Squier Jazzmaster 40th Anniv LPB 5-stars Reviews

Nice!

For a guitar for 400€, this Jazzmaster is just great! You get: A wonderful appearance, good build quality (despite scratching frets, which is solved in one evening) and a very comfortable case shape.

Great value, great guitar.

Treated myself to a new guitar after a decade of messing around with a Gibson SG, an Ibanez 7 string and a MIM Strat.

Following my guts I decided to go for these 40th annyversary models and boy, do they deliver.

The guitar came overall great out of the box, totally playable but, of course, if you know a bit how this guitar is supposed to be played and set up, it quickly turns from good to great. The neck is smooth, no sharp ends; the bridge and tremolo do their job well and the machine heads keep the tuning even under heavy abuse.

The neck pickup is absolutely lovely. Clean, dirty, distorted, it absolutely crushes anything.

The bridge one is... a bit weak for my tases (hence the 4 stars in sound) but nothing a good swap might overcome.

The gold tinted hardware is a bit... much, but after some abuse it "ages" wonderfully.

All in all I'd make some mods here and there to fit my playing style but it's simply a gorgeous, great guitar

AWESOME GUITAR

excellent guitar. really comfortabe and a great sound. love it

happy I bought this

Love this guitar, I put some weird and extremely thick strings on this guitar and sometimes tune them really really tight, but the guitar holds up well. the neck is perfect, not thin but not too thick to where it becomes obtrusive. The tremolo and bridge actually stay in tune extremely well. I abuse this guitar so much, and am always surprised to see it be relatively in tune after so much hitting and pulling of the strings. Also, unlike many other cheap guitars, this guitar is a perfect weight.

Only a few gripes, the electronics are a bit fragile. The rhythm switch after a few weeks of use sort of became floppy. the insides of it kind of bend out of place. I fixed it but after a day it's floppy again. Keep in mind though that I play very violently so by accidently hitting the switch a few times it may have broken it, so if you have a lighter hand the switch will probably be just fine. Also the pickup selector switch feels fine but it stopped working and made the pickups go silent, but again I also hit the switch really hard and its an easy fix to just push the two pins in the switch closer to the centerpiece.

so basically, this guitar is fantastic, buy it, but if your playing style is very aggressive I recommend switching the rhythm switch, or just completely remove the rhythm circuit from the guitar like I have done. And you may want to consider switching out the pickup selector. But everything else except these tiny easily fixable details, everything else is perfect and of high quality.