for lotteries/raffles/draws. They're strict on gambling. Ben mentioned in the last live draw stream they've gone through a couple of other payment providers since with a similar outcome. Many payment providers pull the plug if they view it as gambling. So it's unlikely PayPal will come back. If you're overseas he said they're ironing out an international multi-currency system with the current payment provider. Jammin-Jesse in stream chat said it worked ok for him in usa yesterday, so it's at least partially up and running. I don't know if it helps you (and I haven't confirmed it works, especially if you're overseas) but you can buy prepaid credit cards that are almost like shop gift cards. MasterCard (for one) do them - they say they're accepted everywhere a mastercard credit card would be. In *theory* it ought to work on the giveaway site. Jesse did mention in stream chat the route he used, but I can't remember it.

[@alpeterson]

@@PaulCooksStuff thanks for fillin me in, I guess I’ll have to do the prepaid card thing because I’m over in Canada and I wanna participate.

[@markseymour8365]

Don't they accept debit cards then?

[@alpeterson]

@@markseymour8365 credit cards only at the moment.

[@pukkimi]

I bought my spouse's youngest son a squier vintage 70 strato two years ago. It was on 20% discount because the store was closing down. But even at full price of 425 euros it would be a great bang for buck. The fit and finish was worlds apart from a Mexican made HSS strato that I bought ten years earlier. Fret board was great, frets and fret ends felt amazing, it was ready to play as it was.

[@DougHolmes]

Please, please please add a few L-H guitars to the auctions

[@flapjack413]

Gaaaah.... Jazzmaster pickups ARE NOT P-90'S!!!!!!

[@DarwinStearns]

They're not even close to P-90s, are they? 👍

[@jamesgravis9658]

Thank you for saying this. Fuarrrrrrrrrr

[@flapjack413]

@@DarwinStearns Not at all in construction or tone. The only similarity is the shape of the pickup cover. Jazzys use a very short in height (like 3-4mm), and wide coil wind, and slug magnets. P-90's are a taller, narrower coil wind, and use two bar magnets, one on each side of the threaded slugs, beneath the coil.

[@MarkRigler]

If only it had jazzmaster pick ups instead of p90s

[@voidmstr]

I bid on this one. Thanks for your cool work!

[@westvalleyguitars]

Guys sorry about the P90's slip! You're totally right, Jazzmaster pickups are NOT P90's! As always, appreciate your keen eyes

[@gregoryh4601]

Josh. How you going to Sell Guitar 🎸 without playing in Alive?

[@ectoplasm]

I got a Competition Blue Squier Mustang from CME a while back and it likewise came with a very, very, very dire fretboard (also indian laurel). Despite how dire Indian laurel fretboards can look coming from the factory, once tended to, they look a lot better than the pau ferro fretboards you see on some Fenders.

[@Mrcabe]

Sharp as in Sharp dressed man

[@oneminutebugs]

Love our dry sense of humour Josh! "... like Elaine from HR at a Christmas party!" 😂

[@gnvtr20s]

there’s a typo in the title i do believe. 😅

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

sorry - fixed. DC

[@JiltedMuse]

I have this guitar and love it, but had the exact same issue. Glad all it needed was a good oiling. Might have to name mine “Elaine” now. 😂😂😂

[@frank1672]

Has the guy with the tattooed head grown his hair he sounds just like him and his mannerism's incidentally there not P90's' Hey-Ho Great guitar for the Bucks

[@awilliamson3140]

I got a Squier FSR CV 70's Jaguar last year and that also had a very dry laurel fretboard when it arrived. A couple of applications of a proprietory lemon oil compound has darkened it up nicely. I'm well impressed with the qeneral quality of Classic Vibe Squiers nowadays, athough the nut was cut a bit high on mine. I also "rescued" a cheap Tanglewood AS39 "Chicago" jazz box from a Cash Converters recently (made in China between 2003 & 2006) and that also looked to have a dry laurel fretboard. As an experiment I used some Ronseal Indian Rosewood wood dye cut with a bit of the lemon oil to help penetration on it. That has also worked well, the neck has darkened and has a warmer tone than the natural laurel. I think the key on both these guitars was that there seemed to be no treatment or coating on the wood to prevent the oil soaking in. I've had less success with the Fender Pau Ferro boards, which seem to have something (a tint?) sprayed on them.

[@markseymour8365]

How was this in any way a teardown? Ooh the frets are well finished but the fretboard is dry. Hardly in depth.

[@CrimsonCustomGuitars]

It wasn't, we're trying a few different formats and this was supposed to be a more concise and quick thing than a full Teardown

[@markseymour8365]

@@CrimsonCustomGuitars Okay sorry - it was the teardown hashtag you used that led me to expect something else.

[@STUCASHX]

😉It's olny been up 3 hours at this point so I'm sure the typo in the description will be fixed soon. 😁

[@malcolmhardwick4258]

olny ? Squire ?? Squier !!!

[@ptrisonic]

The pick ups should not be P90s.....

[@davidwellings2783]

Great stuff Josh! Delivered with the care and panache we’ve all come to love and expect, nice guitar too! 🥰🥰🍷🍷🎸🎸

[@BoojayDeeth]

Jazzmasters don't have P90 pickups.

[@geddylee501]

300 man that's cheap, my standard hh tele neck, nut and saddle were in a way worse state when I bought it

[@Guitarnivore]

They were on sale here in the states for about that too, but now they're back up to $599. 😐

[@geddylee501]

@@Guitarnivore Blimey, let's just double the price eh. Bit steep for a squire 🎢

[@PaulCooksStuff]

Fender were blowing out surplus Squier anniversary stock during Black Friday. They've mostly gone back to original prices now, though a few stragglers still seem to be out there. Thomann still have blue jazz masters at £315.

[@Guitarnivore]

@@PaulCooksStuff Unfortunately I bought my back in June at full price.

[@geddylee501]

@@Guitarnivore 😖 never mind, you'll make it up somewhere else

[@B.McAllister]

Second round of covid. So luthier videos it is hahah.

[@chrisggoodwin777]

3:10 every girl's crazy for a shap dressed fret 😉

[@dbb124]

Don’t waste your money on that crimson oil. Buy some mineral oil, that’s all it is. All these expensive fretboard oils are 99% mineral oil.

[@andytraverse]

What's the point of making a fuss over a cheap and nasty Squier guitar. We already have cheaper affordable Fender models made in the far East, why do we need to go cheaper still? A guitar should last a lifetime and is a great investment, yet this obsession with a race to the bottom/ I want something for nothing.

[@crswro1690]

tell us you are a gibson snob without telling us you are a gibson snob.