HB JA-60 OW : What a true Jazzmaster should be

Awesome guitar for clean and crunchy sounds. Looks sick, sounds sick, built with decent quality. I can recommend it without any hesitations. Maybe will order some other HB instruments in visible future.

Pluses:

- Overall look. Cool vintagy painting, binding. Even pau-ferro fretboard matches guitar nicely.

- Weight of instrument and wood resonating. Even unplugged sounds loud and narly. Can assume that materials are quite good. Back of the neck without too much finishing feels great.

- Pickups. These are no ordinary P90, more like fat-wound single-coils. Sounds spanky and bright. Even unique.

- Overall built quality. Truss-rod was setup properly. Good set of strings, sounds fresh from the box.

- Price. Nuff said. 120 euros ...

Minuses:

- Very fat and narrow neck profile. Really feels like bassball bat. I'm kinda used to it, but the neck is not gonna fit for ibanezy shredders.

- Vintage tuners. Would prefer standard grover tuners. But they look cool, do the job properly.

- The last frets are not rounded properly. Maybe it's just my only guitar's issue. But it's not that bad.

- Pickup height adjustment is quite difficult. Intonation wasn't setup properly from the box, string height was quite excessive. Fretboard was quite dry, needed lemon oil. But these issues are not fatal, but quite fixable.